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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 44: Modelling and Simulation of Soft Matter II (joint session CPP/DY)

DY 44.2: Talk

Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 15:15–15:30, ZEU 255

BoltzmaNN: Heuristic inverse design of pair potentials using neural networks — •Fabian Berressem, Mihir Khadilkar, and Arash Nikoubashman — Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

In this work, we investigate the use of neural networks (NNs) to devise effective equations of state from a given isotropic pair potential using the virial expansion of the pressure. We train the NNs with data from molecular dynamics simulations, sampled in the NVT ensemble at densities covering both the gas- and liquid-like regime. We find that the NNs provide much more accurate results compared to the analytic estimate of the second virial coefficient derived in the low density limit. Further, we design and train NNs for computing the potential of mean force from the radial pair distribution function, g(r), a procedure which is often performed for coarse-graining applications. Here, we find that a good choice for the loss function is crucial for an accurate prediction of the pair potentials. In both use cases, we study in detail how providing additional information about forces and the density impacts the performance of the NNs. We find that including this additional information greatly increases the quality of the predictions, since more correlations are taken into account. Further, the predicted potentials become smoother and are in general much closer to the target potential.