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Refining potential energy surface through dynamical properties via differentiable molecular simulation

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  • Bin Han

    (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (TSIGS))

  • Kuang Yu

    (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (TSIGS))

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Recently, machine learning potential (MLP) largely enhances the reliability of molecular dynamics, but its accuracy is limited by the underlying ab initio methods. A viable approach to overcome this limitation is to refine the potential by learning from experimental data, which now can be done efficiently using modern automatic differentiation technique. However, potential refinement is mostly performed using thermodynamic properties, leaving the most accessible and informative dynamical data (like spectroscopy) unexploited. In this work, through a comprehensive application of adjoint and gradient truncation methods, we show that both memory and gradient explosion issues can be circumvented in many situations, so the dynamical property differentiation is well-behaved. Consequently, both transport coefficients and spectroscopic data can be used to improve the density functional theory based MLP towards higher accuracy. Essentially, this work contributes to the solution of the inverse problem of spectroscopy by extracting microscopic interactions from vibrational spectroscopic data.

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  • Bin Han & Kuang Yu, 2025. "Refining potential energy surface through dynamical properties via differentiable molecular simulation," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 16(1), pages 1-12, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:16:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-025-56061-z
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56061-z
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