Failure to Reproduce the Results of "A new transferable interatomic potential for molecular dynamics simulations of borosilicate glasses''

Abstract

We reproduced the simulations described in Wang et al [J. Non-Cryst. Sol., 498 (2018) 294-304] and found we could not obtain the results reported. The root cause was identified to be incorrect atom masses in the original simulation files. As a consequence, the potential does not reproduce the experimental glass density -- and presumably, other structural properties -- and should be considered with great caution.