Molecular dynamics is a powerful simulation tool to explore material properties.Most realistic material systems are too large to be simulated using first-principles molecular dynamics.Classical molecular dynamics has ...Molecular dynamics is a powerful simulation tool to explore material properties.Most realistic material systems are too large to be simulated using first-principles molecular dynamics.Classical molecular dynamics has a lower computational cost but requires accurate force fields to achieve chemical accuracy.In this work,we develop a symmetry-adapted graph neural network framework called the molecular dynamics graph neural network(MDGNN)to construct force fields automatically for molecular dynamics simulations for both molecules and crystals.This architecture consistently preserves translation,rotation,and permutation invariance in the simulations.We also propose a new feature engineering method that includes high-order terms of interatomic distances and demonstrate that the MDGNN accurately reproduces the results of both classical and first-principles molecular dynamics.In addition,we demonstrate that force fields constructed by the proposed model have good transferability.The MDGNN is thus an efficient and promising option for performing molecular dynamics simulations of large-scale systems with high accuracy.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the Basic Science Center Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51788104)the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant Nos.2016YFA0301001,and 2017YFB0701502)the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering.
文摘Molecular dynamics is a powerful simulation tool to explore material properties.Most realistic material systems are too large to be simulated using first-principles molecular dynamics.Classical molecular dynamics has a lower computational cost but requires accurate force fields to achieve chemical accuracy.In this work,we develop a symmetry-adapted graph neural network framework called the molecular dynamics graph neural network(MDGNN)to construct force fields automatically for molecular dynamics simulations for both molecules and crystals.This architecture consistently preserves translation,rotation,and permutation invariance in the simulations.We also propose a new feature engineering method that includes high-order terms of interatomic distances and demonstrate that the MDGNN accurately reproduces the results of both classical and first-principles molecular dynamics.In addition,we demonstrate that force fields constructed by the proposed model have good transferability.The MDGNN is thus an efficient and promising option for performing molecular dynamics simulations of large-scale systems with high accuracy.
