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20182026
most citedNeuroevolution machine learning potentials: Combining high accuracy and low cost in atomistic simulations and application to heat transport

526 citations · 2k across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

physics.comp-ph2026

NEP-CG and NEP-AACG: Efficient coarse-grained and multiscale all-atom-coarse-grained neuroevolution potentials

Zheyong Fan, Wenjun Zhang, Zhenhao Zhang +3

Machine-learned coarse-grained (CG) models often suffer from noisy training data, limiting their accuracy and transferability. We propose a method to generate low-noise training da…

physics.comp-ph2026★ 1 cited

qNEP: A highly efficient neuroevolution potential with dynamic charges for large-scale atomistic simulations

Zheyong Fan, Benrui Tang, Esmée Berger +13

Although electrostatics can be incorporated into machine-learned interatomic potentials, existing approaches are computationally very demanding, limiting large-scale, long-time sim…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Thermal conductivities of monolayer graphene oxide from machine learning molecular dynamics simulations

Bohan Zhang, Biyuan Liu, Penghua Ying +6

Graphene oxide (GO) exhibits rich chemical heterogeneity that strongly influences its structural, thermal, and mechanical properties, yet quantitatively linking reduction chemistry…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 4 cited

Anisotropic and isotropic elasticity and thermal transport in monolayer C networks from machine-learning molecular dynamics

Qing Li, Haikuan Dong, Penghua Ying +1

Two-dimensional fullerene networks have recently attracted increasing interest due to their diverse bonding topologies and mechanically robust architectures. In this work, we devel…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Optimizing thermoelectric performance of graphene antidot lattices via quantum transport and machine-learning molecular dynamics simulations

Yang Xiao, Yuqi Liu, Zihan Tan Bohan Zhang +5

Thermoelectric materials, which can convert waste heat to electricity or be utilized as solid-state coolers, hold promise for sustainable energy applications. However, optimizing t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 22 cited

NEP89: Universal neuroevolution potential for inorganic and organic materials across 89 elements

Ting Liang, Ke Xu, Eric Lindgren +16

While machine-learned interatomic potentials offer near-quantum-mechanical accuracy for atomistic simulations, many are material-specific or computationally intensive, limiting the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Million-atom heat transport simulations of polycrystalline graphene approaching first-principles accuracy enabled by neuroevolution potential on desktop GPUs

Xiaoye Zhou, Yuqi Liu, Benrui Tang +5

First-principles molecular dynamics simulations of heat transport in systems with large-scale structural features are challenging due to their high computational cost. Here, using…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 104 cited

Molecular dynamics simulations of heat transport using machine-learned potentials: A mini review and tutorial on GPUMD with neuroevolution potentials

Haikuan Dong, Yongbo Shi, Penghua Ying +9

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations play an important role in understanding and engineering heat transport properties of complex materials. An essential requirement for reliably pr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 41 cited

Correcting force error-induced underestimation of lattice thermal conductivity in machine learning molecular dynamics

Xiguang Wu, Wenjiang Zhou, Haikuang Dong +5

Machine learned potentials (MLPs) have been widely employed in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study thermal transport. However, literature results indicate that MLPs genera…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 203 cited

General-purpose machine-learned potential for 16 elemental metals and their alloys

Keke Song, Rui Zhao, Jiahui Liu +25

Machine-learned potentials (MLPs) have exhibited remarkable accuracy, yet the lack of general-purpose MLPs for a broad spectrum of elements and their alloys limits their applicabil…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 26 cited

Combining linear-scaling quantum transport and machine-learning molecular dynamics to study thermal and electronic transports in complex materials

Zheyong Fan, Yang Xiao, Yanzhou Wang +3

We propose an efficient approach for simultaneous prediction of thermal and electronic transport properties in complex materials. Firstly, a highly efficient machine-learned neuroe…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 73 cited

Anisotropic and high thermal conductivity in monolayer quasi-hexagonal fullerene: A comparative study against bulk phase fullerene

Haikuan Dong, Chenyang Cao, Penghua Ying +3

Recently a novel two-dimensional (2D) C based crystal called quasi-hexagonal-phase fullerene (QHPF) has been fabricated and demonstrated to be a promising candidate for 2D e…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 10 cited

Exactly equivalent thermal conductivity in finite systems from equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations

Haikuan Dong, Zheyong Fan, Ping Qian +1

In a previous paper [Physical Review B \textbf{103}, 035417 (2021)], we showed that the equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD) method can be used to compute the apparent thermal cond…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 463 cited

GPUMD: A package for constructing accurate machine-learned potentials and performing highly efficient atomistic simulations

Zheyong Fan, Yanzhou Wang, Penghua Ying +17

We present our latest advancements of machine-learned potentials (MLPs) based on the neuroevolution potential (NEP) framework introduced in [Fan et al., Phys. Rev. B 104, 104309 (2…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 18 cited

Heat transport across graphene/hexagonal-BN tilted grain boundaries from phase-field crystal model and molecular dynamics simulations

Haikuan Dong, Petri Hirvonen, Zheyong Fan +3

We study the interfacial thermal conductance of grain boundaries (GBs) between monolayer graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) sheets using a combined atomistic approach. Fir…

physics.comp-ph2021★ 526 cited

Neuroevolution machine learning potentials: Combining high accuracy and low cost in atomistic simulations and application to heat transport

Zheyong Fan, Zezhu Zeng, Cunzhi Zhang +4

We develop a neuroevolution-potential (NEP) framework for generating neural network based machine-learning potentials. They are trained using an evolutionary strategy for performin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 41 cited

Ultrahigh convergent thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes from comprehensive atomistic modeling

Giuseppe Barbalinardo, Zekun Chen, Haikuan Dong +2

Anomalous heat transport in one-dimensional nanostructures, such as nanotubes and nanowires, is a widely debated problem in condensed matter and statistical physics, with contradic…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 17 cited

Interpretation of apparent thermal conductivity in finite systems from equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations

Haikuan Dong, Shiyun Xiong, Zheyong Fan +3

We propose a way to properly interpret the apparent thermal conductivity obtained for finite systems using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations (EMD) with fixed or open bound…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 36 cited

Thermal conductivity reduction in carbon nanotube by fullerene encapsulation: A molecular dynamics study

Haikuan Dong, Zheyong Fan, Ping Qian +2

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in their pristine form have high thermal conductivity whose further improvement has attracted a lot of interest. Some theoretical studies ha…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 17 cited

Phase field crystal model for heterostructures

Petri Hirvonen, Vili Heinonen, Haikuan Dong +3

Atomically thin 2-dimensional heterostructures are a promising, novel class of materials with groundbreaking properties. The possiblity of choosing the many constituent components…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 44 cited

Heat transport in pristine and polycrystalline single-layer hexagonal boron nitride

Haikuan Dong, Petri Hirvonen, Zheyong Fan +1

We use a phase field crystal model to generate large-scale bicrystalline and polycrystalline single-layer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) samples and employ molecular dynamics (MD)…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 273 cited

Homogeneous nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method for heat transport and spectral decomposition with many-body potentials

Zheyong Fan, Haikuan Dong, Ari Harju +1

The standard equilibrium Green-Kubo and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) methods for computing thermal transport coefficients in solids typically require relatively long simu…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 96 cited

Equivalence of the equilibrium and the nonequilibrium molecular dynamics methods for thermal conductivity calculations: From bulk to nanowire silicon

Haikuan Dong, Zheyong Fan, Libin Shi +2

Molecular dynamics simulations play an important role in studying heat transport in complex materials. The lattice thermal conductivity can be computed either using the Green-Kubo…