Stabilization of reactive sp carbon chains

P Tarakeshwar, M Meneghetti, J Wu, RL Whetten… - Carbon, 2023 - Elsevier
We describe a novel strategy for stabilizing the long-elusive, condensed-state materials
consisting of sp carbon chains. High-level ab initio calculations indicate that covalent …

[HTML][HTML] Performing highly efficient Minima Hopping structure predictions using the Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE)

M Krummenacher, M Gubler, JA Finkler, H Huber… - SoftwareX, 2024 - Elsevier
In materials science, the quest to find stable low energy structures is of great significance.
Over the past two decades, the Minima Hopping algorithm has emerged as a successful tool …

Targeting high symmetry in structure predictions by biasing the potential energy surface

H Huber, M Sommer-Jörgensen, M Gubler… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Ground-state structures found in nature are, in many cases, of high symmetry. But structure
prediction methods typically render only a small fraction of high-symmetry structures …

Experimental absence of the non-perovskite ground state phases of MaPbI 3 explained by a Funnel Hopping Monte Carlo study based on a neural network potential

JA Finkler, S Goedecker - Materials Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Methylammonium lead iodide is a material known for its exceptional opto-electronic
properties that make it a promising candidate for many high performance applications, such …

The ternary phase diagram of nitrogen doped lutetium hydrides can not explain its claimed high TC superconductivity

M Gubler, M Krummenacher, JA Finkler… - New Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents the results of an extensive structural search of ternary solids containing
lutetium, nitrogen and hydrogen. Based on thousands of thermodynamically stable …

Noise-Tolerant Force Calculations in Density Functional Theory: A Surface Integral Approach for Wavelet-Based Methods

M Gubler, JA Finkler, SR Jensen… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We introduce a method for computing quantum mechanical forces through surface integrals
over the stress tensor within the framework of the density functional theory. This approach …

Implications of the multi-minima character of molecular crystal phases onto the free energy

M Krummenacher, M Sommer-Jörgensen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
In recent years, significant advancements in computational methods have dramatically
enhanced the precision in determining the energetic ranking of different phases of molecular …

Machine Learning in Atomistic Simulations: Enabling the Description of Charge Transfer Effects and Sampling Multi Funnel Systems with Global Monte Carlo Moves

JA Finkler - 2023 - edoc.unibas.ch
In recent years, machine learned potentials (MLPs) have seen tremendous progress and
rapid adoption by the materials science community. Due to their high speed and accuracy …