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20202026
most citedNeural functional theory for inhomogeneous fluids: Fundamentals and applications

56 citations · 355 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Multivariate hyperdensity functional theory for inhomogeneous equilibrium fluids: From first principles to simulation-based machine learning

Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt

Hyperdensity functional theory facilitates the investigation of the equilibrium behavior of a general order parameter or statistical mechanical observable in spatially inhomogeneou…

cond-mat.soft2026

Spherical metadensity functional learning for inhomogeneous classical fluids

Stefanie M. Kampa, Matthias Schmidt, Florian Sammüller

We develop classical density functional learning to address fluids with truncated pairwise interparticle interactions in three-dimensional spherical geometry. Simulation data for s…

cond-mat.soft2026

Nonequilibrium scaling of drag forces in counterdriven fluid mixtures

Jonas Köglmayr, Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt

We address the effective nonequilibrium drag force field that emerges from the microscopic interparticle interactions in steady states of counterdriven binary fluid mixtures. Using…

cond-mat.soft2026★ 3 cited

Metadensity functional learning for classical fluids: Regularizing with pair correlations

Stefanie M. Kampa, Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt

We investigate and exploit consequences of the recent neural metadensity functional theory [Kampa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107301 (2025), 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.107301] for d…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 9 cited

Learning the bulk and interfacial physics of liquid-liquid phase separation with neural density functionals

Silas Robitschko, Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt +1

We use simulation-based supervised machine learning and classical density functional theory to investigate bulk and interfacial phenomena associated with phase coexistence in binar…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 3 cited

Determining the chemical potential via universal density functional learning

Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt

We demonstrate that the machine learning of density functionals allows one to determine simultaneously the equilibrium chemical potential across simulation datasets of inhomogeneou…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Dynamical gauge invariance of statistical mechanics

Johanna Müller, Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt

We investigate gauge invariance against phase space shifting in nonequilibrium systems, as represented by time-dependent many-body Hamiltonians that drive an initial ensemble out o…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 17 cited

Neural density functional theory of liquid-gas phase coexistence

Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt, Robert Evans

We use supervised machine learning together with the concepts of classical density functional theory to investigate the effects of interparticle attraction on the pair structure, t…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 17 cited

Neural density functionals: Local learning and pair-correlation matching

Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt

Recently Dijkman et al. (arXiv:2403.15007) proposed training classical neural density functionals via bulk pair-correlation matching. We show their method to be an efficient regula…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 14 cited

Neural force functional for non-equilibrium many-body colloidal systems

Toni Zimmerman, Florian Sammüller, Sophie Hermann +2

We combine power functional theory and machine learning to study non-equilibrium overdamped many-body systems of colloidal particles at the level of one-body fields. We first sampl…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 18 cited

Gauge Invariance of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Johanna Müller, Sophie Hermann, Florian Sammüller +1

We identify a recently proposed shifting operation on classical phase space as a gauge transformation for statistical mechanical microstates. The infinitesimal generators of the co…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 21 cited

Hyper-density functional theory of soft matter

Florian Sammüller, Silas Robitschko, Sophie Hermann +1

We present a scheme for investigating arbitrary thermal observables in spatially inhomogeneous equilibrium many-body systems. Extending the grand canonical ensemble yields any give…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 11 cited

Noether invariance theory for the equilibrium force structure of soft matter

Sophie Hermann, Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt

We give details and derivations for the Noether invariance theory that characterizes the spatial equilibrium structure of inhomogeneous classical many-body systems, as recently pro…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 22 cited

Why neural functionals suit statistical mechanics

Florian Sammüller, Sophie Hermann, Matthias Schmidt

We describe recent progress in the statistical mechanical description of many-body systems via machine learning combined with concepts from density functional theory and many-body…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 17 cited

Hyperforce balance via thermal Noether invariance of any observable

Silas Robitschko, Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt +1

Noether invariance in statistical mechanics provides fundamental connections between the symmetries of a physical system and its conservation laws and sum rules. The latter are exa…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 56 cited

Neural functional theory for inhomogeneous fluids: Fundamentals and applications

Florian Sammüller, Sophie Hermann, Daniel de las Heras +1

We present a hybrid scheme based on classical density functional theory and machine learning for determining the equilibrium structure and thermodynamics of inhomogeneous fluids. T…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 12 cited

Local measures of fluctuations in inhomogeneous liquids: Statistical mechanics and illustrative applications

Tobias Eckert, Nex C. X. Stuhlmüller, Florian Sammüller +1

We show in detail how three one-body fluctuation profiles, namely the local compressibility, the local thermal susceptibility, and the reduced density, can be obtained from a stati…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 25 cited

Noether-Constrained Correlations in Equilibrium Liquids

Florian Sammüller, Sophie Hermann, Daniel de las Heras +1

Liquid structure carries deep imprints of an inherent thermal invariance against a spatial transformation of the underlying classical many-body Hamiltonian. At first order in the t…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 20 cited

Comparative study of force-based classical density functional theory

Florian Sammüller, Sophie Hermann, Matthias Schmidt

We reexamine results obtained with the recently proposed density functional theory framework based on forces (force-DFT) [Tschopp et al., Phys. Rev. E 106, 014115 (2022)]. We compa…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 10 cited

Inhomogeneous steady shear dynamics of a three-body colloidal gel former

Florian Sammüller, Daniel de las Heras, Matthias Schmidt

We investigate the stationary flow of a colloidal gel under an inhomogeneous external shear force using adaptive Brownian dynamics simulations. The interparticle forces are derived…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 28 cited

Force density functional theory in- and out-of-equilibrium

S. M. Tschopp, F. Sammüller, S. Hermann +2

When a fluid is subject to an external field, as is the case near an interface or under spatial confinement, then the density becomes spatially inhomogeneous. Although the one-body…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 29 cited

Adaptive Brownian Dynamics

Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt

A framework for performant Brownian Dynamics (BD) many-body simulations with adaptive timestepping is presented. Contrary to the Euler-Maruyama scheme in common non-adaptive BD, we…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 23 cited

Fluctuation profiles in inhomogeneous fluids

Tobias Eckert, Nex C. X. Stuhlmüller, Florian Sammüller +1

Three one-body profiles that correspond to local fluctuations in energy, in entropy, and in particle number are used to describe the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous classic…