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We develop efficient, accurate, transferable, and interpretable machine learning force fields for Au nanoparticles, based on data gathered from Density Functional Theory calculations. We then use them to investigate the thermodynamic stability of Au nanoparticles of different sizes (1 to 6 nm), containing up to 6266 atoms, with respect to a solid-liquid phase change through molecular dynamics simulations. We predict nanoparticle melting temperatures in good agreement with respect to available experimental data. Furthermore, we characterize in detail the solid to liquid phase change mechanism employing an unsupervised learning scheme to categorize local atomic environments. We thus provide a rigorous and data-driven definition of liquid atomic arrangements in the inner and surface regions of a nanoparticle, and employ it to show that melting initiates at the outer layers.
As data science and machine learning methods are taking on an increasingly important role in the materials research community, there is a need for the development of machine learning software tools that are easy to use (even for nonexperts with no pr
We show how standard Metadynamics coupled with classical Molecular Dynamics can be successfully ap- plied to sample the configurational and free energy space of metallic and bimetallic nanopclusters via the implementation of collective variables rela
The analysis of defects and defect dynamics in crystalline materials is important for fundamental science and for a wide range of applied engineering. With increasing system size the analysis of molecular-dynamics simulation data becomes non-trivial.
Accurate simulations of isotropic permanent magnets require to take the magnetization process into account and consider the anisotropic, nonlinear, and hysteretic material behaviour near the saturation configuration. An efficient method for the solut
We describe extensions to the siesta density functional theory (dft) code [30], for the simulation of isolated molecules and their absorption spectra. The extensions allow for: - Use of a multi-grid solver for the Poisson equation on a finite dft mes