Extending the accuracy of the SNAP interatomic potential form
Journal Article
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· Journal of Chemical Physics
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
The Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential (SNAP) is a classical interatomic potential that expresses the energy of each atom as a linear function of selected bispectrum components of the neighbor atoms. An extension of the SNAP form is proposed that includes quadratic terms in the bispectrum components. The extension is shown to provide a large increase in accuracy relative to the linear form, while incurring only a modest increase in computational cost. The mathematical structure of the quadratic SNAP form is similar to the embedded atom method (EAM), with the SNAP bispectrum components serving as counterparts to the two-body density functions in EAM. It is also argued that the quadratic SNAP form is a special case of an artificial neural network (ANN). The effectiveness of the new form is demonstrated using an extensive set of training data for tantalum structures. Similarly to ANN potentials, the quadratic SNAP form requires substantially more training data in order to prevent overfitting, as measured by cross-validation analysis.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 1429723
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1430387
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--2017-13691J; 659612
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Chemical Physics Journal Issue: 24 Vol. 148; ISSN 0021-9606
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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