Learning molecular dynamics: predicting the dynamics of glasses by a machine learning simulator
Han Liu, Zijie Huang, Samuel S. Schoenholz, Ekin D. Cubuk, Morten M. Smedskjær, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang, Mathieu Bauchy
Abstract
" to simulate complex glass dynamics solely from their static structure. By taking the example of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we successfully apply the OGN to predict atom trajectories evolving up to a few hundred timesteps and ranging over different families of complex atomistic systems, which implies that the atom dynamics is largely encoded in their static structure in disordered phases and, furthermore, allows us to explore the capacity of OGN simulations that is potentially generic to many-body dynamics. Importantly, unlike traditional numerical simulations, the OGN simulations bypass the numerical constraint of small integration timestep by a multiplier of ≥5 to conserve energy and momentum until hundreds of timesteps, thus leapfrogging the execution speed of MD simulations for a modest timescale.