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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…