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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 14, Issue 39, Pages 8741-8748Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02424
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This study accelerates accurate calculations of density functional theory using deep neural network potentials and investigates the melting behavior of MgO under extreme high-pressure conditions. The results show excellent agreement between the predicted melting curve and existing experimental studies. Additionally, the deep neural network potentials successfully describe the metallization of MgO at increased pressures.
While accurate measurements of MgO under extreme high-pressure conditions are needed to understand and model planetary behavior, these studies are challenging from both experimental and computational modeling perspectives. Herein, we accelerate density functional theory (DFT) accurate calculations using deep neural network potentials (DNPs) trained over multiple phases and study the melting behavior of MgO via the two-phase coexistence (TPC) approach at 0-300 GPa and <= 9600 K. The resulting DNP-TPC melting curve is in excellent agreement with existing experimental studies. We show that the mitigation of finite-size effects that typically skew the predicted melting temperatures in DFT-TPC simulations in excess of several hundred kelvin requires models with similar to 16 000 atoms and >100 ps molecular dynamics trajectories. In addition, the DNP can successfully describe MgO metallization well at increased pressures that are captured by DFT but missed by classical interatomic potentials.
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