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Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have shown significant promise in predicting infrared spectra with high fidelity. However, the absence of general-purpose MLIPs that simultaneously span broad chemical diversity and provide…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Nitik Bhatia , Ondrej Krejci , Silvana Botti , Patrick Rinke , Miguel A. L. Marques

Within first-principles density functional theory (DFT) frameworks, accurate but fast prediction of electronic structures of nanoparticles (NPs) remains challenging. Herein, we propose a machine-learning architecture to rapidly but…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-22 Kihoon Bang , Byung Chul Yeo , Donghun Kim , Sang Soo Han , Hyuck Mo Lee

We present an automated procedure for computing stacking fault energies in random alloys from large-scale simulations using moment tensor potentials (MTPs) with the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT). To that end, we develop an…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-23 Max Hodapp , Alexander Shapeev

In computational materials science, a common means for predicting macroscopic (e.g., mechanical) properties of an alloy is to define a model using combinations of descriptors that depend on some material properties (elastic constants,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-17 Ivan Novikov , Olga Kovalyova , Alexander Shapeev , Max Hodapp

Even though thermodynamic energy-based crystal structure prediction (CSP) has revolutionized materials discovery, the energy-driven CSP approaches often struggle to identify experimentally realizable metastable materials synthesized through…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-15 Yu Xin , Peng Liu , Zhuohang Xie , Wenhui Mi , Pengyue Gao , Hong Jian Zhao , Jian Lv , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Accurate modelling of electrostatic interactions and charge transfer is fundamental to computational chemistry, yet most machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) rely on local atomic descriptors that cannot capture long-range…

Creating a single unified interatomic potential capable of attaining ab initio accuracy across all chemistry remains a long-standing challenge in computational chemistry and materials science. This work introduces a training protocol for…

We present a high-throughput, end-to-end pipeline for organic crystal structure prediction (CSP) -- the problem of identifying the stable crystal structures that will form from a given molecule based only on its molecular composition. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Amit Kadan , Kevin Ryczko , Andrew Wildman , Rodrigo Wang , Adrian Roitberg , Takeshi Yamazaki

We developed a framework for predicting the energies and ground state configurations of native point defects, extrinsic dopants and impurities, and defect complexes across zinc blende-phase Cd/Zn-Te/Se/S compounds, important for CdTe-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Md Habibur Rahman , Maitreyo Biswas , Arun Mannodi-Kanakkithodi

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is crucial for identifying stable crystal structures in given systems and is a prerequisite for computational atomistic simulations. Recent advances in neural network potentials (NNPs) have reduced the…

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) has proven to be a highly effective route for discovering new materials. Substantial advancements have been made in CSP of inorganic and molecular crystals, while hybrid materials, including metal-organic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-17 Elizaveta Yakovenko , Iurii Nevolin , Anatoliy Chasovskikh , Artem Mitrofanov , Vadim Korolev

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) aims to discover solid crystalline materials by optimizing periodic arrangements of atoms, ions or molecules. CSP takes weeks of supercomputer time because of slow energy minimizations for millions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 Jakob Ropers , Marco M Mosca , Olga Anosova , Vitaliy Kurlin , Andrew I Cooper

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

Stable or metastable crystal structures of assembled atoms can be predicted by finding the global or local minima of the energy surface within a broad space of atomic configurations. Generally, this requires repeated first-principles energy…

Structural prediction for the discovery of novel materials is a long sought after goal of computational physics and materials sciences. The success is rather limited for methods such as the simulated annealing method (SA) that require…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-08 Chuannan Li , Hanpu Liang , Yifeng Duan , Zijing Lin

Machine learning interatomic potentials (ML-IAPs) enable quantum-accurate, classical molecular dynamics simulations of large systems, beyond reach of density functional theory (DFT). Yet, their efficiency and ability to predict systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-07 Lei Zhang , Gábor Csányi , Erik van der Giessen , Francesco Maresca

We report the development of a combined machine-learning and high-throughput density functional theory (DFT) framework to accelerate the search for new ferroelectric materials. The framework can predict potential ferroelectric compounds…

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

The development of accurate and efficient machine learning models for predicting the structure and properties of molecular crystals has been hindered by the scarcity of publicly available datasets of structures with property labels. To…

Simulating water from first principles remains a significant computational challenge due to the slow dynamics of the underlying system. Although machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLPs) can accelerate these simulations, they often fail…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Tobias Hilpert , Georg Kresse