General-purpose machine-learned potential for 16 elemental metals and their alloys
Journal article, 2024

Machine-learned potentials (MLPs) have exhibited remarkable accuracy, yet the lack of general-purpose MLPs for a broad spectrum of elements and their alloys limits their applicability. Here, we present a promising approach for constructing a unified general-purpose MLP for numerous elements, demonstrated through a model (UNEP-v1) for 16 elemental metals and their alloys. To achieve a complete representation of the chemical space, we show, via principal component analysis and diverse test datasets, that employing one-component and two-component systems suffices. Our unified UNEP-v1 model exhibits superior performance across various physical properties compared to a widely used embedded-atom method potential, while maintaining remarkable efficiency. We demonstrate our approach’s effectiveness through reproducing experimentally observed chemical order and stable phases, and large-scale simulations of plasticity and primary radiation damage in MoTaVW alloys.

Author

Keke Song

University of Science and Technology Beijing

Rui Zhao

Hunan University

Jiahui Liu

University of Science and Technology Beijing

Yanzhou Wang

University of Science and Technology Beijing

Aalto University

Eric Lindgren

Chalmers, Physics, Condensed Matter and Materials Theory

Yong Wang

Nanjing University

Shunda Chen

The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science

Ke Xu

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ting Liang

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Penghua Ying

Tel Aviv University

Nan Xu

College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University

Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou

Zhiqiang Zhao

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Jiuyang Shi

Nanjing University

Junjie Wang

Nanjing University

Shuang Lyu

The University of Hong Kong

Zezhu Zeng

The University of Hong Kong

Shirong Liang

Harbin Institute of Technology

Haikuan Dong

Bohai University

Ligang Sun

Harbin Institute of Technology

Yue Chen

The University of Hong Kong

Zhuhua Zhang

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Wanlin Guo

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Ping Qian

University of Science and Technology Beijing

Jian Sun

Nanjing University

Paul Erhart

Chalmers, Physics

Tapio Ala-Nissila

Loughborough University

Aalto University

Yanjing Su

University of Science and Technology Beijing

Zheyong Fan

Bohai University

Nature Communications

2041-1723 (ISSN) 20411723 (eISSN)

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Condensed Matter Physics

DOI

10.1038/s41467-024-54554-x

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