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20192026
most citedActive learning of reactive Bayesian force fields: Application to heterogeneous hydrogen-platinum catalysis dynamics

147 citations · 261 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

stat.ML2026

Enhanced Diffusion Sampling: Efficient Rare Event Sampling and Free Energy Calculation with Diffusion Models

Yu Xie, Ludwig Winkler, Lixin Sun +10

The rare-event sampling problem has long been the central limiting factor in molecular dynamics (MD), especially in biomolecular simulation. Recently, diffusion models such as BioE…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Revealing the proton slingshot mechanism in solid acid electrolytes through machine learning molecular dynamics

Menghang Wang, Jingxuan Ding, Grace Xiong +8

In solid acid electrolytes CsHPO and CsHSO, the origin of fast proton conduction has long been debated, attributed either to local proton hopping or to polyanion rotati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Incongruent Melting and Phase Diagram of SiC from Machine Learning Molecular Dynamics

Yu Xie, Menghang Wang, Senja Ramakers +2

Silicon carbide (SiC) is an important technological material, but its high-temperature phase diagram has remained unclear due to conflicting experimental results about congruent ve…

physics.comp-ph2024★ 4 cited

Thermodynamically Informed Multimodal Learning of High-Dimensional Free Energy Models in Molecular Coarse Graining

Blake R. Duschatko, Xiang Fu, Cameron Owen +4

We present a differentiable formalism for learning free energies that is capable of capturing arbitrarily complex model dependencies on coarse-grained coordinates and finite-temper…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 2 cited

Stability, mechanisms and kinetics of emergence of Au surface reconstructions using Bayesian force fields

Cameron J. Owen, Yu Xie, Anders Johansson +2

Metal surfaces have long been known to reconstruct, significantly influencing their structural and catalytic properties. Many key mechanistic aspects of these subtle transformation…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 4 cited

Unraveling the Catalytic Effect of Hydrogen Adsorption on Pt Nanoparticle Shape-Change

Cameron J. Owen, Nicholas Marcella, Yu Xie +4

The activity of metal catalysts depends sensitively on dynamic structural changes that occur during operating conditions. The mechanistic understanding underlying such transformati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 2 cited

Complexity of Many-Body Interactions in Transition Metals via Machine-Learned Force Fields from the TM23 Data Set

Cameron J. Owen, Steven B. Torrisi, Yu Xie +6

This work examines challenges associated with the accuracy of machine-learned force fields (MLFFs) for bulk solid and liquid phases of d-block elements. In exhaustive detail, we co…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 24 cited

Micron-scale heterogeneous catalysis with Bayesian force fields from first principles and active learning

Anders Johansson, Yu Xie, Cameron J. Owen +4

Quantum-mechanically accurate reactive molecular dynamics (MD) at the scale of billions of atoms has been achieved for the heterogeneous catalytic system of H/Pt(111) using the…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 1 cited

Uncertainty-aware molecular dynamics from Bayesian active learning for Phase Transformations and Thermal Transport in SiC

Yu Xie, Jonathan Vandermause, Senja Ramakers +3

Machine learning interatomic force fields are promising for combining high computational efficiency and accuracy in modeling quantum interactions and simulating atomistic dynamics.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 147 cited

Active learning of reactive Bayesian force fields: Application to heterogeneous hydrogen-platinum catalysis dynamics

Jonathan Vandermause, Yu Xie, Jin Soo Lim +2

Accurate modeling of chemically reactive systems has traditionally relied on either expensive ab initio approaches or flexible bond-order force fields such as ReaxFF that require c…

physics.comp-ph2020

Multitask machine learning of collective variables for enhanced sampling of rare events

Lixin Sun, Jonathan Vandermause, Simon Batzner +4

Computing accurate reaction rates is a central challenge in computational chemistry and biology because of the high cost of free energy estimation with unbiased molecular dynamics.…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 59 cited

Bayesian Force Fields from Active Learning for Simulation of Inter-Dimensional Transformation of Stanene

Yu Xie, Jonathan Vandermause, Lixin Sun +2

We present a way to dramatically accelerate Gaussian process models for interatomic force fields based on many-body kernels by mapping both forces and uncertainties onto functions…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 11 cited

Spectral denoising for unsupervised analysis of correlated ionic transport

Nicola Molinari, Yu Xie, Ian Leifer +3

Computation of correlated ionic transport properties from molecular dynamics in the Green-Kubo formalism is expensive as one cannot rely on the affordable mean square displacement…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 4 cited

On-the-Fly Active Learning of Interpretable Bayesian Force Fields for Atomistic Rare Events

Jonathan Vandermause, Steven B. Torrisi, Simon Batzner +4

Machine learned force fields typically require manual construction of training sets consisting of thousands of first principles calculations, which can result in low training effic…