HetSys Publications and Articles
Papers and articles written or contributed to by HetSys students are below.
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2026
CMI Baer, R Shantsila, L Figiel and B Karasulu,
鈥淎tomistic insights into the chemical stability and ionic transport at Li-metal/Li-Argyrodite interfaces鈥,
(2026).
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F Birks, M Nutter, TD Swinburne and JR Kermode,
鈥淓fficient and Accurate Spatial Mixing of Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials for Materials Science鈥,
npj Computational Materials (2026).
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CD Woodgate, HJ Naguszewski and NF Piwek,
鈥淓lectronic structure, phase stability, and transport properties of the AlTiVCr lightweight high-entropy alloy: A computational study鈥,
arXiv preprint arXiv 鈥 (2026).
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2025
VG Fletcher, AP Bart贸k and LB P谩rtay,
鈥淎utonomous thermodynamically informed database generation for machine-learned interatomic potentials and application to magnesium鈥,
npj Computational Materials, 12(1), 36 (2025).
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T Rocke and JR Kermode,
鈥淏ayesian selection for efficient MLIP dataset selection鈥,
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 33(5), 055020 (2025).
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HJ Naguszewski, LB P谩rtay, D Quigley and CD Woodgate,
鈥淏raWl: Simulating the thermodynamics and phase stability of multicomponent alloys using conventional and enhanced sampling techniques鈥,
Journal of Open Source Software, 10(116), 8346 (2025).
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X Wu, Y Lei and P Wang,
鈥淐orrelative 4D-STEM Ptychography and EELS for Cryogenic Single-Particle Analysis鈥,
bioRxiv (2025).
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A Deblais, K Xie, P Lewin-Jones, D Aarts and MA Herrada,
鈥淓arly stages of drop coalescence鈥,
Physical Review Fluids, 10(4), L042001 (2025).
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CD Woodgate, HJ Naguszewski, D Redka, J Min谩r, D Quigley and JB Staunton,
鈥淓mergent B2 chemical orderings in the AlTiVNb and AlTiCrMo refractory high-entropy superalloys studied via first-principles theory and atomistic modelling鈥,
Journal of Physics: Materials, 8(4), 045002 (2025).
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C Qian, V Vitartas, J Kermode and RJ Maurer,
鈥淓quivariant Electronic Hamiltonian Prediction with Many-Body Message Passing鈥,
arXiv preprint arXiv 鈥 (2025).
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M Hymas, J Eller, M Salehi, R Omidyan, S Poigny and VG Stavros,
鈥淓xcited state deactivation in phytochemical flavonoids: astragalin and kaempferol鈥,
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 27(30), 15895-15905 (2025).
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M Radova, WG Stark, CS Allen, RJ Maurer and AP Bart贸k,
鈥淔ine-tuning foundation models of materials interatomic potentials with frozen transfer learning鈥,
npj Computational Materials, 11(1), 237 (2025).
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Z Koczor-Benda, S Chaudhuri, J Gilkes, F Bartucca, L Li and RJ Maurer,
鈥淕enerative design of functional organic molecules for terahertz radiation detection鈥,
Digital Discovery, 4(10), 2852-2863 (2025).
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B Gosling, TD Arber, G Cristoforetti, P Nicola茂 and LA Gizzi,
鈥淟aser鈥損lasma instabilities driven by 1蠅鈧 pulses at shock ignition conditions鈥,
Physics of Plasmas, 32(9), 092705 (2025).
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CS Allen and AP Bart贸k,
鈥淢ulti-phase dataset for bulk Ti and the Ti-6Al-4V alloy鈥,
Scientific Data, 12(1), 1925 (2025).
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O Holroyd, R Cimpeanu and SN Gomes,
鈥淣on-linear estimators for the observation and stabilisation of falling liquid films鈥,
Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Science, 481(2327), 20250539 (2025).
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BP Klein, MA Stoodley, J Deyerling, LA Rochford, DB Morgan, D Hopkinson, S Sullivan-Allsop, H Thake, F Eratam, L Sattler, SM Weber, G Hilt, A Generalov, A Preobrajenski, T Liddy, LBS Williams, MA Buchan, GA Rance, T Lee, A Saywell, R Gorbachev, SJ Haigh, CS Allen, W Auw盲rter, RJ Maurer and DA Duncan,
鈥淥ne-step synthesis of graphene containing topological defects鈥,
Chemical Science, 16(41), 19403-19413 (2025).
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SJ Magorrian, A Siddiqui and NDM Hine,
鈥淪trong atomic reconstruction in twisted bilayers of highly flexible InSe: Machine-learned interatomic potential and continuum model approaches鈥,
Physical Review Materials, 9(1), 014004 (2025).
