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Machine learning approaches have recently emerged as powerful tools to probe structure-property relationships in crystals and molecules. Specifically, Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIP) can accurately reproduce first-principles…

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Machine learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are becoming a standard method for DFT-level accurate molecular dynamics simulation and large-scale studies of crystal energetics. Increasingly popular are universal pre-trained potentials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Abhijith S Parackal , Rickard Armiento , Florian Trybel

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) balance high accuracy and lower costs compared to density functional theory calculations, but their performance often depends on the size and diversity of training datasets. Large datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Benjamin Yu , Vincenzo Lordi , Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

We have developed a machine learning-based interatomic potential (MLIP) for the quaternary MoNbTaW (R4) and quinary MoNbTaTiW (R5) high entropy alloys (HEAs). MLIPs enabled accurate high throughput calculations of elastic and mechanical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-25 Anup Pandey , Jonathan Gigax , Reeju Pokharel

Ionic liquids (ILs) are an exciting class of electrolytes finding applications in many areas from energy storage to solvents, where they have been touted as ``designer solvents'' as they can be mixed to precisely tailor the physiochemical…

Local curvature of potential energy surfaces is critical for predicting certain experimental observables of molecules and materials from first principles, yet it remains far beyond reach for complex systems. In this work, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Bangchen Yin , Jian Ouyang , Zhen Fan , Kailai Lin , Hanshi Hu , Dingshun Lv , Weiluo Ren , Hai Xiao , Ji Chen , Changsu Cao

The properties of lithium metal are key parameters in the design of lithium ion and lithium metal batteries. They are difficult to probe experimentally due to the high reactivity and low melting point of lithium as well as the microscopic…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as promising platforms for quantum technologies and optoelectronics, with defects playing a crucial role in their properties. We present a comprehensive density functional theory study of silicon…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-28 Abhirup Patra

Cross-functional fine-tuning of machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) is often treated as a relabeling problem, where configurations generated at one density-functional level are relabeled using a higher-fidelity target…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Yuki Nagai , Bo Thomsen , Motoyuki Shiga

Achieving higher operational voltages, faster charging, and broader temperature ranges for Li-ion batteries necessitates advancements in electrolyte engineering. However, the complexity of optimizing combinations of solvents, salts, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-10 Suyeon Ju , Jinmu You , Gijin Kim , Yutack Park , Hyungmin An , Seungwu Han

This paper introduces an active learning approach to the fitting of machine learning interatomic potentials. Our approach is based on the D-optimality criterion for selecting atomic configurations on which the potential is fitted. It is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Evgeny V. Podryabinkin , Alexander V. Shapeev

Atomistic modeling is a widely employed theoretical method of computational materials science. It has found particular utility in the study of magnetic materials. Initially, magnetic empirical interatomic potentials or spin-polarized…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Tatiana S. Kostiuchenko , Alexander V. Shapeev , Ivan S. Novikov

Divacancy defects in silicon carbide have long-lived electronic spin states and sharp optical transitions, with properties that are similar to the nitrogen-vacancy defect in diamond. We report experiments on 4H-SiC that investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Olger V. Zwier , Danny O'Shea , Alexander R. Onur , Caspar H. van der Wal

Combining the efficiency of semi-empirical potentials with the accuracy of quantum mechanical methods, machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have significantly advanced atomistic modeling in computational materials science and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-20 Jiantao Wang , Peitao Liu , Heyu Zhu , Mingfeng Liu , Hui Ma , Yun Chen , Yan Sun , Xing-Qiu Chen

Long-range electrostatics and polarization remain central obstacles to extending machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) to ionic, polar, and interfacial systems. Here, we introduce a semi-local framework for learning electrostatics…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Dongjin Kim , Daniel S. King , Yoonjae Park , Roya Savoj , Sebastien Hamel , Xiaoyu Wang , Bingqing Cheng

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become a workhorse of modern atomistic simulations, and recently published universal MLIPs, pre-trained on large datasets, have demonstrated remarkable accuracy and generalizability.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-04 Juno Nam , Jiayu Peng , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable accurate atomistic modelling, but reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) remains elusive. In this study, we investigate two UQ strategies, ensemble learning and D-optimality, within…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-06 Fei Shuang , Zixiong Wei , Kai Liu , Wei Gao , Poulumi Dey

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have been widely used to facilitate large-scale molecular simulations with accuracy comparable to ab initio methods. In practice, MLIP-based molecular simulations often encounter the issue of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Han Xu , Taoyong Cui , Chenyu Tang , Jinzhe Ma , Dongzhan Zhou , Yuqiang Li , Xiang Gao , Xingao Gong , Wanli Ouyang , Shufei Zhang , Mao Su

We calculate the free energies of unstable stacking fault (USF) configurations on the glide and shuffle slip planes in silicon as a function of temperature, using the recently developed Environment Dependent Interatomic Potential (EDIP). We…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 M. de Koning , A. Antonelli , Martin Z. Bazant , Efthimios Kaxiras , J. F. Justo

Understanding and predicting the behavior of liquid matter across length scales, using only the microscopic interactions encoded in the Schr\"odinger equation, remains a central challenge in the physical sciences. Achieving this goal…

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