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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

The rapid development of computational materials science powered by machine learning (ML) is gradually leading to solutions to several previously intractable scientific problems. One of the most prominent is machine learning interatomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-27 Xiao Fu , Jing Xu , Qifan Yang , Xuhe Gong , Jingchen Lian , Liqi Wang , Zibin Wang , Ruijuan Xiao , Hong Li

Universal Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (uMLIPs) enable atomistic simulations and high-throughput screening at scales far beyond those accessible with density functional theory (DFT). However, most existing uMLIPs are trained on…

Uncertainty estimations for machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are crucial for quantifying model error and identifying informative training samples in active learning strategies. In this study, we evaluate uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Matthias Holzenkamp , Dongyu Lyu , Ulrich Kleinekathöfer , Peter Zaspel

Universal machine-learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) have become powerful tools for accelerating computational materials discovery by replacing expensive first-principles calculations in crystal structure prediction (CSP). However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-04 Yuqi An , Zhenbin Wang

In many cases, the predictions of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) can be interpreted as a sum of body-ordered contributions, which is explicit when the model is directly built on neighbor density correlation descriptors, and…

The MechElastic Python package evaluates the mechanical and elastic properties of bulk and 2D materials using the elastic coefficient matrix ($C_{ij}$) obtained from any ab-initio density-functional theory (DFT) code. The current version of…

Molten salts are crucial for clean energy applications, yet exploring their thermophysical properties across diverse chemical space remains challenging. We present the development of a machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) called…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-30 Chen Shen , Siamak Attarian , Yixuan Zhang , Hongbin Zhang , Mark Asta , Izabela Szlufarska , Dane Morgan

The promise of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) has led to an abundance of public quantum mechanical (QM) training datasets. The quality of an MLIP is directly limited by the accuracy of the energies and atomic forces in the…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become powerful tools to extend molecular simulations beyond the limits of quantum methods, offering near-quantum accuracy at much lower computational cost. Yet, developing reliable MLIPs…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-30 Adam Lahouari , Jutta Rogal , Mark E. Tuckerman

Solidification governs the microstructure and, therefore, the mechanical response of metal components, yet the atomistic details of nucleation and defect formation are often difficult to determine experimentally. Molecular dynamics can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Ian Störmer , Julija Zavadlav

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

Understanding the mechanical properties of solid-state materials at the atomic scale is crucial for developing novel materials. For example, amorphous LiSi alloys are attractive anode materials for solid-state Li-ion batteries but face…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-15 Zixiong Wei , Nongnuch Artrith

Machine-learning interatomic potential (MLIP) has been of growing interest as a useful method to describe the energetics of systems of interest. In the present study, we examine the accuracy of linearized pairwise MLIPs and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 Akira Takahashi , Atsuto Seko , Isao Tanaka

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have transformed materials discovery by leveraging graph neural networks (GNNs) to predict material properties with near density functional theory (DFT) accuracy. While large-scale pretrained…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-29 Rushikesh Pawar , Harshit Rawat , Ayush Kumar , Phani Motamarri

Molten salts are promising candidates in numerous clean energy applications, where challenges in experimental methods limit knowledge of their safety-critical temperature-properties correlations. Herein, we developed and employed machine…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Rajni Chahal , Luke D Gibson , Santanu Roy , Vyacheslav S Bryantsev

First-principles atomistic simulations are essential for understanding complex material phenomena but are fundamentally limited by their computational cost. While Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) have drastically improved…

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 learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable more efficient molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with ab initio accuracy, which have been used in various domains of physical science. However, distribution shift between training and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Taoyong Cui , Chenyu Tang , Dongzhan Zhou , Yuqiang Li , Xingao Gong , Wanli Ouyang , Mao Su , Shufei Zhang

Machine learning models are changing the paradigm of molecular modeling, which is a fundamental tool for material science, chemistry, and computational biology. Of particular interest is the inter-atomic potential energy surface (PES). Here…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Linfeng Zhang , Jiequn Han , Han Wang , Wissam A. Saidi , Roberto Car , Weinan E