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Z Koczor-Benda, J Gilkes, F Bartucca, A Al-Fekaiki and RJ Maurer,
鈥淪tructural bias in three-dimensional autoregressive generative machine learning of organic molecules鈥,
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 65(13), 6644-6654 (2025).
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NJ Wrathall, J Eller, JE Barker, NDN Rodrigues, RK O鈥橰eilly, NDM Hine and VG Stavros,
鈥淭owards elucidating the solar instability of the anti-fungal food preservative natamycin: insights from spectroscopy鈥,
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 27(45), 24350-24359 (2025).
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J Gilkes, M Storr, RJ Maurer and S Habershon,
鈥淯nderstanding and improving transferability in machine-learned activation energy predictors鈥,
arXiv preprint arXiv 鈥 (2025).
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A Siddiqui, C Xu, SJ Magorrian and NDM Hine,
鈥淯nderstanding domain reconstruction of twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers through machine-learned interatomic potentials鈥,
2D Materials, 12(4), 045016 (2025).
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I Obomighie, IJ Prentice, P Lewin-Jones, F Bachtiger, N Ramsay, C Kishi-Itakura, MW Goldberg, TJ Hawkins, JE Sprittles, H Knight and GC Sosso,
鈥淯nderstanding pectin cross-linking in plant cell walls鈥,
Communications Biology, 8(1), 72 (2025).
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KE Blow, GC Sosso and D Quigley,
鈥淵ou reap what you sow: On the impact of nuclei morphology on seeded molecular dynamics simulations鈥,
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 162(18), 184503 (2025).
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P Bellchambers, L Ammon, A Fitkin, M Dingley, M Walker, S Abrahamczyk, C Pritchard, GC Sosso and RA Hatton,
鈥淶inc Grid Based Transparent Electrodes for Organic Photovoltaics鈥,
Advanced Energy Materials, 16(3), 2405148 (2025).
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2024
L Shenoy, CD Woodgate, JB Staunton, AP Bart贸k, CS Becquart, C Domain and JR Kermode,
鈥淐ollinear-spin machine learned interatomic potential forFe7Cr2Nialloy鈥,
Physical Review Materials, 8(3), 033804 (2024).
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P Lewin-Jones, DA Lockerby and JE Sprittles,
鈥淐ollision of liquid drops: bounce or merge?鈥,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 995, A1 (2024).
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CD Woodgate and JB Staunton,
鈥淐ompetition between phase ordering and phase segregation in the TixNbMoTaW and TixVNbMoTaW refractory high-entropy alloys鈥,
Journal of Applied Physics, 135(13), 135106 (2024).
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Z Fakhoury, GC Sosso and S Habershon,
鈥淐ontact-map-driven exploration of heterogeneous protein-folding paths鈥,
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, acs.jctc.4c00878 (2024).
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G Anis, T Hudson and P Brommer,
鈥淒islocation dynamics in Ni: Parameterizing dislocation trajectories from atomistic simulations鈥,
Physical Review Materials, 8(12), 123604 (2024).
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XR Advincula, KE Blow, M Bonn, AT Bui, Y Cheng, SJ Cox, F Della Pia, U Diebold, L Fumagalli, G Goel, JA Hayton, Y Jiang, V Kapil, N Kavokine, K Koga, D Laage, M Lahav, S Miao, A Michaelides, P Montero de Hijes, K Morgenstern, T Mukherjee, N O'Neill, D Pan, PM Piaggi, SLB Rempe, M Salvalaglio, CG Salzmann, T Sayer, M Shepelenko, GC Sosso, S Wang, B Webber, AP Willard and Y Yao,
鈥淒ynamics and nano-rheology of interfacial water: General discussion鈥,
Faraday Discussions, 249, 243-266 (2024).
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M Harrison, M Riva, M Mousavi Nezhad and A Guadagnini,
鈥淓stimation of auto-covariance of log hydraulic conductivity from Generalized Sub-Gaussian porosity and particle size random fields鈥,
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 480(2282), 20230476 (2024).
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A Fisher, JB Staunton, H Wu and P Brommer,
鈥淔irst Principles Validation of Energy Barriers in Ni75Al25鈥,
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 32(6), 065024 (2024).
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N Sarmadi, M Harrison, M Mousavi Nezhad and QJ Fisher,
鈥淗ydraulic fracture propagation in layered heterogeneous rocks with spatially non-gaussian random hydromechanical features鈥,
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 57(10), 8117-8140 (2024).
