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Title: Using Neural Network Force Fields to Ascertain the Quality of Ab Initio Simulations of Liquid Water

Abstract

Accurately simulating the properties of bulk water, despite the apparent simplicity of the molecule, is still a challenge. In order to fully understand and reproduce its complex phase diagram, it is necessary to perform simulations at the ab initio level, including quantum mechanical effects both for electrons and nuclei. This comes at a high computational cost, given that the structural and dynamical properties tend to require long timescales and large simulation cells. In this work, we evaluate the errors that density functional theory (DFT)-based simulations routinely incur into due time- and size-scale limitations. These errors are evaluated using neural-network-trained force fields that are accurate at the level of DFT methods. We compare different exchange and correlation potentials for properties of bulk water that require large timescales. Here we show that structural properties are less dependent on the system size and that dynamical properties such as the diffusion coefficient have a strong dependence on the simulation size and timescale. Our results facilitate comparisons of DFT-based simulation results with experiments and offer a path to discriminate between model and convergence errors in these simulations.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. São Paulo State University (UNESP) (Brazil)
  2. Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andre (Brazil)
  3. State Univ. of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, NY (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
OSTI Identifier:
1994969
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0019394; SC0001137; FAPESP 2017/02317-2; 2016/01343-7; 2017/10292-0
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 125; Journal Issue: 38; Journal ID: ISSN 1520-6106
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Torres, Alberto, Pedroza, Luana S., Fernandez-Serra, Marivi, and Rocha, Alexandre R. Using Neural Network Force Fields to Ascertain the Quality of Ab Initio Simulations of Liquid Water. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c04372.
Torres, Alberto, Pedroza, Luana S., Fernandez-Serra, Marivi, & Rocha, Alexandre R. Using Neural Network Force Fields to Ascertain the Quality of Ab Initio Simulations of Liquid Water. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c04372
Torres, Alberto, Pedroza, Luana S., Fernandez-Serra, Marivi, and Rocha, Alexandre R. Mon . "Using Neural Network Force Fields to Ascertain the Quality of Ab Initio Simulations of Liquid Water". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c04372. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1994969.
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title = {Using Neural Network Force Fields to Ascertain the Quality of Ab Initio Simulations of Liquid Water},
author = {Torres, Alberto and Pedroza, Luana S. and Fernandez-Serra, Marivi and Rocha, Alexandre R.},
abstractNote = {Accurately simulating the properties of bulk water, despite the apparent simplicity of the molecule, is still a challenge. In order to fully understand and reproduce its complex phase diagram, it is necessary to perform simulations at the ab initio level, including quantum mechanical effects both for electrons and nuclei. This comes at a high computational cost, given that the structural and dynamical properties tend to require long timescales and large simulation cells. In this work, we evaluate the errors that density functional theory (DFT)-based simulations routinely incur into due time- and size-scale limitations. These errors are evaluated using neural-network-trained force fields that are accurate at the level of DFT methods. We compare different exchange and correlation potentials for properties of bulk water that require large timescales. Here we show that structural properties are less dependent on the system size and that dynamical properties such as the diffusion coefficient have a strong dependence on the simulation size and timescale. Our results facilitate comparisons of DFT-based simulation results with experiments and offer a path to discriminate between model and convergence errors in these simulations.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c04372},
journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry. B},
number = 38,
volume = 125,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Mon Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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