Deep Potential Molecular Dynamics: A Scalable Model with the Accuracy of Quantum Mechanics

作者:Zhang, Linfeng; Han, Jiequn; Wang, Han*; Car, Roberto; Weinan, E.
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2018, 120(14): 143001.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.143001

摘要

We introduce a scheme for molecular simulations, the deep potential molecular dynamics (DPMD) method, based on a many-body potential and interatomic forces generated by a carefully crafted deep neural network trained with ab initio data. The neural network model preserves all the natural symmetries in the problem. It is first-principles based in the sense that there are no ad hoc components aside from the network model. We show that the proposed scheme provides an efficient and accurate protocol in a variety of systems, including bulk materials and molecules. In all these cases, DPMD gives results that are essentially indistinguishable from the original data, at a cost that scales linearly with system size.