A Machine-Learned Interatomic Potential Free-Energy Surface for the First Step of MIL-101(Cr) Secondary Building Unit FormationMetal-organic framework (MOF) self-assembly mechanisms remain poorly characterized because ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) are accurate but too computationally expensive to converge the…Orlando A. Mendible-Barreto, Yamil J. Colón·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
Chiral Temporal Structures in Molecular Rotational DynamicsWe introduce chiral rotational wavepackets: coherent superpositions of a few low-lying rotational states of an achiral molecule for which the expectation value of a molecular axis traces a…A. G. Löhr, O. Smirnova, M. Mirahmadi·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
An F12 Correction for Multicomponent MP2Multicomponent methods treat both electrons and nuclei quantum mechanically using the standard machinery of electronic structure theory. Previous work has demonstrated that quantitatively describing…Mary J. Richardson, Gabrielle B. Tucker, Kurt R. Brorsen·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
Foundation Neural-Network Quantum States for Molecular Potential Energy Surfaces in Second QuantizationSecond-quantized neural-network quantum states have achieved accurate molecular energies, but extending them across molecular geometries requires a shared representation of the geometry-dependent…Lizhong Fu, Jianan Wei, Wenguan Wang et al.·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
What Does a Semilocal Machine-Learning Correction Actually Learn? Size-Dependent Errors across Four Parent FunctionalsMachine-learning (ML) corrections to density functional approximations (DFAs) offer a route to improving electronic-structure predictions while retaining the efficiency of semilocal functionals. An…Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Kishan Kumar Mohanta, Subrata Jana et al.·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
The NewMag crystal-field code for f-element systems: Implementation for extended active spaces, second-order correlated energies, and generalisation to fn configurationsWe report a massive update of the NewMag program, which enables to extract Stevens crystal-field parameters (CFPs) after relativistic and multiconfigurational calculations are performed. The code can…Gwenhaël Duplaix-Rata, Dumitru-Claudiu Sergentu, Boris Le Guennic et al.·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
Ionization-Driven Dehydrogenation and Molecular Growth in Gas-Phase Adamantane ClustersWe investigate fragmentation and molecular growth induced by keV ions in initially neutral gas-phase adamantane clusters, the simplest diamondoid molecule (Ad, C10H16). Using time-of-flight…Sumit Srivastav, Per Eng-Johnsson, Raimund Feifel et al.·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
Adaptive Expansions of the Optimized Effective Potential in Physically Motivated Response SpacesThe optimized effective potential (OEP) method provides an exact framework for incorporating orbital-dependent exchange within Kohn-Sham (KS) density-functional theory (DFT). Its practical…Gabriel Chirchir, Aditi Singh, Yan Lukashevich et al.·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
A systematic comparison of hard- and soft-constrained physics-informed molecular machine learning with the Clapeyron equationIn molecular machine learning (ML), significant progress has been made on integrating fundamental thermodynamic relations into ML models. Such physics-informed approaches can be categorized as…Jan Pavšek, Jan G. Rittig, Alexander Mitsos·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
Electronic excitation spectra and recovery of excited states with neural network wave functionsAccurate electronic spectra require both a flexible description of electron correlation and a tractable treatment of the many states contributing to the response. We combine neural network wave…Xiaoyu Zhang, Weizhong Fu, Yixiao Chen·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
Basis Functions for Time-Dependent Kohn-Sham InversionFloquet theory provides insight into the inversion of time-dependent Kohn-Sham density functional theory. Specifically, mathematical derivations show that the fundamental frequencies of a…Paul M. Zimmerman, Joshua Kammeraad, Duy-Khoi Dang et al.·Sep 29, 2026SaveLearn
Minor Structural Differences Tune Functional Specialization of Antenna Subunits in the PSII Energy Transfer NetworkPhotosystem II (PSII) contains a diverse array of pigment-protein subunits with specialized roles in the antenna network. We investigate the functional significance of this subunit diversity in two…Johanna L. Hall, Erin NewRingeisen, Trisha Bhagde et al.·Sep 28, 2026SaveLearn
