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most cited-Machine Learning for Potential Energy Surfaces: A PIP approach to bring a DFT-based PES to CCSD(T) Level of Theory

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physics.chem-ph2026

VPT2 Calculations of Vibrational Energies of CH3COOC6H4COOH Done in Seconds on a Laptop Using a Machine Learned Potential

Saikiran Kotaru, Chen Qu, Apurba Nandi +2

The determination of quartic force fields for use in vibrational second-order perturbation (VPT2) calculations, currently available in numerous electronic structure packages, becom…

physics.chem-ph2026

Fidelity of Machine Learned Potentials: Quantitative Assessment for Protonated Oxalate

Chen Qu, Paul L. Houston, Qi Yu +5

There has been a veritable explosion of methods and software to perform machine-learned regression on datasets of electronic energies and forces to develop high-dimensional machine…

physics.chem-ph2025

"Gold-Standard" -Machine Learned and Transferable Potential for Linear Alkanes

Chen Qu, Thomas C. Allison, Apurba Nandi +4

The conformational properties of linear alkanes, CH, have been of intense interest for many years. Experiments and corresponding electronic structure calculations were…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 6 cited

The quantum nature of ubiquitous vibrational features revealed for ethylene glycol

Apurba Nandi, Riccardo Conte, Priyanka Pandey +4

Vibrational properties of molecules are of widespread interest and importance in chemistry and biochemistry. The reliability of widely employed approximate computational methods is…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 9 cited

Extending the atomic decomposition and many-body representation, a chemistry-motivated monomer-centered approach for machine learning potentials

Qi Yu, Ruitao Ma, Chen Qu +6

Most widely used machine learned (ML) potentials for condensed phase applications rely on many-body permutationally invariant polynomial (PIP) or atom-centered neural networks (NN)…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 24 cited

-Machine Learning to Elevate DFT-based Potentials and a Force Field to the CCSD(T) Level Illustrated for Ethanol

Apurba Nandi, Priyanka Pandey, Paul L. Houston +5

Progress in machine learning has facilitated the development of potentials that offer both the accuracy of first-principles techniques and vast increases in the speed of evaluation…

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★ 14 cited

No Headache for PIPs: A PIP Potential for Aspirin Outperforms Other Machine-Learned Potentials

Paul L. Houston, Chen Qu, Qi Yu +4

Assessments of machine-learned (ML) potentials are an important aspect of the rapid development of this field. We recently reported an assessment of the linear-regression permutati…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 9 cited

A Machine Learning Approach for Rate Constants III: Application to the Cl(P) + CH CH + HCl Reaction

Paul L. Houston, Apurba Nandi, Joel M. Bowman

The temperature dependence of the thermal rate constant for the reaction Cl(P) + CH CH + HCl is calculated using a Gaussian Process machine learning (ML)…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 23 cited

A -Machine Learning Approach for Force Fields, Illustrated by a CCSD(T) 4-body Correction to the MB-pol Water Potential

Chen Qu, Qi Yu, Riccardo Conte +3

-Machine Learning (-ML) has been shown to effectively and efficiently bring a low-level ML potential energy surface to CCSD(T) quality. Here we propose extending this approac…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 16 cited

Quantum calculations on a new CCSD(T) machine-learned PES reveal the leaky nature of gas-phase and ethanol conformers

Apurba Nandi, Riccardo Conte, Chen Qu +3

Ethanol is a molecule of fundamental interest in combustion, astrochemistry, and condensed phase as a solvent. It is characterized by two methyl rotors and () and $ga…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 35 cited

The MD17 Datasets from the Perspective of Datasets for Gas-Phase "Small" Molecule Potentials

Joel M. Bowman, Chen Qu Riccardo Conte, Apurba Nandi +2

There has been great progress in developing methods for machine-learned potential energy surfaces. There have also been important assessments of these methods by comparing so-calle…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 125 cited

q-AQUA: a many-body CCSD(T) water potential, including 4-body interactions, demonstrates the quantum nature of water from clusters to the liquid phase

Qi Yu, Chen Qu, Paul L. Houston +3

Many model potential energy surfaces (PESs) have been reported for water; however, none are strictly from "first principles". Here we report such a potential, based on a many-body…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 53 cited

Permutationally invariant polynomial regression for energies and gradients, using reverse differentiation, achieves orders of magnitude speed-up with high precision compared to other machine learning methods

Paul L. Houston, Chen Qu, Apurba Nandi +3

Permutationally invariant polynomial (PIP) regression has been used to obtain machine-learned (ML) potential energy surfaces, including analytical gradients, for many molecules and…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 14 cited

Enabling rapid and accurate construction of CCSD(T)-level potential energy surface of large molecules using molecular tailoring approach

Subodh S. Khire, Nalini D. Gurav, Apurba Nandi +1

The construction of the potential energy surface (PES) of even a medium-sized molecule employing correlated theory, such as CCSD(T), is an arduous task due to the high computationa…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 42 cited

A CCSD(T)-based permutationally invariant polynomial 4-body potential for water

Apurba Nandi, Chen Qu, Paul L. Houston +2

We report a permutationally invariant polynomial (PIP) potential energy surface for the water 4-body interaction. This 12-atom PES is a fit to 2119, symmetry-unique, CCSD(T)-F12a/h…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 92 cited

Breaking the Coupled Cluster Barrier for Machine Learned Potentials of Large Molecules: The Case of 15-atom Acetylacetone

Chen Qu, Paul Houston, Riccardo Conte +2

Machine-learned potential energy surfaces (PESs) for molecules with more than 10 atoms are typically forced to use lower-level electronic structure methods such as density function…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 160 cited

-Machine Learning for Potential Energy Surfaces: A PIP approach to bring a DFT-based PES to CCSD(T) Level of Theory

Apurba Nandi, Chen Qu, Paul Houston +2

``-machine learning" refers to a machine learning approach to bring a property such as a potential energy surface (PES) based on low-level (LL) density functional theory (DFT) e…