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We develop a neuroevolution-potential (NEP) framework for generating neural network based machine-learning potentials. They are trained using an evolutionary strategy for performing large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Zheyong Fan , Zezhu Zeng , Cunzhi Zhang , Yanzhou Wang , Haikuan Dong , Yue Chen , Tapio Ala-Nissila

Simulating interactions between non-spherical colloidal particles is computationally challenging due to the complex dependency of forces and energies on their geometry. We introduce and evaluate both descriptor-based and end-to-end models…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-22 B. Rusen Argun , Antonia Statt

Interatomic potentials are essential for driving molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, directly impacting the reliability of predictions regarding the physical and chemical properties of materials. In recent years, machine-learned potentials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-20 Penghua Ying , Cheng Qian , Rui Zhao , Yanzhou Wang , Feng Ding , Shunda Chen , Zheyong Fan

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) such as neuroevolution potentials (NEP) combine quantum-mechanical accuracy with computational efficiency significantly accelerate atomistic dynamic simulations. Trained by derivative-free…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-14 Hongfu Huang , Junhao Peng , Kaiqi Li , Jian Zhou , Zhimei Sun

We present our latest advancements of machine-learned potentials (MLPs) based on the neuroevolution potential (NEP) framework introduced in [Fan et al., Phys. Rev. B 104, 104309 (2021)] and their implementation in the open-source package…

In a previous paper [Fan Z \textit{et al}. 2021 Phys. Rev. B, \textbf{104}, 104309], we developed the neuroevolution potential (NEP), a framework of training neural network based machine-learning potentials using a natural evolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Zheyong Fan

The $\text{Cu}_7\text{P}\text{S}_6$ compound has garnered significant attention due to its potential in thermoelectric applications. In this study, we introduce a neuroevolution potential (NEP), trained on a dataset generated from ab initio…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Junlan Liu , Qian Yin , Mengshu He , Jun Zhou

Infrared and Raman spectroscopy are widely used for the characterization of gases, liquids, and solids, as the spectra contain a wealth of information concerning in particular the dynamics of these systems. Atomic scale simulations can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Nan Xu , Petter Rosander , Christian Schäfer , Eric Lindgren , Nicklas Österbacka , Mandi Fang , Wei Chen , Yi He , Zheyong Fan , Paul Erhart

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) achieve near first-principles accuracy but often fail for atomic environments outside the training distribution. Active learning can mitigate this limitation; however, its application to large-scale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Junjie Wang , Shuning Pan , Haoting Zhang , Qiuhan Jia , Chi Ding , Zheyong Fan , Jian Sun

Machine learned interatomic potentials, particularly equivariant message-passing (MP) models, have demonstrated high fidelity in representing first-principles data, revolutionizing computational studies in materials science, biophysics, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Yaolong Zhang , Hua Guo

This work presents Neural Equivariant Interatomic Potentials (NequIP), an E(3)-equivariant neural network approach for learning interatomic potentials from ab-initio calculations for molecular dynamics simulations. While most contemporary…

Machine learning potentials have become an important tool for atomistic simulations in many fields, from chemistry via molecular biology to materials science. Most of the established methods, however, rely on local properties and are thus…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-17 Tsz Wai Ko , Jonas A. Finkler , Stefan Goedecker , Jörg Behler

The accurate description of electrostatic interactions remains a challenging problem for fitted potential-energy functions. The commonly used fixed partial-charge approximation fails to reproduce the electrostatic potential at short range…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Moritz Thürlemann , Lennard Böselt , Sereina Riniker

We present design and implementation of a novel neural network potential (NNP) and its combination with an electrostatic embedding scheme, commonly used within the context of hybrid quantum-mechanical/molecular-mechanical (QM/MM)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Felix Pultar , Moritz Thuerlemann , Igor Gordiy , Eva Doloszeski , Sereina Riniker

Machine learning potentials (MLP) allow to perform large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with about the same accuracy as electronic structure calculations provided that the selected model is able to capture the relevant physics of the…

The interaction of condensed phase systems with external electric fields is crucial in myriad processes in nature and technology ranging from the field-directed motion of cells (galvanotaxis), to energy storage and conversion systems…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Kit Joll , Philipp Schienbein , Kevin M. Rosso , Jochen Blumberger

A neuroevolution potential (NEP) for the ternary $\alpha$-Fe--C--H system was developed based on a database generated from spin-polarized density functional theory (DFT) calculations, achieving empirical potential efficiency with DFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Fan-Shun Meng , Shuhei Shinzato , Zhiqiang Zhao , Jun-Ping Du , Lei Gao , Zheyong Fan , Shigenobu Ogata

Machine-learned coarse-grained (CG) models often suffer from noisy training data, limiting their accuracy and transferability. We propose a method to generate low-noise training data based on the potential of mean force by constraining CG…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Zheyong Fan , Wenjun Zhang , Zhenhao Zhang , Ke Xu , Xuecheng Shao , Haikuan Dong

Simulating water accurately has been a challenge due to the complexity of describing polarization and intermolecular charge transfer. Quantum mechanical (QM) electronic structures provide an accurate description of polarization in response…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Qiujiang Liang , Jun Yang

Electrolyte solutions play critical role in a vast range of important applications, yet an accurate and scalable method of predicting their properties without fitting to experiment has remained out of reach, despite over a century of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Junji Zhang , Joshua Pagotto , Tim Gould , Timothy T. Duignan
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