A Transferable Machine-Learning Model of the Electron Density

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Autori principali: Grisafi, Andrea, Wilkins, David M., Meyer, Benjamin A. R., Fabrizio, Alberto, Corminboeuf, Clemence, Ceriotti, Michele
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author Grisafi, Andrea
Wilkins, David M.
Meyer, Benjamin A. R.
Fabrizio, Alberto
Corminboeuf, Clemence
Ceriotti, Michele
author_facet Grisafi, Andrea
Wilkins, David M.
Meyer, Benjamin A. R.
Fabrizio, Alberto
Corminboeuf, Clemence
Ceriotti, Michele
contents The electronic charge density plays a central role in determining the behavior of matter at the atomic scale, but its computational evaluation requires demanding electronic-structure calculations. We introduce an atom-centered, symmetry-adapted framework to machine-learn the valence charge density based on a small number of reference calculations. The model is highly transferable, meaning it can be trained on electronic-structure data of small molecules and used to predict the charge density of larger compounds with low, linear-scaling cost. Applications are shown for various hydrocarbon molecules of increasing complexity and flexibility, and demonstrate the accuracy of the model when predicting the density on octane and octatetraene after training exclusively on butane and butadiene. This transferable, data-driven model can be used to interpret experiments, initialize electronic structure calculations, and compute electrostatic interactions in molecules and condensed-phase systems.
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spellingShingle A Transferable Machine-Learning Model of the Electron Density
Grisafi, Andrea
Wilkins, David M.
Meyer, Benjamin A. R.
Fabrizio, Alberto
Corminboeuf, Clemence
Ceriotti, Michele
Chemical Physics
The electronic charge density plays a central role in determining the behavior of matter at the atomic scale, but its computational evaluation requires demanding electronic-structure calculations. We introduce an atom-centered, symmetry-adapted framework to machine-learn the valence charge density based on a small number of reference calculations. The model is highly transferable, meaning it can be trained on electronic-structure data of small molecules and used to predict the charge density of larger compounds with low, linear-scaling cost. Applications are shown for various hydrocarbon molecules of increasing complexity and flexibility, and demonstrate the accuracy of the model when predicting the density on octane and octatetraene after training exclusively on butane and butadiene. This transferable, data-driven model can be used to interpret experiments, initialize electronic structure calculations, and compute electrostatic interactions in molecules and condensed-phase systems.
title A Transferable Machine-Learning Model of the Electron Density
topic Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05349