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Title: Extending the accuracy of the SNAP interatomic potential form

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5017641· OSTI ID:1429723

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 Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000; 17-SC-20-SC; NA0003525
OSTI ID:
1429723
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1430387
Report Number(s):
SAND-2017-13691J; 659612; TRN: US1802482
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 148, Issue 24; ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 103 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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