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20152026
most citedBig Data meets Quantum Chemistry Approximations: The -Machine Learning Approach

922 citations · 1.4k across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Can Machine Learning Potentials Be More Accurate Than the Methods They Are Trained On?

Pavlo O. Dral, Yi-Fan Hou, Yuxinxin Chen +4

Although machine learning potentials (MLPs) generalize across configurational and chemical compound spaces, their accuracy is commonly believed to be limited by their training meth…

physics.chem-ph2026

Science Done on a Machine by a Machine: AI Agents in Computational Chemistry

Pavlo O. Dral, Hassan Nawaz, Arif Ullah

We are witnessing an explosion of agentic systems for computational chemistry: from four in 2024 to seventeen in 2025 and over sixty now, surveyed here. What is delegated to these…

physics.chem-ph2026

Toward Machine Learning Enhancement of Accelerated Surface Hopping with Scaled Spin--Orbit Couplings

Jakub Martinka, Mahesh Kumar Sit, Pavlo O. Dral +1

Surface hopping (SH) methods are typically employed to simulate ultrafast nonadiabatic processes, but long timescales often remain beyond their reach. To address this, accelerated…

physics.chem-ph2025

Flexible Framework for Surface Hopping: From Hybrid Schemes for Machine Learning to Benchmarkable Nonadiabatic Dynamics

Jakub Martinka, Mikołaj Martyka, Biman Medhi +2

Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics is a key technique for investigating a broad range of photochemical and photophysical processes. Among the established approaches, surface hopping s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Quantum-inspired Chemical Rule for Discovering Topological Materials

Xinyu Xu, Rajibul Islam, Ghulam Hussain +5

Topological materials exhibit unique electronic structures that underpin both fundamental quantum phenomena and next-generation technologies, yet their discovery remains constraine…

physics.comp-ph2025★ 10 cited

A Descriptor Is All You Need: Accurate Machine Learning of Nonadiabatic Coupling Vectors

Jakub Martinka, Lina Zhang, Yi-Fan Hou +4

Nonadiabatic couplings (NACs) play a crucial role in modeling photochemical and photophysical processes with methods such as the widely used fewest-switches surface hopping (FSSH).…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Artificial Intelligence for Direct Prediction of Molecular Dynamics Across Chemical Space

Fuchun Ge, Yuxinxin Chen, Pavlo O. Dral

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful tool for exploring the behavior of atomistic systems, but its reliance on sequential numerical integration limits simulation efficiency. We pr…

physics.comp-ph2025

Aitomia: Your Intelligent Assistant for AI-Driven Atomistic and Quantum Chemical Simulations

Jinming Hu, Hassan Nawaz, Yi-Fan Hou +5

We have developed Aitomia - a platform powered by AI to assist in performing AI-driven atomistic and quantum chemical (QC) simulations. This evolving intelligent assistant platform…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 4 cited

All-in-one foundational models learning across quantum chemical levels

Yuxinxin Chen, Pavlo O. Dral

Machine learning (ML) potentials typically target a single quantum chemical (QC) level while the ML models developed for multi-fidelity learning have not been shown to provide scal…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 17 cited

Molecular Quantum Chemical Data Sets and Databases for Machine Learning Potentials

Arif Ullah, Yuxinxin Chen, Pavlo O. Dral

The field of computational chemistry is increasingly leveraging machine learning (ML) potentials to predict molecular properties with high accuracy and efficiency, providing a viab…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 5 cited

A simple approach to rotationally invariant machine learning of avector quantity

Jakub Martinka, Marek Pederzoli, Mario Barbatti +2

Unlike with the energy, which is a scalar property, machine learning (ML) predictions of vector or tensor properties poses the additional challenge of achieving proper invariance (…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 31 cited

MLatom software ecosystem for surface hopping dynamics in Python with quantum mechanical and machine learning methods

