Journal
COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 193, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2020.110256
Keywords
Uncertainty quantification; Thermal activation; Diffusion; Accelerated methods
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Funding
- Agence Nationale de Recherche, via the MEMOPAS project [ANR-19-CE46-0006-1]
- Euratom research and training programme 2019-2020 [633053]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy through Advanced Computing (Sci-DAC) project on Fission Gas Behavior
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science through Advanced Computing (Sci-DAC) project on Fission Gas Behavior
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research through the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (Sci-DAC) project on Fission Gas Behavior
- U.S. DOE [89233218CNA0000001]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-19-CE46-0006] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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This review summarizes recent efforts towards quantifying the uncertainty of atomic trajectories in condensed phase systems. Bayesian methods are shown to measure sampling incompleteness rigorously, manage parallel simulations autonomously, and evaluate activation free energy with full treatment of anharmonic thermal vibrations. These freely available methods have been demonstrated on a wide range of challenging materials science problems.
The atomic trajectories of condensed phase systems often reduce to long periods of thermal vibration interspersed by transitions between local free energy minima. The resultant rare event dynamics are exponentially sensitive to the catalog of available transitions, meaning incomplete models can make catastrophically erroneous predictions. This review summarises some recent efforts towards quantifying this uncertainty. I show that Bayesian methods can rigorously measure sampling incompleteness, be propagated to yield a quantified prediction uncertainty and autonomously manage massively parallel simulations. These methods allow uncertaintycontrolled investigation of complex atomistic processes with minimal end-user supervision, facilitating highthroughput workflows. For individual transitions rates, I also show how the activation free energy can be evaluated with full treatment of anharmonic thermal vibrations. The developed methods, all freely available, are demonstrated on a wide range of challenging materials science problems.
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