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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…

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Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become a mainstay in computationally-guided materials science, surpassing traditional force fields due to their flexible functional form and superior accuracy in reproducing physical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Igor Vorotnikov , Fedor Romashov , Nikita Rybin , Maxim Rakhuba , Ivan S. Novikov

Aluminum oxide (alumina, Al$_2$O$_3$) exists in various structures and has broad industrial applications. While the crystal structure of $\alpha$-Al$_2$O$_3$ is well-established, those of transitional aluminas remain highly debated. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-11 Lei Zhang , Wenhao Luo , Renxi Liu , Mohan Chen , Zhongbo Yan , Kun Cao

Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) can be used to train accurate machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs), enabling molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of complex materials on time scales and for system sizes previously unattainable. VMC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-11 Giacomo Tenti , Kousuke Nakano , Michele Casula

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) based on message passing neural networks hold promise to enable large-scale atomistic simulations of complex materials with ab initio accuracy. A number of MLIPs trained on energies and forces…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-09 Mikkel Ohm Sauer , Peder Meisner Lyngby , Kristian Sommer Thygesen

Multi-orbital Hubbard model Hamiltonians for the undoped parent compounds of the Fe-pnictide superconductors are here investigated using mean-field techniques. For a realistic four-orbital model, our results show the existence of an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Rong Yu , Kien T. Trinh , Adriana Moreo , Maria Daghofer , José A. Riera , Stephan Haas , Elbio Dagotto

We propose a self-consistent site-dependent Hubbard $U$ approach for DFT+$U$ calculations of defects in complex transition-metal oxides, using Hubbard parameters computed via linear-response theory. The formation of a defect locally…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-04 Chiara Ricca , Iurii Timrov , Matteo Cococcioni , Nicola Marzari , Ulrich Aschauer

We present an orbital-resolved extension of the Hubbard $U$ correction to density-functional theory (DFT). Compared to the conventional shell-averaged approach, the prediction of energetic, electronic and structural properties is strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-18 Eric Macke , Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Lucio Colombi Ciacchi

Training of general-purpose machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) relies on large datasets with properties usually computed with density functional theory (DFT). A pre-requisite for accurate MLIPs is that the DFT data are well…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Domantas Kuryla , Fabian Berger , Gábor Csányi , Angelos Michaelides

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-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have rapidly progressed in accuracy, speed, and data efficiency in recent years. However, training robust MLIPs in multicomponent systems still remains a challenge. In this work, we train a…

Recent developments in machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have empowered even non-experts in machine learning to train MLIPs for accelerating materials simulations. However, the current literature lacks clear standards for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Tristan Maxson , Ademola Soyemi , Benjamin W. J. Chen , Tibor Szilvási

We present a first-principles investigation of the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of pyrolusite ($\beta$-MnO$_2$) using conventional and extended Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory (DFT+$U$ and DFT+$U$+$V$). The…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-06 Ruchika Mahajan , Iurii Timrov , Nicola Marzari , Arti Kashyap

Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIP) are a novel in silico approach for molecular property prediction, creating an alternative to disrupt the accuracy/speed trade-off of empirical force fields and density functional theory (DFT).…

DFT+U provides a convenient, cost-effective correction for the self-interaction error (SIE) that arises when describing correlated electronic states using conventional approximate density functional theory (DFT). The success of a DFT+U(+J)…

Twisted layered van-der-Waals materials often exhibit unique electronic and optical properties absent in their non-twisted counterparts. Unfortunately, predicting such properties is hindered by the difficulty in determining the atomic…

A linear regression-based machine learned interatomic potential (MLIP) was developed for the silicon-carbon system. The MLIP was predominantly trained on structures discovered through a genetic algorithm, encompassing the entire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Michael MacIsaac , Salil Bavdekar , Douglas Spearot , Ghatu Subhash

Foundation machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are trained on overlapping chemical spaces, yet their latent representations remain model-specific. Here, we show that independently developed MLIPs exhibit statistically consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-08 Zhenzhu Li , Aron Walsh

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are routinely used atomic simulations, but generating databases of atomic configurations used in fitting these models is a laborious process, requiring significant computational and human…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-26 Connor Allen , Albert P. Bartók

The rapid development of universal machine learning potentials (uMLPs) has enabled efficient, accurate predictions of diverse material properties across broad chemical spaces. While their capability for modeling phonon properties is…

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