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ArticleJournal of chemical theory and computation2023

Application of the FFLUX Force Field to Molecular Crystals: A Study of Formamide.

Matthew L Brown, Jonathan M Skelton, Paul L A Popelier

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  7. A computationally efficient quasi-harmonic study of ice polymorphs using the FFLUX force field.Acta crystallographica. Section A, Foundations and advances · 2025
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Matthew L BrownDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, Britain.ORCID 0000-0002-9352-8976
Jonathan M SkeltonDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, Britain.ORCID 0000-0002-0395-1202
Paul L A PopelierDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, Britain.ORCID 0000-0001-9053-1363

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Abstract

In this work, we present the first application of the quantum chemical topology force field FFLUX to the solid state. FFLUX utilizes Gaussian process regression machine learning models trained on data from the interacting quantum atom partitioning scheme to predict atomic energies and flexible multipole moments that change with geometry. Here, the ambient (α) and high-pressure (β) polymorphs of formamide are used as test systems and optimized using FFLUX. Optimizing the structures with increasing multipolar ranks indicates that the lattice parameters of the α phase differ by less than 5% to the experimental structure when multipole moments up to the quadrupole are used. These differences are found to be in line with the dispersion-corrected density functional theory. Lattice dynamics calculations are also found to be possible using FFLUX, yielding harmonic phonon spectra comparable to dispersion-corrected DFT while enabling larger supercells to be considered than is typically possible with first-principles calculations. These promising results indicate that FFLUX can be used to accurately determine properties of molecular solids that are difficult to access using DFT, including the structural dynamics, free energies, and properties at finite temperature.

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