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Machine learning potentials have become a standard tool for atomistic materials modelling. While models continue to become more generalisable, an open challenge relates to efficient uncertainty predictions for active learning and robust…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Hubert Beck , Pavol Simko , Lars L. Schaaf , Ondrej Marsalek , Christoph Schran

The Cluster Expansion (CE) Method encounters significant computational challenges in multicomponent systems due to the computational expense of generating training data through density functional theory (DFT) calculations. This work aims to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-10 Guillermo Vazquez , Daniel Sauceda , Raymundo Arróyave

In radiotherapy, the internal movement of organs between treatment sessions causes errors in the final radiation dose delivery. Motion models can be used to simulate motion patterns and assess anatomical robustness before delivery.…

Dual-phase $\gamma$-TiAl and $\alpha_2$-Ti$_{3}$Al alloys exhibit high strength and creep resistance at high temperatures. However, they suffer from low tensile ductility and fracture toughness at room temperature. Experimental studies show…

Medium-entropy alloys (MEAs) such as CoCrFeNi and CoCrNi are promising structural materials owing to their outstanding mechanical and thermal properties, which arise from complex chemical disorder and atomic-scale interactions. Although…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 Mashroor S. Nitol , Artur Tamm , Subah Mubassira , Shuozhi Xu , Saryu J. Fensin

Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) are gaining attention as an alternative to classical force fields (FFs) by using deep learning models trained on density functional theory (DFT) data to improve interatomic potential accuracy. In this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Anseong Park , Jaeyune Ryu , Won Bo Lee

The atomic cluster expansion (ACE) efficiently parameterizes complex energy surfaces of pure elements and alloys. Due to the local nature of the many-body basis, ACE is inherently local or semilocal for graph ACE. Here, we employ…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-07 Matteo Rinaldi , Anton Bochkarev , Yury Lysogorskiy , Ralf Drautz

We report that single interatomic potential, developed using Gaussian regression of density functional theory calculation data, has high accuracy and flexibility to describe phonon transport with ab initio accuracy in two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-31 Hasan Babaei , Ruiqiang Guo , Amirreza Hashemi , Sangyeop Lee

Foundational machine learning interatomic potentials that can accurately and efficiently model a vast range of materials are critical for accelerating atomistic discovery. We introduce universal potentials based on the graph atomic cluster…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Yury Lysogorskiy , Anton Bochkarev , Ralf Drautz

We present a new efficient way to perform hybrid density functional theory (DFT) based electronic structure calculation. The new method uses an interpolative separable density fitting (ISDF) procedure to construct a set of numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-07-31 Wei Hu , Lin Lin , Chao Yang

Density-potential functional theory (DPFT) is an alternative formulation of orbital-free density functional theory that may be suitable for modeling the electronic structure of large systems. To date, DPFT has been applied mainly to quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-21 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , William C. Witt , Sergei Manzhos

We present density functional theory (DFT) calculations of the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) of FePt, which is of great interest for magnetic recording applications. Our data, and the majority of previously calculated results for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-13 Michael Wolloch , Dieter Suess , Peter Mohn

Phonons play a critical role in determining various material properties, but conventional methods for phonon calculations are computationally intensive, limiting their broad applicability. In this study, we present an approach to accelerate…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-16 Huiju Lee , Vinay I. Hegde , Chris Wolverton , Yi Xia

We present a first-principles framework to extract deformation potentials in Silicon based on density-functional theory (DFT) and density-functional perturbation theory (DFPT). We compute the electronic band structures, phonon dispersion…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-05 Zhen Li , Patrizio Graziosi , Neophytos Neophytou

Ice is one of the most important and interesting molecular crystals exhibiting a rich and evolving phase diagram. Recent discoveries mean that there are now twenty distinct polymorphs; a structural diversity that arises from a delicate…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Flaviano Della Pia , Andrea Zen , Dario Alfè , Angelos Michaelides

We present a mesoscale description of deformations and defects in thin, flexible sheets with crystalline order, tackling the interplay between in-plane elasticity, out-of-plane deformation, as well as dislocation nucleation and motion. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-26 Lucas Benoit--Maréchal , Ingo Nitschke , Axel Voigt , Marco Salvalaglio

Molecular dynamics simulations provide a versatile framework to study interfacial heat transport, but their accuracy remains limited by the accuracy of available interatomic potentials. In the past, researchers have adopted the use of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-11 Spencer Wyant , Andrew Rohskopf , Asegun Henry

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

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

Phase change materials such as Ge$_{2}$Sb$_{2}$Te$_{5}$ (GST) are ideal candidates for next-generation, non-volatile, solid-state memory due to the ability to retain binary data in the amorphous and crystal phases, and rapidly transition…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-14 Owen R. Dunton , Tom Arbaugh , Francis W. Starr