Normalizing flows for atomic solids

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08696v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:54:49 GMT
• Title: Normalizing flows for atomic solids
• Authors: Peter Wirnsberger, George Papamakarios, Borja Ibarz, S\'ebastien Racani\`ere, Andrew J. Ballard, Alexander Pritzel, Charles Blundell
• Abstract summary: We present a machine-learning approach, based on normalizing flows, for modelling atomic solids. We report Helmholtz free energy estimates for cubic and hexagonal ice modelled as monatomic water as well as for a truncated and shifted Lennard-Jones system. Our results thus demonstrate that normalizing flows can provide high-quality samples and free energy estimates of solids, without the need for multi-staging or for imposing restrictions on the crystal geometry.
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• Abstract: We present a machine-learning approach, based on normalizing flows, for modelling atomic solids. Our model transforms an analytically tractable base distribution into the target solid without requiring ground-truth samples for training. We report Helmholtz free energy estimates for cubic and hexagonal ice modelled as monatomic water as well as for a truncated and shifted Lennard-Jones system, and find them to be in excellent agreement with literature values and with estimates from established baseline methods. We further investigate structural properties and show that the model samples are nearly indistinguishable from the ones obtained with molecular dynamics. Our results thus demonstrate that normalizing flows can provide high-quality samples and free energy estimates of solids, without the need for multi-staging or for imposing restrictions on the crystal geometry.

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