Evaluating approaches for on-the-fly machine learning interatomic potential for activated mechanisms sampling with the activation-relaxation technique nouveau

Abstract

In the last few years, much efforts have gone into developing universal machine-learning potentials able to describe interactions for a wide range of structures and phases. Yet, as attention turns to more complex materials including alloys, disordered and heterogeneous systems, the challenge of providing reliable description for all possible environment become ever more costly. In this work, we evaluate the benefits of using specific versus general potentials for the study of activated mechanisms in solid-state materials. More specifically, we tests three machine-learning fitting approaches using the moment-tensor potential to reproduce a reference potential when exploring the energy landscape around a vacancy in Stillinger-Weber silicon crystal and silicon-germanium zincblende structure using the activation-relaxation technique nouveau (ARTn). We find that a a targeted on-the-fly approach specific and integrated to ARTn generates the highest precision on the energetic and geometry of activated barriers, while remaining cost-effective. This approach expands the type of problems that can be addressed with high-accuracy ML potentials.

arXiv commentThe following article has been submitted to/accepted by The Journal of Chemical Physics. After it is published, it will be found at https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp

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