The atomic simulation environment—a Python library for working with atoms

AH Larsen, JJ Mortensen, J Blomqvist… - Journal of Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The atomic simulation environment (ASE) is a software package written in the Python
programming language with the aim of setting up, steering, and analyzing atomistic …

Modeling and simulation in tribology across scales: An overview

AI Vakis, VA Yastrebov, J Scheibert, L Nicola, D Dini… - Tribology …, 2018 - Elsevier
This review summarizes recent advances in the area of tribology based on the outcome of a
Lorentz Center workshop surveying various physical, chemical and mechanical phenomena …

Machine learning a general-purpose interatomic potential for silicon

AP Bartók, J Kermode, N Bernstein, G Csányi - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The success of first-principles electronic-structure calculation for predictive modeling in
chemistry, solid-state physics, and materials science is constrained by the limitations on …

Machine learning based interatomic potential for amorphous carbon

VL Deringer, G Csányi - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We introduce a Gaussian approximation potential (GAP) for atomistic simulations of liquid
and amorphous elemental carbon. Based on a machine learning representation of the …

Diamond machining of silicon: a review of advances in molecular dynamics simulation

S Goel, X Luo, A Agrawal, RL Reuben - International Journal of Machine …, 2015 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has enhanced our understanding about ductile-regime
machining of brittle materials such as silicon and germanium. In particular, MD simulation …

Atomic cluster expansion for quantum-accurate large-scale simulations of carbon

M Qamar, M Mrovec, Y Lysogorskiy… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present an atomic cluster expansion (ACE) for carbon that improves over available
classical and machine learning potentials. The ACE is parametrized from an exhaustive set …

Assessment and optimization of the fast inertial relaxation engine (fire) for energy minimization in atomistic simulations and its implementation in lammps

J Guénolé, WG Nöhring, A Vaid, F Houllé, Z **e… - Computational Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
In atomistic simulations, pseudo-dynamical relaxation schemes often exhibit better
performance and accuracy in finding local minima than line-search-based descent …

Interatomic potentials: Achievements and challenges

MH Müser, SV Sukhomlinov, L Pastewka - Advances in Physics: X, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Interatomic potentials approximate the potential energy of atoms as a function of their
coordinates. Their main application is the effective simulation of many-atom systems. Here …

Review of force fields and intermolecular potentials used in atomistic computational materials research

JA Harrison, JD Schall, S Maskey, PT Mikulski… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular simulation is a powerful computational tool for a broad range of applications
including the examination of materials properties and accelerating drug discovery. At the …

Atomic scale mechanisms of friction reduction and wear protection by graphene

A Klemenz, L Pastewka, SG Balakrishna, A Caron… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We study nanoindentation and scratching of graphene-covered Pt (111) surfaces in
computer simulations and experiments. We find elastic response at low load, plastic …