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Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become a mainstay in computationally-guided materials science, surpassing traditional force fields due to their flexible functional form and superior accuracy in reproducing physical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Igor Vorotnikov , Fedor Romashov , Nikita Rybin , Maxim Rakhuba , Ivan S. Novikov

Machine learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are becoming a standard method for DFT-level accurate molecular dynamics simulation and large-scale studies of crystal energetics. Increasingly popular are universal pre-trained potentials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Abhijith S Parackal , Rickard Armiento , Florian Trybel

Uranium dioxide (UO2) is a prototypical nuclear fuel material, yet predicting its thermophysical properties across a wide temperature range remains challenging. One factor contributing to this difficulty is the complex magnetic ordering at…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-10 Keita Kobayashi , Hiroki Nakamura , Mitsuhiro Itakura

Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) based on density functional theory (DFT) has become a workhorse for studying the structure, dynamics, and reactions in condensed matter systems. Currently, AIMD simulations are primarily carried out at…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Ritama Kar , Sagarmoy Mandal , Vaishali Thakkur , Bernd Meyer , Nisanth N. Nair

A machine-learned interatomic potential (MLIP) for multilayer MoS2 was developed using the ultra-fast force field (UF3) framework. The UF3 MLIP reproduces key properties in strong agreement with DFT including lattice constants, interlayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-20 Emir Bilgili , Nicholas Taormina , Richard Hennig , Simon R. Phillpot , Youping Chen

This letter presents a novel approach for identifying uncorrelated atomic configurations from extensive data sets with a non-standard neural network workflow known as random network distillation (RND) for training machine-learned…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Jan Finkbeiner , Samuel Tovey , Christian Holm

Finding complex reaction and transformation pathways, involving many intermediate states, is in general not possible on the DFT level with existing simulation methods due to the very large number of required energy and force evaluations.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Deb Sankar De , Marco Krummenacher , Bastian Schaefer , Stefan Goedecker

Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) are becoming a central tool in simulation-based chemistry. However, like most deep learning models, MLIPs struggle to make accurate predictions on out-of-distribution data or when trained in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Dario Coscia , Pim de Haan , Max Welling

Identifying transition states -- saddle points on the potential energy surface connecting reactant and product minima -- is central to predicting kinetic barriers and understanding chemical reaction mechanisms. In this work, we train an…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are an emerging modeling technique that promises to provide electronic structure theory accuracy for a fraction of its cost, however, the transferability of MLIPs is a largely unknown factor.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Tristan Maxson , Tibor Szilvasi

Transition Metal Complexes (TMCs) have wide-ranging practical utility in chemistry, with possible applications that range from catalysis to medicinal chemistry. The study of TMCs and their properties is thus a field rich with potential, one…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Luca Cibinel , Trond Linjordet , Johan Pensar , David Balcells , Riccardo De Bin , Basil Ell

Universal machine learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) represent arguably the most successful application of machine learning to materials science, demonstrating remarkable performance across diverse applications. However, critical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 Antoine Loew , Jonathan Schmidt , Silvana Botti , Miguel A. L. Marques

We present a study on the transport and materials properties of aluminum spanning from ambient to warm dense matter conditions using a machine-learned interatomic potential (ML-IAP). Prior research has utilized ML-IAPs to simulate phenomena…

The past decade has witnessed a spectacular development of machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs), to the extent that they are already the approach of choice for most atomistic simulation studies not requiring an explicit treatment…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-24 Iñigo Robredo-Magro , Binayak Mukherjee , Hugo Aramberri , Jorge Íñiguez-González

Owing to the trade-off between the accuracy and efficiency, machine-learning-potentials (MLPs) have been widely applied in the battery materials science, enabling atomic-level dynamics description for various critical processes. However,…

Silicon carbide (SiC) divacancies are attractive candidates for spin defect qubits possessing long coherence times and optical addressability. The high activation barriers associated with SiC defect formation and motion pose challenges for…

The modeling of solid-state transformations, such as polymorphic transitions and chemical reactions in molecular crystals, is vital for many applications including drug design or the development of new synthesis methods. However, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Natalia Goncharova , Johannes Hoja

Machine learning plays an increasingly important role in computational chemistry and materials science, complementing computationally intensive ab initio and first-principles methods. Despite their utility, machine-learning models often…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Makoto Takamoto , Viktor Zaverkin , Mathias Niepert

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become widely used tools in atomistic simulations. For much of the history of this field, the most commonly employed architectures were based on short-ranged atomic energy contributions,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 William J. Baldwin , Ilyes Batatia , Martin Vondrák , Johannes T. Margraf , Gábor Csányi

Large density functional theory (DFT) databases are a treasure trove of energies, forces and stresses that can be used to train machine learned interatomic potentials for atomistic modeling. Herein, we employ structural relaxations from the…