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20242026
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7 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Understanding the Density Maximum of Water with Machine Learned Potentials

Yizhi Song, Renxi Liu, Chunyi Zhang +5

After melting, at ambient pressure, the density of water continues to increase with temperature until it reaches a maximum around 4 °C. For nearly a century, this phenomenon has b…

physics.chem-ph2026

fix pimd/langevin: An Efficient Implementation of Path Integral Molecular Dynamics in LAMMPS

Yifan Li, Axel Gomez, Kehan Cai +10

Path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD), which maps a quantum particle onto a fictitious classical system of ring polymers and propagates the "beads" of this extended classical sys…

physics.chem-ph2025

Assessment of First-Principles Methods in Modeling the Melting Properties of Water

Yifan Li, Bingjia Yang, Chunyi Zhang +5

First-principles simulations have played a crucial role in deepening our understanding of the thermodynamic properties of water, and machine learning potentials (MLPs) trained on t…

physics.chem-ph2025

Ab Initio Melting Properties of Water and Ice from Machine Learning Potentials

Yifan Li, Bingjia Yang, Chunyi Zhang +5

Liquid water exhibits several important anomalous properties in the vicinity of the melting temperature () of ice Ih, including a higher density than ice and a dens…

cond-mat.soft2025

Simulations of dielectric permittivity of water by Machine Learned Potentials with long-range Coulombic interactions

Kehan Cai, Chunyi Zhang, Xifan Wu

The dielectric permittivity of liquid water is a fundamental property that underlies its distinctive behaviors in numerious physical, biological, and chemical processes. Within a m…

physics.comp-ph2025

Spectral Similarity Masks Structural Diversity at Hydrophobic Water Interfaces

Yong Wang, Yifan Li, Linhan Du +5

The air-water and graphene-water interfaces represent quintessential examples of the liquid-gas and liquid-solid boundaries, respectively. While the sum-frequency generation (SFG)…