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Accounting for geometry-induced changes in the electronic distribution in molecular simulation is important for capturing effects such as charge flow, charge anisotropy and polarization. Multipolar force fields have demonstrated their…

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A kernel-based method (kernelized minimal distributed charge model - kMDCM) to represent the molecular electrostatic potential (ESP) in terms of off-center point charges whose positions adapts to the molecular geometry. Using Gaussian…

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The molecular dipole moment ($\boldsymbol{\mu}$) is a central quantity in chemistry. It is essential in predicting infrared and sum-frequency generation spectra, as well as induction and long-range electrostatic interactions. Furthermore,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Max Veit , David M. Wilkins , Yang Yang , Robert A. DiStasio , Michele Ceriotti

Distributed point charge models (DCM) and their minimal variants (MDCM) have been integrated with tools widely used for condensed-phase simulations, including a virial-based barostat and a slow-growth algorithm for thermodynamic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Mike Devereux , Marco Pezzella , Shampa Raghunathan , Markus Meuwly

Charge density is central to density functional theory (DFT), as it fully defines the ground-state properties of a material system. Obtaining it with high accuracy is a computational bottleneck. Existing machine learning models are…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Xuejian Qin , Taoyuze Lv , Zhicheng Zhong

Large thermal fluctuations of the liquid phase obscure the weak macroscopic electric field that drives electrochemical reactions, rendering the extraction of reliable interfacial charge distributions from ab initio molecular dynamics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Jing Yang , Bingxin Li , Samuel Mattoso , Ahmed Abdelkawy , Mira Todorova , Jörg Neugebauer

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…

This study extends the accurate and transferable molecular-orbital-based machine learning (MOB-ML) approach to modeling the contribution of electron correlation to dipole moments at the cost of Hartree-Fock computations. A…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Jiace Sun , Lixue Cheng , Thomas F. Miller

Atom-centered electric multipole moments can be extremely useful in chemistry as they enable the systematic mapping of a complex electrostatic problem to a simpler model. However, since they do not correspond to physical observables, there…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Andrea Levy , Andrej Antalík , Jógvan Magnus Haugaard Olsen , Ursula Rothlisberger

Machine learning (ML) plays an important role in quantum chemistry, providing fast-to-evaluate predictive models for various properties of molecules. However, most existing ML models for molecular electronic properties use density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Hao Tang , Brian Xiao , Wenhao He , Pero Subasic , Avetik R. Harutyunyan , Yao Wang , Fang Liu , Haowei Xu , Ju Li

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

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

Traditional atomistic machine learning (ML) models serve as surrogates for quantum mechanical (QM) properties, predicting quantities such as dipole moments and polarizabilities, directly from compositions and geometries of atomic…

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

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

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have enabled molecular dynamics at near ab initio accuracy, yet remain limited to energies and forces by construction, leaving electronic observables such as dipole moments and…

The calculation of electron density distribution using density functional theory (DFT) in materials and molecules is central to the study of their quantum and macro-scale properties, yet accurate and efficient calculation remains a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Teddy Koker , Keegan Quigley , Eric Taw , Kevin Tibbetts , Lin Li

Atomic partial charges are crucial parameters in molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, dictating the electrostatic contributions to intermolecular energies, and thereby the potential energy landscape. Traditionally, the assignment of partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Yuanqing Wang , Iván Pulido , Kenichiro Takaba , Benjamin Kaminow , Jenke Scheen , Lily Wang , John D. Chodera

Electronic structure is ubiquitously obtained via density functional theory (DFT), where the charge density plays a central role. This work presents EdenGNN (Equivariant Density Graph Neural Network), a machine learning (ML) charge density…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Xiwen Li , Zaizhou Xin , Hongyu Yu , Yang Zhong , Xingao Gong , Hongjun Xiang

We present \textsc{dm-PhiSNet}, a physically constrained \textsc{PhiSNet}-based equivariant model that predicts one-electron reduced density matrices (1-RDMs) directly from molecular geometries in an atomic-orbital (AO) basis for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Zuriel Y. Yescas-Ramos , Andrés Álvarez-García , Huziel E. Sauceda
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