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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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Anna T. Bui , Stephen J. Cox

Given the power of large language and large vision models, it is of profound and fundamental interest to ask if a foundational model based on data and parameter scaling laws and pre-training strategies is possible for learned simulations of…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have revolutionized molecular and materials modeling, but existing benchmarks suffer from data leakage, limited transferability, and an over-reliance on error-based metrics tied to specific…

Machine-learning models of atomic-scale interactions achieve the accuracy of the quantum mechanical calculations on which they are trained, but at a dramatically lower computational cost. Their predictions can be made trustworthy by…

Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) offer a powerful combination of abilities for accelerating theoretical spectroscopy calculations utilising both ensemble sampling and trajectory post-processing for inclusion of vibronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Jacob Eller , Nicholas D. M. Hine

We present a benchmark designed to evaluate the predictive capabilities of universal machine learning interatomic potentials across systems of varying dimensionality. Specifically, our benchmark tests zero- (molecules, atomic clusters,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-22 Giulio Benedini , Antoine Loew , Matti Hellstrom , Silvana Botti , Miguel A. L. Marques

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enables molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with ab initio accuracy and has been applied to various fields of physical science. However, the performance and transferability of MLIPs are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Taoyong Cui , Chenyu Tang , Mao Su , Shufei Zhang , Yuqiang Li , Lei Bai , Yuhan Dong , Xingao Gong , Wanli Ouyang

Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) are becoming a central tool in simulation-based chemistry. However, like most deep learning models, MLIPs struggle to make accurate predictions on out-of-distribution data or when trained in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Dario Coscia , Pim de Haan , Max Welling

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIAPs) have emerged as powerful tools for accelerating materials simulations with near-density functional theory (DFT) accuracy. However, despite significant advances, we identify a critical yet…

Though offering unprecedented pathways to molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of technologically-relevant materials and conditions, machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are typically trained for ``simple'' materials and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-09 Nikola Koutná , Shuyao Lin , Lars Hultman , Davide G. Sangiovanni , Paul H. Mayrhofer

Atomistic simulation methods have evolved through successive computational levels, each building upon more fundamental approaches: from quantum mechanics to density functional theory (DFT), and subsequently, to machine learning interatomic…

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a widely used computational method for estimating the energy and behavior of molecules. Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) are models trained to approximate DFT-level energies and forces at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ahmad Ali

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) promise to significantly advance atomistic simulations by delivering quantum-level accuracy for large molecular systems at a fraction of the computational cost of traditional electronic…

Accurate atomistic simulations of gas-surface scattering require potential energy surfaces that remain reliable over broad configurational and energetic ranges while retaining the efficiency needed for extensive trajectory sampling. Here,…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable atomistic simulations with near first-principles accuracy at substantially reduced computational cost, making them powerful tools for large-scale materials modeling. The accuracy of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-11 Yonatan Kurniawan , Mingjian Wen , Ellad B. Tadmor , Mark K. Transtrum

Accurate evaluation of the thermal conductivity of a material can be a challenging task from both experimental and theoretical points of view. In particular for the nanostructured materials, the experimental measurement of thermal…

Examination of thermal expansion of two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials is a challenging theoretical task with either ab-initio or classical molecular dynamics simulations. In this regard, while ab-initio molecular dynamics (AIMD)…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-22 Bohayra Mortazavi , Ali Rajabpour , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk , Alexander V. Shapeev

Training machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) on total energies of molecular clusters using differential or transfer learning is becoming a popular route to extend the accuracy of correlated wave-function theory to condensed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Mikołaj J. Gawkowski , Mingjia Li , Benjamin X. Shi , Venkat Kapil

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are deployed for high-throughput materials screening without formal reliability guarantees. We show that a single MLIP used as a stability filter misses 93% of density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Abhinaba Basu , Pavan Chakraborty

In computational materials science, a common means for predicting macroscopic (e.g., mechanical) properties of an alloy is to define a model using combinations of descriptors that depend on some material properties (elastic constants,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-17 Ivan Novikov , Olga Kovalyova , Alexander Shapeev , Max Hodapp