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XR Advincula, EHG Backus, T Bartels-Rausch, S Benaglia, G Ben Ari, KE Blow, M Bonn, AT Bui, SJ Cox, F Della Pia, U Diebold, AR Finney, G Franceschi, L Fumagalli, G Goel, JA Hayton, C Holdship, Y Jiang, D Jin, V Kapil, N Kavokine, K Koga, D Laage, M Lahav, S Miao, A Michaelides, N Mohandas, K Morgenstern, T Mukherjee, Y Nagata, M Olvera de la Cruz, D Pan, PM Piaggi, SLB Rempe, P Ryan, CG Salzmann, T Sayer, RJ Saykally, M Shepelenko, GC Sosso, TF Whale, JJ White, AP Willard and P Zhang,
鈥淚ce interfaces: General discussion鈥,
Faraday Discussions, 249, 133-161 (2024).
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T Matsumoto and TJ Sullivan,
鈥淚mages of Gaussian and other stochastic processes under closed, densely-defined, unbounded linear operators鈥,
Analysis and Applications, 22(03), 619-633 (2024).
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CD Woodgate, LH Lewis and JB Staunton,
鈥淚ntegrated ab initio modelling of atomic order and magnetic anisotropy for rare-earth-free magnet design: effects of alloying additions in FeNi鈥,
arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.02809 (2024).
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CD Woodgate, LH Lewis and JB Staunton,
鈥淚ntegrated ab initio modelling of atomic ordering and magnetic anisotropy for design of FeNi-based magnets鈥,
npj Computational Materials, 10(1), 272 (2024).
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M Nutter, JR Kermode and AP Bart贸k,
鈥淜ink-Helium Interactions in Tungsten: Opposing Effects of Assisted Nucleation and Hindered Migration鈥,
arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08368 (2024).
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OA Holroyd, R Cimpeanu and SN Gomes,
鈥淟inear quadratic regulation control for falling liquid films鈥,
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 84(3), 940-960 (2024).
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P Lewin-Jones,
鈥淟iquid drop impacts: when trapped gas nanofilms lead to bouncing鈥,
(2024).
Article
C Maino, N Hine and V Stavros,
鈥淢achine Learned Interatomic Potentials to Predict Solvatochromic and Stokes Shifts鈥,
APS March Meeting 鈥 (2024).
Article
A Siddiqui and NDM Hine,
鈥淢achine-learned interatomic potentials for transition metal dichalcogenide Mo1鈭抶WxS2鈭2ySe2y alloys鈥,
npj Computational Materials, 10(1), 169 (2024).
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J Liu, JE Sprittles and T Grafke,
鈥淢ean first passage times and Eyring鈥揔ramers formula for fluctuating hydrodynamics鈥,
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2024(10), 103206 (2024).
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E Saho, S Hindmarsh, A Sanchez, F Birks, JR Kermode, M Dale, D Fisher and R Beanland,
鈥淢icrocracks in CVD diamond produced by scaife polishing鈥,
Diamond and Related 鈥 (2024).
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CD Woodgate,
鈥淢odelling Atomic Arrangements in Multicomponent Alloys鈥,
Springer Series in Materials Science (2024).
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CD Woodgate,
鈥淢odelling atomic arrangements in multicomponent alloys: A perturbative, first-principles-based approach鈥,
(2024).
Article
J Gilkes, MT Storr, RJ Maurer and S Habershon,
鈥淧redicting long-time-scale kinetics under variable experimental conditions with Kinetica. jl鈥,
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 20(12), 5196-5214 (2024).
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BP Klein, MA Stoodley, DB Morgan, LA Rochford, LBS Williams, PTP Ryan, L Sattler, SM Weber, G Hilt, TJ Liddy, T Lee, RJ Maurer and DA Duncan,
鈥淧robing the role of surface termination in the adsorption of azupyrene on copper鈥,
Nanoscale, 16(11), 5802-5812 (2024).
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CD Woodgate, GA Marchant, LB P谩rtay and JB Staunton,
鈥淪tructure, short-range order, and phase stability of the AlxCrFeCoNi high-entropy alloy: insights from a perturbative, DFT-based analysis鈥,
npj Computational Materials, 10(1), 271 (2024).
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IR Best, TJ Sullivan and JR Kermode,
鈥淯ncertainty Quantification in Atomistic Simulations of Silicon using Interatomic Potentials鈥,
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 161(6), 064112 (2024).
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KE Blow, TF Whale, D Quigley and GC Sosso,
鈥淯nderstanding the Impact of Ammonium Ion Substitutions on Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation鈥,
Faraday Discussions, 249, 114-132 (2024).
