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most citedPoint defect modeling in materials: coupling ab initio and elasticity approaches

206 citations · 771 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

A strategic roadmap for an atomistic machine-learning ecosystem

Jörg Behler, Michele Ceriotti, Cecilia Clementi +47

Data-driven machine learning (ML) techniques have become an essential tool in many domains of science. Their application to atomistic simulations of matter is particularly widespre…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Systematic and accurate anharmonic formation free energies of metastable defects via a constrained Bayesian Adaptive Biasing Force framework

Clovis Lapointe, Anruo Zhong, Manuel Athènes +1

Computing the formation free energies of metastable defects at finite temperature remains challenging due to anharmonicity, the multiplicity of basins and the frequent occurrence o…

physics.chem-ph2026

Girsanov Reweighting for Uncertainty Propagation in Rare-Event Kinetics

Leonard Moracchini, Thomas Pigeon, Morgane Menz +3

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become a powerful tool for rare event sampling in molecular dynamics, offering near ab initio accuracy at a fraction of the com…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Revisiting quantum effects on dislocation glide in bcc metals from DFT calculations and machine-learning potentials

Arnaud Allera, Lisa Ventelon, Mihai-Cosmin Marinica +2

Quantum zero-point effects have been long proposed to explain a well-known discrepancy between the low-temperature flow stresses of body-centered cubic metals and corresponding ato…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Fully anharmonic calculations of the free energy of migration of point defects in UO2 and PuO2

Dillon G. Frost, Johann Bouchet, Mihai-Cosmin Marinica +3

Calculating diffusion rates of point defects in materials typically relies on the harmonic approximation to estimate migration free energies. However, anharmonic effects can have a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Agnostic calculation of atomic free energies with the descriptor density of states

Thomas D Swinburne, Clovis Lapointe, Mihai-Cosmin Marinica

We present a new method to evaluate vibrational free energies of atomic systems without a priori specification of an interatomic potential. Our model-agnostic approach leverages de…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Activation entropy of dislocation glide in body-centered cubic metals from atomistic simulations

Arnaud Allera, Thomas D. Swinburne, Alexandra M. Goryaeva +5

The activation entropy of dislocation glide, a key process controlling the strength of many metals, is often assumed to be constant or linked to enthalpy through the empirical Meye…

physics.ins-det2024★ 1 cited

Calculation of crystal defects induced in CaWO by 100 eV displacement cascades using a linear Machine Learning interatomic potential

Gabrielle Soum-Sidikov, Jean-Paul Crocombette, Mihai-Cosmin Marinica +3

We determine the energy stored in the crystal defects induced by \,eV nuclear recoils in low-threshold CaWO cryogenic detectors. A Machine Learning inter…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Robust crystal structure identification at extreme conditions using a density-independent spectral descriptor and supervised learning

Paul Lafourcade, Jean-Bernard Maillet, Christophe Denoual +4

The increased time- and length-scale of classical molecular dynamics simulations have led to raw data flows surpassing storage capacities, necessitating on-the-fly integration of s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Neighbors Map: an Efficient Atomic Descriptor for Structural Analysis

Arnaud Allera, Alexandra M. Goryaeva, Paul Lafourcade +2

Accurate structural analysis is essential to gain physical knowledge and understanding of atomic-scale processes in materials from atomistic simulations. However, traditional analy…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Synergistic coupling in ab initio-machine learning simulations of dislocations

Petr Grigorev, Alexandra M. Goryaeva, Mihai-Cosmin Marinica +2

Ab initio simulations of dislocations are essential to build quantitative models of material strength, but the required system sizes are often at or beyond the limit of existing me…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 56 cited

Quantum-accurate magneto-elastic predictions with classical spin-lattice dynamics

Svetoslav Nikolov, Mitchell A. Wood, Attila Cangi +5

A data-driven framework is presented for building magneto-elastic machine-learning interatomic potentials (ML-IAPs) for large-scale spin-lattice dynamics simulations. The magneto-e…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 139 cited

Solute diffusion by self-interstitial defects and radiation-induced segregation in ferritic Fe-X (X=Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, P, Si) dilute alloys

Luca Messina, Thomas Schuler, Maylise Nastar +2

This work investigates solute transport due to self-interstitial defects and radiation induced segregation tendencies in dilute ferritic alloys, by computing the transport coeffici…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 59 cited

Relaxation volumes of microscopic and mesoscopic irradiation-induced defects in tungsten

Daniel R Mason, Duc Nguyen-Manh, Mihai-Cosmin Marinica +2

The low energy structures of irradiation-induced defects have been studied in detail, as these determine the available modes by which a defect can diffuse or relax. As a result, th…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 8 cited

Smart energy models for atomistic simulations using a DFT-driven multifidelity approach

Luca Messina, Alessio Quaglino, Alexandra Goryaeva +5

The reliability of atomistic simulations depends on the quality of the underlying energy models providing the source of physical information, for instance for the calculation of mi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2015★ 11 cited

Using Bayes formula to estimate rates of rare events in transition path sampling simulations

Pierre Terrier, Mihai-Cosmin Marinica, Manuel Athènes

Transition path sampling is a method for estimating the rates of rare events in molecular systems based on the gradual transformation of a path distribution containing a small frac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 206 cited

Point defect modeling in materials: coupling ab initio and elasticity approaches

Céline Varvenne, Fabien Bruneval, Mihai-Cosmin Marinica +1

Modeling point defects at an atomic scale requires careful treatment of the long-range atomic relaxations. This elastic field can strongly affect point defect properties calculated…

cond-mat.stat-mech2013★ 22 cited

Free energy calculations from adaptive molecular dynamics simulations with adiabatic reweighting

Lingling Cao, Gabriel Stoltz, Tony Lelièvre +2

We propose an adiabatic reweighting algorithm for computing the free energy along an external parameter from adaptive molecular dynamics simulations. The adaptive bias is estimated…

physics.chem-ph2012★ 8 cited

Estimating time-correlation functions by sampling and unbiasing dynamically activated events

Manuel Athènes, Mihai-Cosmin Marinica, Thomas Jourdan

Transition path sampling is a rare-event method that estimates state-to-state timecorrelation functions in many-body systems from samples of short trajectories. In this framework,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 70 cited

Assessment of interatomic potentials for atomistic analysis of static and dynamic properties of screw dislocations in W

David Cereceda, J. Manuel Perlado, Alexander Stukowski +4

Screw dislocations in bcc metals display non-planar cores at zero temperature which result in high lattice friction and thermally activated strain rate behavior. In bcc W, electron…

cond-mat.stat-mech2010★ 28 cited

Free energy reconstruction from steered dynamics without post-processing

Manuel Athènes, Mihai-Cosmin Marinica

Various methods achieving importance sampling in ensembles of nonequilibrium trajectories enable to estimate free energy differences and, by maximum-likelihood post-processing, to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 119 cited

Some improvements of the ART method for finding transition pathways on potential energy surfaces

E. Cancès, F. Legoll, M. -C. Marinica +2

The Activation-Relaxation Technique nouveau (ARTn) is an eigenvector following method for systematic search of saddle points and transition pathways on a given potential energy sur…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2004★ 44 cited

Diffusion rates of Cu adatoms on Cu(111) in the presence of an adisland nucleated at FCC or HCP sites

Mihai-Cosmin Marinica, Cyrille Barreteau, Daniel Spanjaard +1

The surface diffusion of Cu adatoms in the presence of an adisland at FCC or HCP sites on Cu(111) is studied using the EAM potential derived by Mishin {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. B {\…