Lina Zhang, Sebastian V. Pios, Mikołaj Martyka +7

We present an open-source MLatom@XACS software ecosystem for on-the-fly surface hopping nonadiabatic dynamics based on the Landau-Zener-Belyaev-Lebedev (LZBL) algorithm. The dynami…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 9 cited

Tell machine learning potentials what they are needed for: Simulation-oriented training exemplified for glycine

Fuchun Ge, Ran Wang, Chen Qu +6

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) are widely applied as an efficient alternative way to represent potential energy surfaces (PES) in many chemical simulations. The MLPs are often…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 1 cited

Physics-Informed Neural Networks and Beyond: Enforcing Physical Constraints in Quantum Dissipative Dynamics

Arif Ullah, Yu Huang, Ming Yang +1

Neural networks (NNs) accelerate simulations of quantum dissipative dynamics. Ensuring that these simulations adhere to fundamental physical laws is crucial, but has been largely i…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 13 cited

Physics-informed active learning for accelerating quantum chemical simulations

Yi-Fan Hou, Lina Zhang, Quanhao Zhang +2

Quantum chemical simulations can be greatly accelerated by constructing machine learning potentials, which is often done using active learning (AL). The usefulness of the construct…

physics.chem-ph2024

AI-enhanced on-the-fly simulation of nonlinear time-resolved spectra

Sebastian V. Pios, Maxim F. Gelin, Arif Ullah +2

Time-resolved spectroscopy is an important tool for unraveling the minute details of structural changes of molecules of biological and technological significance. The nonlinear fem…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 70 cited

MLatom 3: Platform for machine learning-enhanced computational chemistry simulations and workflows

Pavlo O. Dral, Fuchun Ge, Yi-Fan Hou +15

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly becoming a common tool in computational chemistry. At the same time, the rapid development of ML methods requires a flexible software framewor…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 15 cited

Four-Dimensional-Spacetime Atomistic Artificial Intelligence Models

Fuchun Ge, Lina Zhang, Yi-Fan Hou +3

We demonstrate that AI can learn atomistic systems in the four-dimensional (4D) spacetime. For this, we introduce the 4D-spacetime GICnet model which for the given initial conditio…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 19 cited

Energy-conserving molecular dynamics is not energy conserving

Lina Zhang, Yi-Fan Hou, Fuchun Ge +1

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a widely-used tool for simulating the molecular and materials properties. It is a common wisdom that molecular dynamics simulations should obey physical…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 12 cited

MLQD: A package for machine learning-based quantum dissipative dynamics

Arif Ullah, Pavlo O. Dral

Machine learning has emerged as a promising paradigm to study the quantum dissipative dynamics of open quantum systems. To facilitate the use of our recently published ML-based app…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 12 cited

QD3SET-1: A Database with Quantum Dissipative Dynamics Data Sets

Arif Ullah, Luis E. Herrera Rodriguez, Pavlo O. Dral +1

Simulations of the dynamics of dissipative quantum systems utilize many methods such as physics-based quantum, semiclassical, and quantum-classical as well as machine learning-base…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 19 cited

Ultra-Fast Semi-Empirical Quantum Chemistry for High-Throughput Computational Campaigns with Sparrow

Francesco Bosia, Peikun Zheng, Alain Vaucher +3

Semi-empirical quantum chemical approaches are known to compromise accuracy for feasibility of calculations on huge molecules. However, the need for ultrafast calculations in inter…

quant-ph2022★ 35 cited

A comparative study of different machine learning methods for dissipative quantum dynamics

Luis E. Herrera Rodriguez, Arif Ullah, Kennet J. Rueda Espinosa +2

It has been recently shown that supervised machine learning (ML) algorithms can accurately and efficiently predict the long-time populations dynamics of dissipative quantum systems…

quant-ph2022★ 27 cited

One-shot trajectory learning of open quantum systems dynamics

Arif Ullah, Pavlo O. Dral

Nonadiabatic quantum dynamics are important for understanding light-harvesting processes, but their propagation with traditional methods can be rather expensive. Here we present a…