A partially linearized mapping approach to surface hopping (MASH-PLDM) for nonadiabatic dynamics and nonlinear spectroscopyWe derive a partially linearized version of the mapping approach to surface hopping (MASH) that provides a new method for simulating nonadiabatic dynamics in molecular systems. As in the original…Jan Obermeier, Kasra Asnaashari, Jeremy O. Richardson·Sep 28, 2026SaveLearn
Experimental and numerical study of shock wave propagation in water generated by pulsed arc electrohydraulic dischargesThe objective of this study is to simulate the propagation of the shock wave in water due to an explosion. The study is part of a global research program on the development of an alternative…Wen Chen, Olivier Maurel, Christian La Borderie et al.·Sep 28, 2026SaveLearn
Non-equilibrium cavity pumping of electronic molecular polaritonsStrong light-matter coupling in optical cavities offers a non-invasive route to modify molecular properties, and it is usually reached by collectively coupling many molecules to the same mode. Here…Yassir El Moutaoukal, Rosario R. Riso, Henrik Koch·Sep 28, 2026SaveLearn
Symmetry-Aware Flow Matching for End-to-end Molecular Crystal GenerationMolecular crystal packing shapes properties from drug bioavailability to charge transport, yet generating realistic structures requires coordinating molecular flexibility, intermolecular interactions…Wendi Cai, Fanyang Mo·Sep 28, 2026SaveLearn
Curvature-Aware Flow Matching for Molecular Structure GenerationGenerative models produce three-dimensional molecular structures with high geometric accuracy, yet they are trained on distributions of atomic coordinates without explicit access to the underlying…Samir Darouich, Juliane Geisler, Jacob W. Toney et al.·Sep 28, 2026SaveLearn
Machine-learned Laplacian-level density functional from exact exchange-correlation potentials and energiesWe present NNLap, a machine-learned Laplacian-level exchange-correlation (XC) functional that augments PBE with a neural-network correction depending on the electron density, its gradient, and its…Arghadwip Paul, Bikash Kanungo, Sambit Das et al.·Sep 28, 2026SaveLearn
Accelerating Quantum Simulations of Materials Through Parameter and Ansatz Transfer StrategiesQuantum computing offers a promising route for electronic-structure calculations, but practical condensed-matter applications often require solving large families of related Hamiltonians arising from…Saurabh Shivpuje, Vinit Singh, Manas Sajjan et al.·Sep 27, 2026SaveLearn
Reduced scaling implementation of the coupled cluster-based static embedding method, MPCC with density fittingAn improved algorithm to implement our previously proposed static quantum embedding method MPCC (J. Chem. Phys. 161, 164107 (2024)) is presented. It uses the density-fitting (DF) approximation for…Avijit Shee, Fabian M. Faulstich, K. Birgitta Whaley et al.·Sep 26, 2026SaveLearn
The Same and Not the Same: A Machine-Checked Genealogy of Photochemical TheoryChemistry's phenomenological theories multiply with its observables: the same physical reality is repeatedly named in different measurement contexts, and the relations among theories have never…Junyi Gong, Zijie Qiu, Ben Zhong Tang·Sep 26, 2026SaveLearn
Reinforcement learning amortizes transition-state physics into one-step flow modelsTransition-state searches remain a major bottleneck in reaction discovery, as identifying valid saddle-point structures requires numerous expensive quantum-chemical calculations. Generative models…Yunyang Li, Zechang Sun, Kuang Yu et al.·Sep 25, 2026SaveLearn
Bridging Molecular Scales with Implicit Score Matching for Bottom-Up Coarse GrainingMolecular dynamics simulations provide a computational microscope for atomic scale processes but remain restricted to relatively small spatial and temporal scales. Coarse-grained models extend their…Patrick G. Sahrmann, Nicholas Lubbers, Benjamin T. Nebgen et al.·Sep 25, 2026SaveLearn
Heteroatom Position Controls Ultrafast Photodynamics of Oxazole and IsoxazoleThe ultrafast photochemistry of heterocyclic compounds is central to photobiology and materials chemistry, yet direct experimental observation of their structural dynamics remains rare. Here we…Briony Downes-Ward, Paul Javed, Huynh V. S. Lam et al.·Sep 25, 2026SaveLearn
HOMO-LUMO Intervals from Modern Density Functionals as Fundamental Gap EstimatorsUse of the Kohn-Sham eigenvalue gap (highest occupied molecular orbital to lowest unoccupied, HOMO-LUMO) as a fundamental gap (I-A, I= ionization potential, A= electron affinity) estimator is a…H. Francisco, Javier Carmona-Espíndola, A. C. Cancio et al.·Sep 25, 2026SaveLearn