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20152026
most citedi-PI 2.0: A Universal Force Engine for Advanced Molecular Simulations

382 citations · 1.7k across the 40 of their papers we have counts for

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46 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Isotope Effects at Classical Cost through Mass-Differentiable Machine Learning

Ming-Zheng Du, Shi-Yu He, Jing Shen +5

Isotope effects govern fractionation and modulate reactivity, with applications from hydrogen energy to environmental science and catalysis, yet predicting them requires resolving…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Dyna-Mat: End-to-end benchmarking of foundation machine learning interatomic potentials in finite-temperature ensembles

Mikołaj J. Gawkowski, Nongnuch Artrith, Silvia Bonfanti +14

Foundation machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are increasingly being used as drop-in replacements for first-principles calculations, enabling simulations of materials…

physics.chem-ph2026

Controlling the phase behaviour of ultraconfined water via bilayer graphene stacking

Yixuan Pu, Benjamin X. Shi, Pavan Ravindra +3

Water confined within nanoscale capillaries exhibits phase behaviour and transport properties that differ substantially from bulk, and these effects are commonly interpreted as con…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Six Open Questions in Machine-Learned Interatomic Potential Foundation Models

Isabel Creed, Tim Rein, Ingvars Vitenburgs +21

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have had a profound impact on molecular modelling in recent years, promising to resolve the long-standing tension between the scale a…

physics.chem-ph2026

Distilling first-principles accuracy into compact machine learning potentials for condensed-phase chemistry

Sijia Chen, Niamh O'Neill, Benjamin X. Shi +1

Accurate machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have made first-principles-quality potential energy surfaces increasingly accessible for condensed-phase chemistry, but the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Efficient first-principles modeling of complex molecular crystals at sub-chemical accuracy

Benjamin X. Shi, Kristina M. Herman, Flaviano Della Pia +5

Molecules can form myriad crystalline polymorphs, each with distinct properties affecting their performance across diverse applications, from pharmaceuticals to functional material…

physics.chem-ph2026★ 6 cited

MACE-POLAR-1: A Polarisable Electrostatic Foundation Model for Molecular Chemistry

Ilyes Batatia, William J. Baldwin, Domantas Kuryla +10

Accurate modelling of electrostatic interactions and charge transfer is fundamental to computational chemistry, yet most machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) rely on loc…

quant-ph2026

Effective classical potential for quantum statistical averages

Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, Stuart C. Althorpe, Venkat Kapil

We present an effective potential that allows quantum thermal expectation values of a position-dependent observable to be estimated as a classical ensemble average of the correspon…

physics.chem-ph2026★ 1 cited

Harmonic-to-anharmonic thermodynamic integration made simple using REG TI

Venkat Kapil

Standard harmonic-to-anharmonic thermodynamic integration (TI) is known to develop a near singularity in the integrand for solids exhibiting diffusive degrees of freedom, such as r…

physics.chem-ph2026

Rigorous Quantum Thermodynamics from Entropic Path Integral Coarse-Graining

Jing Shen, Ziyan Ye, Ming-Zheng Du +5

Nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) remain a major challenge for molecular simulations, as rigorous treatment requires imaginary-time path-integral methods with heavy computational over…

physics.chem-ph2025

On the role of nuclear quantum effects on the stability of peptides

Jing Shen, Ming-Zheng Du, Dong H. Zhang +2

Nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) arising from the light mass of hydrogen can influence the structure and stability of hydrogen-bonded biomolecules, yet their role in determining pept…

physics.chem-ph2025

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Atomistic Learning for "Clusters-to-Bulk" Generalization

Mikołaj J. Gawkowski, Mingjia Li, Benjamin X. Shi +1

Training machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) on total energies of molecular clusters using differential or transfer learning is becoming a popular route to extend the a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

General Learning of the Electric Response of Inorganic Materials

Bradley A. A. Martin, Alex M. Ganose, Venkat Kapil +2

We introduce \texttt{MACE-Field}, a field-aware, -equivariant interatomic potential that learns a single electric enthalpy functional an…

physics.chem-ph2025

Vibrational Spectra of Materials and Molecules from Partially-Adiabatic Elevated-Temperature Centroid Molecular Dynamics

Jorge Castro, George Trenins, Venkat Kapil +1

Centroid molecular dynamics (CMD) incorporates nuclear quantum statistics into the calculation of vibrational spectra. However, when performed in Cartesian coordinates, CMD shows u…

physics.chem-ph2025

Nanoconfined superionic water is a molecular superionic

Samuel W. Coles, Amir Hajibabaei, Venkat Kapil +4

Superionic ice, where water molecules dissociate into a lattice of oxygen ions and a rapidly diffusing 'gas' of protons, represents an exotic state of matter with broad implication…

physics.chem-ph2025

Uncertainty in the era of machine learning for atomistic modeling

Federico Grasselli, Sanggyu Chong, Venkat Kapil +2

The widespread adoption of machine learning surrogate models has significantly improved the scale and complexity of systems and processes that can be explored accurately and effici…

physics.comp-ph2025★ 11 cited

Accurate and efficient machine learning interatomic potentials for finite temperature modeling of molecular crystals

Flaviano Della Pia, Benjamin X. Shi, Venkat Kapil +3

As with many parts of the natural sciences, machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are revolutionizing the modeling of molecular crystals. However, challenges remain for t…

physics.chem-ph2025

CO2 Hydration at the Air-Water Interface: A Surface-Mediated 'In and Out' Mechanism

Samuel G. H. Brookes, Venkat Kapil, Angelos Michaelides +1

An understanding of the CO + HO hydration reaction is crucial for modeling the effects of ocean acidification, for enabling novel carbon storage solutions, and as a model p…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 8 cited

An accurate and efficient framework for modelling the surface chemistry of ionic materials

Benjamin X. Shi, Andrew S. Rosen, Tobias Schäfer +4

Quantum-mechanical simulations can offer atomic-level insights into chemical processes on surfaces. This understanding is crucial for the rational design of new solid catalysts as…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Nuclear quantum effects induce superionic proton transport in nanoconfined water

Pavan Ravindra, Xavier R. Advincula, Benjamin X. Shi +3

Recent work has suggested that nanoconfined water may exhibit superionic proton transport at lower temperatures and pressures than bulk water. Using first-principles-level simulati…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 1 cited

Introduction to machine learning potentials for atomistic simulations

Fabian L. Thiemann, Niamh O'Neill, Venkat Kapil +2

Machine learning potentials have revolutionised the field of atomistic simulations in recent years and are becoming a mainstay in the toolbox of computational scientists. This pape…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 15 cited

Efficient Composite Infrared Spectroscopy: Combining the Doubly-Harmonic Approximation with Machine Learning Potentials

Philipp Pracht, Yuthika Pillai, Venkat Kapil +5

Vibrational spectroscopy is a cornerstone technique for molecular characterization and offers an ideal target for the computational investigation of molecular materials. Building o…

physics.chem-ph2024

Accurate nuclear quantum statistics on machine-learned classical effective potentials

Iryna Zaporozhets, Félix Musil, Venkat Kapil +1

The contribution of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) to the properties of various hydrogen-bound systems, including biomolecules, is increasingly recognized. Despite the development…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 5 cited

On the increase of the melting temperature of water confined in one-dimensional nano-cavities

Flaviano Della Pia, Andrea Zen, Venkat Kapil +3

Water confined in nanoscale cavities plays a crucial role in everyday phenomena in geology and biology, as well as technological applications at the water-energy nexus. However, ev…