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Many-body dispersion (MBD) is a powerful framework to treat van der Waals (vdW) dispersion interactions in density-functional theory and related atomistic modeling methods. Several independent implementations of MBD with varying degree of…

Noncovalent van der Waals (vdW) interactions are responsible for a wide range of phenomena in matter. Popular density-functional methods that treat vdW interactions use disparate physical models for these intricate forces, and as a result…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-15 Jan Hermann , Alexandre Tkatchenko

Accurate treatment of the long-range electron correlation energy, including van der Waals (vdW) or dispersion interactions, is essential for describing the structure, dynamics, and function of a wide variety of systems. Among the most…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-19 Martin A. Blood-Forsythe , Thomas Markovich , Robert A. DiStasio , Roberto Car , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

A correct description of electronic exchange and correlation effects for molecules in contact with extended (metal) surfaces is a challenging task for first-principles modeling. In this work we demonstrate the importance of collective van…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-05 Reinhard J. Maurer , Victor G. Ruiz , Alexandre Tkatchenko

A common approach to modeling dispersion interactions and overcoming the inaccurate description of long-range correlation effects in electronic structure calculations is the use of pairwise-additive potentials, as in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-10 Heikki Muhli , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Miguel A. Caro

Effective interactions between charged particles dispersed in an electrolyte are most commonly modeled using the Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (DLVO) potential, where the ions in the suspension are coarse-grained out at mean-field level.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-23 Thijs ter Rele , Gerardo Campos-Villalobos , René van Roij , Marjolein Dijkstra

We present a comprehensive methodology to enable addition of van der Waals (vdW) corrections to machine learning (ML) atomistic force fields. Using a Gaussian approximation potential (GAP) [Bart\'ok et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136403…

We extend our recently proposed Deep Learning-aided many-body dispersion (DNN-MBD) model to quadrupole polarizability (Q) terms using a generalized Random Phase Approximation (RPA) formalism, thus enabling the inclusion of van der Waals…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Pier Paolo Poier , Louis Lagardère , Jean-Philip Piquemal

We present a structured force reformulation of the many-body dispersion (MBD) model that enables a physically consistent decomposition of forces into pairwise components. By introducing a many-body correlation matrix that scales…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Zhaoxiang Shen , Raúl I. Sosa , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Alexandre Tkatchenko , Jakub Lengiewicz

The dispersion component of the van der Waals (vdW) interaction in low-dimensional metals is known to exhibit anomalous "Type-C non-additivity" [Int. J. Quantum Chem. 114, 1157 (2014)]. This causes dispersion energy behavior, at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 John F. Dobson , Alberto Ambroselli

We introduce an electron-photon exchange-correlation functional for quantum electrodynamical density-functional theory (QEDFT). The approach, photon MBD (pMBD), is inspired by the many-body dispersion (MBD) method for weak intermolecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Cankut Tasci , Leonardo A. Cunha , Johannes Flick

An accurate determination of the electron correlation energy is essential for describing the structure, stability, and function in a wide variety of systems, ranging from gas-phase molecular assemblies to condensed matter and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Alberto Ambrosetti , Anthony M. Reilly , Robert A. DiStasio , Alexandre Tkatchenko

We estimate polarizabilities of atoms in molecules without electron density, using a Voronoi tesselation approach instead of conventional density partitioning schemes. The resulting atomic dispersion coefficients are calculated, as well as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-31 Tristan Bereau , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Machine learning (ML) strategies are opening the door to faster computer simulations, allowing us to simulate more realistic colloidal systems. Since the interactions in colloidal systems are often highly many-body, stemming from e.g.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-09 Rinske M. Alkemade , Rastko Sknepnek , Frank Smallenburg , Laura Filion

We have extended the multilevel summation (MLS) method, originally developed to evaluate long-range Coulombic interactions in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations [Skeel et al., J. Comput. Chem., 23, 673 (2002)], to handle dispersion…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-16 Daniel Tameling , Paul Springer , Paolo Bientinesi , Ahmed E. Ismail

The many-body dispersion (MBD) framework is a successful approach for modeling the long-range electronic correlation energy and optical response of systems with thousands of atoms. Inspired by field theory, here we develop a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Matteo Gori , Philip Kurian , Alexandre Tkatchenko

The fully retarded dispersion interaction between an atom and a cluster or between two clusters is calculated. Results obtained with two different methods are compared. One is to consider a cluster as a collection of many atoms and evaluate…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-11-11 Hye-Young Kim , Jorge O. Sofo , Darrell Velegol , Milton W. Cole

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

We introduce a system-independent method to derive effective atomic C$_6$ coefficients and polarizabilities in molecules and materials purely from charge population analysis. This enables the use of dispersion-correction schemes in…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-05 Martin Stöhr , Georg S. Michelitsch , John C. Tully , Karsten Reuter , Reinhard J. Maurer

Simulations of colloidal suspensions consisting of mesoscopic particles and smaller species such as ions or depletants are computationally challenging as different length and time scales are involved. Here, we introduce a machine learning…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-01 Gerardo Campos-Villalobos , Emanuele Boattini , Laura Filion , Marjolein Dijkstra
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