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most citedMachine-learning-accelerated simulations to enable automatic surface reconstruction

51 citations · 51 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Universal Thermodynamic Interatomic Potentials for Crystalline Materials

Juno Nam, Bowen Deng, Xiaochen Du +3

Free energies govern solid-state phase stability, yet computational materials discovery still relies largely on ground-state energies because free energy calculations require ensem…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

MetaDNS: Enhancing Exploration in Discrete Neural Samplers via Well-Tempered Metadynamics

Xiaochen Du, Juno Nam, Jaemoo Choi +7

Sampling from discrete distributions with multiple modes and energy barriers is fundamental to machine learning and computational physics. Recent discrete neural samplers like MDNS…

physics.chem-ph2026

Harnessing AtomisticSkills for Agentic Atomistic Research

Bowen Deng, Bohan Li, Matthew Cox +20

Computational materials science and chemistry span vast knowledge domains and fractured software ecosystems. Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated research capabi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Scaling Autoregressive Models for Lattice Thermodynamics

Xiaochen Du, Juno Nam, Sulin Liu +1

Predicting how materials behave under realistic conditions requires understanding the statistical distribution of atomic configurations on crystal lattices, a problem central to al…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Accelerating and enhancing thermodynamic simulations of electrochemical interfaces

Xiaochen Du, Mengren Liu, Jiayu Peng +6

Electrochemical interfaces are crucial in catalysis, energy storage, and corrosion, where their stability and reactivity depend on complex interactions between the electrode, adsor…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 51 cited

Machine-learning-accelerated simulations to enable automatic surface reconstruction

Xiaochen Du, James K. Damewood, Jaclyn R. Lunger +4

Understanding material surfaces and interfaces is vital in applications like catalysis or electronics. By combining energies from electronic structure with statistical mechanics, a…