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P Grigorev, L Fr茅rot, F Birks, A Gola, J Golebiowski, J Grie脽er, JL H枚rmann, A Klemenz, G Moras, WG N枚hring, JA Oldenstaedt, P Patel, T Reichenbach, T Rocke, L Shenoy, M Walter, S Wengert, L Zhang, JR Kermode and L Pastewka,
鈥渕atscipy: materials science at the atomic scale with Python鈥,
Journal of Open Source Software, 9(93), 5668 (2024).
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2023
I Ismail,
鈥淎ccelerating chemical reaction discovery using graph-driven searches and machine learning strategies鈥,
(2023).
Article
A Rajkumar, P Brommer and 艁 Figiel,
鈥淎n extensible density-biasing approach for molecular simulations of multicomponent block copolymers鈥,
Soft Matter, 19(8), 1569-1585 (2023).
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I Ismail, S Chaudhuri, D Morgan, CD Woodgate, Z Fakhoury, JM Targett, C Pilgrim and C Maino,
鈥淓at, sleep, code, repeat: tips for early-career researchers in computational science鈥,
The European Physical Journal Plus, 138(12), 1094 (2023).
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Z Fakhoury, GC Sosso and S Habershon,
鈥淕enerating protein folding trajectories using contact-map-driven directed walks鈥,
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 63(7), 2181-2195 (2023).
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J Westermayr, J Gilkes, R Barrett and RJ Maurer,
鈥淗igh-throughput property-driven generative design of functional organic molecules鈥,
Nature Computational Science, 3(2), 139-148 (2023).
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CD Woodgate, D Hedlund, LH Lewis and JB Staunton,
鈥淚nterplay between magnetism and short-range order in medium-and high-entropy alloys: CrCoNi, CrFeCoNi, and CrMnFeCoNi鈥,
Physical Review Materials, 7(5), 053801 (2023).
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KE Blow, GA Tribello, GC Sosso and D Quigley,
鈥淚nterplay of multiple clusters and initial interface positioning for forward flux sampling simulations of crystal nucleation鈥,
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158(22), 224102 (2023).
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CD Woodgate, CE Patrick, LH Lewis and JB Staunton,
鈥淩evisiting N茅el 60 years on: The magnetic anisotropy of L10 FeNi (tetrataenite)鈥,
Journal of Applied Physics, 134(16), 163905 (2023).
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JE Sprittles, J Liu, DA Lockerby and T Grafke,
鈥淩ogue nanowaves: A route to film rupture鈥,
Physical Review Fluids, 8(9), L092001 (2023).
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CD Woodgate and JB Staunton,
鈥淪hort-range order and compositional phase stability in refractory high-entropy alloys via first-principles theory and atomistic modeling: NbMoTa, NbMoTaW, and 鈥︹,
Physical Review Materials, 7(1), 013801 (2023).
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J Liu, C Zhao, DA Lockerby and JE Sprittles,
鈥淭hermal capillary waves on bounded nanoscale thin films鈥,
Physical Review E, 107(1), 015105 (2023).
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2022
CD Woodgate and JB Staunton,
鈥淐ompositional phase stability in medium-entropy and high-entropy Cantor-Wu alloys from an ab initio all-electron Landau-type theory and atomistic modeling鈥,
Physical Review B, 105(11), 115124 (2022).
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C Zhao, J Liu, DA Lockerby and JE Sprittles,
鈥淔luctuation-driven dynamics in nanoscale thin-film flows: physical insights from numerical investigations鈥,
Physical Review Fluids, 7(2), 024203 (2022).
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I Ismail, R Chantreau Majerus and S Habershon,
鈥淕raph-Driven Reaction Discovery: Progress, Challenges, and Future Opportunities鈥,
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 126(40), 7051-7069 (2022).
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C Allen and AP Bart贸k,
鈥淥ptimal data generation for machine learned interatomic potentials鈥,
Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 3(4), 045031 (2022).
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I Ismail, C Robertson and S Habershon,
鈥淪uccesses and challenges in using machine-learned activation energies in kinetic simulations鈥,
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 157(1), 014109 (2022).
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2021
GA Marchant, CD Woodgate, CE Patrick and JB Staunton,
鈥淎b initio calculations of the phase behavior and subsequent magnetostriction of within the disordered local moment picture鈥,
Physical Review B, 103(9), 094414 (2021).
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KE Blow, D Quigley and GC Sosso,
鈥淭he seven deadly sins: When computing crystal nucleation rates, the devil is in the details鈥,
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 155(4), 040901 (2021).
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