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Even though thermodynamic energy-based crystal structure prediction (CSP) has revolutionized materials discovery, the energy-driven CSP approaches often struggle to identify experimentally realizable metastable materials synthesized through…

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Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) achieve near ab initio accuracy at a fraction of the cost of quantum-mechanical simulations, yet they remain prone to silent failures on out-of-distribution configurations, making principled…

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Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for developing machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) in predictive atomistic simulations. Conformal prediction (CP) is a statistical framework that constructs prediction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Cheuk Hin Ho , Christoph Ortner , Yangshuai Wang

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become widely used tools in atomistic simulations. For much of the history of this field, the most commonly employed architectures were based on short-ranged atomic energy contributions,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 William J. Baldwin , Ilyes Batatia , Martin Vondrák , Johannes T. Margraf , Gábor Csányi

Interatomic potentials are key to uncovering microscopic structure-property relationships, essential for multiscale simulations and high-throughput experiments. For metallic glasses, their disordered atomic structure makes the development…

A Spectral Neighbor Analysis (SNAP) machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) has been developed for simulations of carbon at extreme pressures (up to 5 TPa) and temperatures (up to 20,000 K). This was achieved using a large database of…

This work demonstrates that fine-tuning transforms foundational machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) to achieve consistent, near-ab initio accuracy across diverse architectures. Benchmarking five leading MLIP frameworks (MACE,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Jonas Hänseroth , Aaron Flötotto , Muhammad Nawaz Qaisrani , Christian Dreßler

Stable or metastable crystal structures of assembled atoms can be predicted by finding the global or local minima of the energy surface within a broad space of atomic configurations. Generally, this requires repeated first-principles energy…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have revolutionized computational materials science by bridging the gap between quantum mechanical accuracy and classical simulation efficiency, enabling unprecedented exploration of materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-17 Ardavan Mehdizadeh , Peter Schindler

Universal machine-learned interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) offer a promising approach to performing atomistic simulations at near-DFT accuracy with greatly reduced computational cost. Here, we present a new high-temperature benchmarking…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-29 Connor W. Edwards , Jack D. Evans

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are routinely used to model diverse atomistic phenomena, yet parameterizing them to accurately capture solid-state phase transformations remains difficult. We present error metrics and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Lorenzo Piersante , Anirudh Raju Natarajan

The ability to reliably predict the structures and stabilities of a molecular crystal and its polymorphs without any prior experimental information would be an invaluable tool for a number of fields, with specific and immediate applications…

Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) require vast amounts of atomic structure data to learn forces and energies, and their performance continues to improve with training set size. Meanwhile, the even greater quantities of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Manasa Kaniselvan , Benjamin Kurt Miller , Meng Gao , Juno Nam , Daniel S. Levine

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is now increasingly used in the discovery of novel materials with applications in diverse industries. However, despite decades of developments, the problem is far from being solved. With the progress of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-13 Lai Wei , Qin Li , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Jianjun Hu

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is crucial for identifying stable crystal structures in given systems and is a prerequisite for computational atomistic simulations. Recent advances in neural network potentials (NNPs) have reduced the…

The Self-Consistent Harmonic Approximation (SCHA) has been utilized to investigate quantum and thermal phase transitions within magnetic models and, more recently, in spintronic applications. The SCHA methodology involves utilizing simple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-25 G. C. Villela , A. R. Moura

We present a high-throughput, end-to-end pipeline for organic crystal structure prediction (CSP) -- the problem of identifying the stable crystal structures that will form from a given molecule based only on its molecular composition. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Amit Kadan , Kevin Ryczko , Andrew Wildman , Rodrigo Wang , Adrian Roitberg , Takeshi Yamazaki

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) has emerged as one of the most important approaches for discovering new materials. CSP algorithms based on evolutionary algorithms and particle swarm optimization have discovered a great number of new…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are used to estimate potential energy surfaces (PES) from ab initio calculations, providing near quantum-level accuracy with reduced computational costs. However, the high cost of assembling…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-13 Jaesun Kim , Jisu Kim , Jaehoon Kim , Jiho Lee , Yutack Park , Youngho Kang , Seungwu Han

Machine learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have emerged as powerful tools for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with their competitive accuracy and computational efficiency. However, MLIPs are often observed to exhibit un-physical…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Qianyu Zheng , Victor Fung