A charge-density machine-learning workflow for computing the infrared spectrum of molecules

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Main Authors: Hazra, Suman, Patil, Urvesh, Sanvito, Stefano
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author Hazra, Suman
Patil, Urvesh
Sanvito, Stefano
author_facet Hazra, Suman
Patil, Urvesh
Sanvito, Stefano
contents We present a machine-learning workflow for the calculation of the infrared spectrum of molecules, and more generally of other temperature-dependent electronic observables. The main idea is to use the Jacobi-Legendre cluster expansion to predict the real-space charge density of a converged density-functional-theory calculation. This gives us access to both energy and forces, and to electronic observables such as the dipole moment or the electronic gap. Thus, the same model can simultaneously drive a molecular dynamics simulation and evaluate electronic quantities along the trajectory, namely it has access to the same information of ab-initio molecular dynamics. A similar approach within the framework of machine-learning force fields would require the training of multiple models, one for the molecular dynamics and others for predicting the electronic quantities. The scheme is implemented here within the numerical framework of the PySCF code and applied to the infrared spectrum of the uracil molecule in the gas phase.
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spellingShingle A charge-density machine-learning workflow for computing the infrared spectrum of molecules
Hazra, Suman
Patil, Urvesh
Sanvito, Stefano
Chemical Physics
Quantum Physics
We present a machine-learning workflow for the calculation of the infrared spectrum of molecules, and more generally of other temperature-dependent electronic observables. The main idea is to use the Jacobi-Legendre cluster expansion to predict the real-space charge density of a converged density-functional-theory calculation. This gives us access to both energy and forces, and to electronic observables such as the dipole moment or the electronic gap. Thus, the same model can simultaneously drive a molecular dynamics simulation and evaluate electronic quantities along the trajectory, namely it has access to the same information of ab-initio molecular dynamics. A similar approach within the framework of machine-learning force fields would require the training of multiple models, one for the molecular dynamics and others for predicting the electronic quantities. The scheme is implemented here within the numerical framework of the PySCF code and applied to the infrared spectrum of the uracil molecule in the gas phase.
title A charge-density machine-learning workflow for computing the infrared spectrum of molecules
topic Chemical Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16565