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Molecular dynamics simulations have been used in different scientific fields to investigate a broad range of physical systems. However, the accuracy of calculation is based on the model considered to describe the atomic interactions. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-08 Márcio S. Gomes-Filho , Alberto Torres , Alexandre Reily Rocha , Luana S. Pedroza

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation predicts the trajectory of atoms by solving Newton's equation of motion with a numeric integrator. Due to physical constraints, the time step of the integrator need to be small to maintain sufficient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Tianze Zheng , Weihao Gao , Chong Wang

Reactive molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is performed using a reactive force field (ReaxFF). To this end, we developed a new method to optimize the ReaxFF parameters based on a machine learning approach. This approach combines the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Hiroya Nakata , Shandan Bai

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation is widely used to analyze the properties of molecules and materials. Most practical applications, such as comparison with experimental measurements, designing drug molecules, or optimizing materials, rely…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Frank Noé

We propose a mask pretraining method for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to improve their performance on fitting potential energy surfaces, particularly in water systems. GNNs are pretrained by recovering spatial information related to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zehua Zhang , Zijie Li , Amir Barati Farimani

Simulating the molecular dynamics (MD) using classical or semi-classical trajectories provides important details for the understanding of many chemical reactions, protein folding, drug design, and solvation effects. MD simulations using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-16 Siyang Yang

Generating molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories using deep generative models has attracted increasing attention, yet remains inherently challenging due to the limited availability of MD data and the complexities involved in modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Aniketh Iyengar , Jiaqi Han , Pengwei Sun , Mingjian Jiang , Jianwen Xie , Stefano Ermon

The evolution of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations has been intimately linked to that of computing hardware. For decades following the creation of MD, simulations have improved with computing power along the three principal dimensions of…

Simulations are vital for understanding and predicting the evolution of complex molecular systems. However, despite advances in algorithms and special purpose hardware, accessing the timescales necessary to capture the structural evolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Pantelis R. Vlachas , Julija Zavadlav , Matej Praprotnik , Petros Koumoutsakos

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

Simulating the dynamics of ions near polarizable nanoparticles (NPs) using coarse-grained models is extremely challenging due to the need to solve the Poisson equation at every simulation timestep. Recently, a molecular dynamics (MD) method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 JCS Kadupitiya , Geoffrey C. Fox , Vikram Jadhao

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a key tool for characterising nanoscale structures, with functionalised tips now offering detailed images of the atomic structure. In parallel, AFM simulations using the particle probe model provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Jie Huang , Niko Oinonen , Fabio Priante , Filippo Federici Canova , Lauri Kurki , Chen Xu , Adam S. Foster

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful technique for studying microscopic phenomena, but its computational cost has driven significant interest in the development of deep learning-based surrogate models. We introduce generative modeling of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-27 Bowen Jing , Hannes Stärk , Tommi Jaakkola , Bonnie Berger

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful tool for understanding the dynamics and structure of matter. Since the resolution of MD is atomic-scale, achieving long time-scale simulations with femtosecond integration is very expensive.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zijie Li , Kazem Meidani , Prakarsh Yadav , Amir Barati Farimani

Molecular dynamics is a powerful tool for studying the thermodynamics and kinetics of complex molecular events. However, these simulations can rarely sample the required time scales in practice. Transition path sampling overcomes this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Gianmarco Lazzeri , Hendrik Jung , Peter G. Bolhuis , Roberto Covino

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) achieve excellent accuracy when trained on large Density Functional Theory (DFT) data. To be useful in practice, they must often be adapted to target chemistries using small and expensive…

Molecular Dynamics simulations can help scientists to gather valuable insights for physical processes on an atomic scale. This work explores various techniques for SIMD vectorization to improve the pairwise force calculation between…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Luis Gall , Samuel James Newcome , Fabio Alexander Gratl , Markus Mühlhäußer , Manish Kumar Mishra , Hans-Joachim Bungartz

Molecular dynamics simulations have become essential in many areas of atomistic modelling from drug discovery to materials science. They provide critical atomic-level insights into key dynamical events experiments cannot easily capture.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Tiejun Wei , Balint Dudas , Edina Rosta

This review describes recent advances by the authors and others on the topic of incorporating experimental data into molecular simulations through maximum entropy methods. Methods which incorporate experimental data improve accuracy in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Dilnoza B. Amirkulova , Andrew D. White

Molecular dynamics simulations demand an unprecedented combination of accuracy and scalability to tackle grand challenges in catalysis and materials design. To bridge this gap, we present AlphaNet, a local-frame-based equivariant model that…