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Machine-learning interatomic potentials have revolutionized materials modeling at the atomic scale. Thanks to these, it is now indeed possible to perform simulations of \abinitio quality over very large time and length scales. More…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-23 Haochen Yu , Matteo Giantomassi , Giuliana Materzanini , Junjie Wang , Gian-Marco Rignanese

The success of first principles electronic structure calculation for predictive modeling in chemistry, solid state physics, and materials science is constrained by the limitations on simulated length and time scales due to computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-19 Albert P. Bartok , James Kermode , Noam Bernstein , Gabor Csanyi

We present an active learning framework for efficiently generating training data for machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs). The method combines local entropy-driven molecular dynamics with global dataset-aware filtering: a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Meiyan Wang , Rishi Rao , Li Zhu

In this work, we develop a framework for atomistic modeling of electronic polarizability to predict the Raman spectra of hydrogen-bonded clusters and liquids from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The total polarizability of the system…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Atanu Paul , Ilya Grinberg

Electron accumulation in interatomic regions is a fundamental quantum phenomenon dictating chemical bonding and material properties, yet its origin remains elusive across disciplines. Here, we report a quantum accumulation effect --…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-15 Qiang Xu , Zhao Liu , Yanming Ma

A benchmark ab initio and density functional (DFT) study has been carried out on the electron affinities of the first- and second-row atoms. The ab initio study involves basis sets of $spdfgh$ and $spdfghi$ quality, extrapolations to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Glenisson de Oliveira , Jan M. L. Martin , Frank de Proft , Paul Geerlings

We have calculated the low-field magnetic susceptibility $\chi$ of a system consisting of non-interacting mono-dispersed nanoparticles using a classical statistical approach. The model makes use of the assumption that the axes of symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 L. A. Ponomarenko , A. de Visser , E. Brück , A. M. Tishin

Electron-positron momentum distributions measured by the coincidence Doppler broadening method can be used in the chemical analysis of the annihilation environment, typically a vacancy-impurity complex in a solid. In the present work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Folegati , I. Makkonen , R. Ferragut , M. J. Puska

We present a test of the equivalence principle on cosmological scales. This cornerstone of general relativity has been tested with high precision for standard matter, but its validity for the unknown dark matter remains a crucial open…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Sveva Castello , Ziyang Zheng , Camille Bonvin , Luca Amendola

We study two entanglement measures in a large family of isotropic many-body states including incompressible quantum Hall liquids and quantum critical systems: the logarithmic negativity (LN), and mutual information (MI). For pure states,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Chia-Chuan Liu , Juliette Geoffrion , William Witczak-Krempa

The combination of modern scientific computing with electronic structure theory can lead to an unprecedented amount of data amenable to intelligent data analysis for the identification of meaningful, novel, and predictive structure-property…

We present a first-principles-based (second-principles) scheme that permits large-scale materials simulations including both atomic and electronic degrees of freedom on the same footing. The method is based on a predictive…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-08 Pablo García-Fernández , Jacek C. Wojdeł , Jorge Íñiguez , Javier Junquera

We show that a newly proposed Shannon-like entropic measure of shape complexity applicable to spatially-localized or periodic mathematical functions known as configurational entropy (CE) can be used as a predictor of spontaneous decay rates…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-03-26 Marcelo Gleiser , Nan Jiang

An expansion of energy characteristics of wide thin slab of thickness L in power of 1/L is constructed using the free-electron approximation and the model of a potential well of finite depth. Accuracy of results in each order of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. V. Pogosov , V. P. Kurbatsky , E. V. Vasyutin

We study the minimum energy configuration of a uniform distribution of negative charge subject to Coulomb repulsive self-interaction and attractive interaction with a fixed positively charged domain. After having established existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Marco Bonacini , Hans Knüpfer , Matthias Röger

We work out a semiclassical theory of shot noise in ballistic n+-i-n+ semiconductor structures aiming at studying two fundamental physical correlations coming from Pauli exclusion principle and long range Coulomb interaction. The theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Gomila , I. R. Cantalapiedra , T. Gonzalez , L. Reggiani

Atmospheric pressure helium plasmas are investigated through molecular dynamics simulations at room temperature (300 K) for various ionization fractions ($\chi_i = 10^{-1} - 10^{-5}$) in the strongly coupled regime (ion coupling parameter,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Swati Swagatika Mishra , Pascal Brault , Sudeep Bhattacharjee

Electron density is a fundamental quantity, which can in principle determine all ground state electronic properties of a given system. Although machine learning (ML) models for electron density based on either an atom-centered basis or a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Chaoqiang Feng , Yaolong Zhang , Bin Jiang

We present a benchmark designed to evaluate the predictive capabilities of universal machine learning interatomic potentials across systems of varying dimensionality. Specifically, our benchmark tests zero- (molecules, atomic clusters,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-22 Giulio Benedini , Antoine Loew , Matti Hellstrom , Silvana Botti , Miguel A. L. Marques

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…