activity
20242026
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6 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Machine-Learning Potentials for sodium-potassium chloride mixtures: Predicting thermophysical properties and phase behavior of multicomponent salts

Karim Zongo, Hao Sun, Zijian Meng +3

Predicting the properties of multicomponent molten salts using density functional theory (DFT) remains challenging because the spatial and temporal scales required to evaluate tran…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Accelerating Moment Tensor Potentials through Post-Training Pruning

Zijian Meng, Karim Zongo, Matthew Thoms +2

Moment Tensor Potentials (MTPs) are machine-learning interatomic potentials whose basis functions are typically selected using a level-based scheme that is data-agnostic. We introd…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

A Kokkos-Accelerated Moment Tensor Potential Implementation for LAMMPS

Zijian Meng, Karim Zongo, Edmanuel Torres +3

We present a Kokkos-accelerated implementation of the Moment Tensor Potential (MTP) for LAMMPS, designed to improve both computational performance and portability across CPUs and G…

cond-mat.dis-nn2025

Amorphous silicon structures generated using a moment tensor potential and the activation relaxation technique nouveau

Karim Zongo, Hao Sun, Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon +2

Preparing realistic atom-scale models of amorphous silicon (a-Si) is a decades-old condensed matter physics challenge. Herein, we combine the Activation Relaxation Technique nouvea…

cond-mat.dis-nn2024

Is the Future of Materials Amorphous? Challenges and Opportunities in Simulations of Amorphous Materials

Ata Madanchi, Emna Azek, Karim Zongo +3

Amorphous solids form an enormous and underutilized class of materials. In order to drive the discovery of new useful amorphous materials further we need to achieve a closer conver…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

A unified moment tensor potential for silicon, oxygen, and silica

Karim Zongo, Hao Sun, Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon +1

Si and its oxides have been extensively explored in theoretical research due to their technological and industrial importance. Simultaneously describing interatomic interactions wi…