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Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) promise to accurately describe the potential energy surface of molecules at the ab initio level of theory with improved computational efficiency. Within MLFFs, equivariant graph neural networks (EQNNs)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Orlando A. Mendible , Jonathan K. Whitmer , Yamil J. Colón

Fundamental understanding of interatomic forces in molecules must emerge from quantum mechanics, yet widely used empirical force fields rely on simplified mechanistic approximations that often fail to capture the complexity of many-body…

The thermal conductivity of organic liquids is a vital parameter influencing various industrial and environmental applications, including energy conversion, electronics cooling, and chemical processing. However, atomistic simulation of…

Machine Learning (ML)-based force fields are attracting ever-increasing interest due to their capacity to span spatiotemporal scales of classical interatomic potentials at quantum-level accuracy. They can be trained based on high-fidelity…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Sebastien Röcken , Julija Zavadlav

The enormous structural and chemical diversity of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) forces researchers to actively use simulation techniques on an equal footing with experiments. MOFs are widely known for outstanding adsorption properties, so…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-22 Vadim V. Korolev , Yurii M. Nevolin , Thomas A. Manz , Pavel V. Protsenko

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is essential for various scientific domains but computationally expensive. Learning-based force fields have made significant progress in accelerating ab-initio MD simulation but are not fast enough for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xiang Fu , Tian Xie , Nathan J. Rebello , Bradley D. Olsen , Tommi Jaakkola

Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a pervasive tool in science, engineering, and beyond. Its success has also led to several synergies with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, which we use to identify and characterize the major…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-09 Christopher Kolloff , Simon Olsson

Simulating large molecular systems over long timescales requires force fields that are both accurate and efficient. In recent years, E(3) equivariant neural networks have lifted the tension between computational efficiency and accuracy of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Leif Seute , Eric Hartmann , Jan Stühmer , Frauke Gräter

Machine-learned force fields (MLFFs), especially pre-trained foundation models, are transforming computational materials science by enabling ab initio-level accuracy at molecular dynamics scales. Yet their rapid rise raises a key question:…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Yi Cao , Paulette Clancy

To address the computational challenges of ab initio molecular dynamics and the accuracy limitations of empirical force fields, the introduction of machine learning force fields has proven effective in various systems including metals and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-18 Junbao Hu , Liyang Zhou , Jian Jiang

Quantum mechanics based ab-initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulation schemes offer an accurate and direct means to monitor the time-evolution of materials. Nevertheless, the expensive and repetitive energy and force computations required in…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-14 Venkatesh Botu , Rampi Ramprasad

Recently, machine learning (ML) has been used to address the computational cost that has been limiting ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD). Here, we present GNNFF, a graph neural network framework to directly predict atomic forces from…

Machine learning force fields possess unprecedented potential in achieving both accuracy and efficiency in molecular simulations. Nevertheless, their application in organic systems is often hindered by structural collapse during simulation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Junbao Hu , Dingyu Hou , Jian Jiang

Reconstructing force fields (FFs) from atomistic simulation data is a challenge since accurate data can be highly expensive. Here, machine learning (ML) models can help to be data economic as they can be successfully constrained using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Niklas Frederik Schmitz , Klaus-Robert Müller , Stefan Chmiela

Molecular dynamics (MD) provides insights into atomic-scale processes by integrating over time the equations that describe the motion of atoms under the action of interatomic forces. Machine learning models have substantially accelerated MD…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Filippo Bigi , Sanggyu Chong , Agustinus Kristiadi , Michele Ceriotti

Fast and accurate molecular force field (FF) parameterization is still an unsolved problem. Accurate FFs are not generally available for all molecules, like novel druglike molecules. While methods based on quantum mechanics (QM) exist to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Raimondas Galvelis , Stefan Doerr , Joao M. Damas , Matt J. Harvey , Gianni De Fabritiis

Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) are powerful tools for materials modeling, but their performance is often limited by training dataset quality, particularly the lack of rare event configurations. This limitation undermines their…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-23 Zihan Yan , Zheyong Fan , Yizhou Zhu

Machine learning (ML) force fields have emerged as a powerful tool for computing materials properties at finite temperatures, particularly in regimes where traditional phonon-based perturbation theories fail or cannot be extended beyond the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-30 Martin Callsen , Tai-Ting Lee , Mei-Yin Chou

The force field describing the calculated interaction between atoms or molecules is the key to the accuracy of many molecular dynamics (MD) simulation results. Compared with traditional or semi-empirical force fields, machine learning force…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Yongle Li , Feng Xu , Long Hou , Luchao Sun , Haijun Su , Xi Li , Wei Ren

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations enable modeling of materials and examination of microscopic details that are not accessible experimentally. The predictive capability of MD relies on the force field (FF) used to describe…