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We use HIP-NN, a neural network architecture that excels at predicting molecular energies, to predict atomic charges. The charge predictions are accurate over a wide range of molecules (both small and large) and for a diverse set of charge…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) provide a computationally efficient alternative to quantum mechanical simulations for predicting material properties. Message-passing graph neural networks, commonly used in these MLIPs, rely…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Moin Uddin Maruf , Sungmin Kim , Zeeshan Ahmad

Material characterization in nano-mechanical tests requires precise interatomic potentials for the computation of atomic energies and forces with near-quantum accuracy. For such purposes, we develop a robust neural-network interatomic…

Neural network potentials (NNPs) enable large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of systems containing >10,000 atoms with the accuracy comparable to ab initio methods and play a crucial role in material studies. Although NNPs are…

Predictive simulation of vibrational spectra of complex condensed-phase and interface systems with thousands of degrees of freedom has long been a challenging task of modern condensed matter theory. In this work, fourth-generation…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Md Omar Faruque , Dil K. Limbu , Nathan London , Mohammad R. Momeni

Machine learning potentials (MLP) have revolutionized the field of atomistic simulations by describing the atomic interactions with the accuracy of electronic structure methods at a small fraction of the costs. Most current MLPs construct…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Moritz Gubler , Jonas A. Finkler , Moritz R. Schäfer , Jörg Behler , Stefan Goedecker

The contribution of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) to the properties of various hydrogen-bound systems, including biomolecules, is increasingly recognized. Despite the development of many acceleration techniques, the computational overhead…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Iryna Zaporozhets , Félix Musil , Venkat Kapil , Cecilia Clementi

Molecular dynamics simulations demand an unprecedented combination of accuracy and scalability to tackle grand challenges in catalysis and materials design. To bridge this gap, we present AlphaNet, a local-frame-based equivariant model that…

The molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) is a key quantity for describing and predicting intermolecular and ion-molecule interactions. Here, we assess the ability of machine-learning (ML) models to infer the MEP, based on the equivariant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Kadri Muuga , Lisanne Knijff , Chao Zhang

Path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations are crucial for accurately capturing nuclear quantum effects in materials. However, their computational intensity and reliance on multiple software packages often limit their applicability…

Gallium oxide (Ga2O3) is a wide-bandgap semiconductor with promising applications in high-power and high-frequency electronics. However, its complex polymorphic nature poses substantial challenges for fundamental studies, particularly in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Yaohui Gu , Binbo Li , Lingyang Jiang , Yuhui Hu , Wenqiang Liu , Lijun Xu , Pengfei Zhai , Jie Liu , Jinglai Duan

The atomic-scale response of inhomogeneous fluids at interfaces and surrounding solute particles plays a critical role in governing chemical, electrochemical and biological processes at such interfaces. Classical molecular dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-28 Kamron Fazel , Nima Karimitari , Tanooj Shah , Christopher Sutton , Ravishankar Sundararaman

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the development of machine learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations with applications in many fields from chemistry to materials science. While most current MLPs are based…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Tsz Wai Ko , Jonas A. Finkler , Stefan Goedecker , Jörg Behler

Diagnosing the internal state of Li-ion batteries is critical for battery research, operation of real-world systems, and prognostic evaluation of remaining lifetime. By using physics-based models to perform probabilistic parameter…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-04-06 Malik Hassanaly , Corey R. Randall , Peter J. Weddle , Paul J. Gasper , Conlain Kelly , Tanvir R. Tanim , Kandler Smith

The core of molecular dynamics simulation fundamentally lies in the interatomic potential. Traditional empirical potentials lack accuracy, while first-principles methods are computationally prohibitive. Machine learning interatomic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Shuyu Bi , Zhede Zhao , Qiangchao Sun , Tao Hu , Xionggang Lu , Hongwei Cheng

We present a new interatomic potential for solids and liquids called Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential (SNAP). The SNAP potential has a very general form and uses machine-learning techniques to reproduce the energies, forces, and stress…

While machine-learned interatomic potentials offer near-quantum-mechanical accuracy for atomistic simulations, many are material-specific or computationally intensive, limiting their broader use. Here we introduce NEP89, a foundation model…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) with broad chemical flexibility are important for atomistic simulations of compositionally complex materials such as high-entropy alloys. Here, we study two state-of-the-art MLIP frameworks,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Fei Shuang , Penghua Ying , Kai Liu , Zixiong Wei , Fengxian Liu , Zheyong Fan , Minqiang Jiang , Poulumi Dey

Water's unique hydrogen-bonding network and anomalous properties pose significant challenges for accurately modeling its structural, thermodynamic, and transport behavior across varied conditions. Although machine-learned potentials have…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Ke Xu , Ting Liang , Nan Xu , Penghua Ying , Shunda Chen , Ning Wei , Jianbin Xu , Zheyong Fan

Electrostatics govern charge transfer and reactivity in materials. Yet, most foundation potentials (FPs) either do not explicitly model such interactions or pay a prohibitive scaling penalty to do so. Here, we introduce charge-equilibrated…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-12 Tsz Wai Ko , Runze Liu , Adesh Rohan Mishra , Zihan Yu , Ji Qi , Shyue Ping Ong