Publications by Justin Villard

Structure and dynamics of liquid water from ab initio simulations: adding Minnesota density functionals to Jacob's ladder

Ursula Röthlisberger, Justin Villard, Martin Peter Bircher

The accurate representation of the structural and dynamical properties of water is essential for simulating the unique behavior of this ubiquitous solvent. Here we assess the current status of describing liquid water using ab initio molecular dynamics, wit ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Surrogate Based Genetic Algorithm Method for Efficient Identification of Low-Energy Peptide Structures

Ursula Röthlisberger, Murat Kiliç, Justin Villard

Identification of the most stable structure(s) of a system is a prerequisite for the calculation of any of its properties from first-principles. However, even for relatively small molecules, exhaustive explorations of the potential energy surface (PES) are ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Plane Waves Versus Correlation-Consistent Basis Sets: A Comparison of MP2 Non-Covalent Interaction Energies in the Complete Basis Set Limit

Ursula Röthlisberger, Justin Villard, Martin Peter Bircher

Second-order Moller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) is the most expedient wave function-based method for considering electron correlation in quantum chemical calculations and, as such, provides a cost-effective framework to assess the effects of basis se ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Advancing Computational Chemistry with Stochastic and Artificial Intelligence Approaches

Justin Villard

Computational chemistry aims to simulate reactions and molecular properties at the atomic scale, advancing the design of novel compounds and materials with economic, environmental, and societal implications. However, the field relies on approximate quantum ...

EPFL2023

Recent Advances in First-Principles Based Molecular Dynamics

Ursula Röthlisberger, Viacheslav Bolnykh, Justin Villard, François Louis Mouvet

First-principles molecular dynamics (FPMD) and its quantum mechanical-molecular mechanical (QM/MM) extensions are powerful tools to follow the real-time dynamics of a broad variety of systems in their ground as well as electronically excited states. The co ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Efficient Treatment of Correlation Energies at the Basis-Set Limit by Monte Carlo Summation of Continuum States

Ursula Röthlisberger, Justin Villard, Martin Peter Bircher

The calculation of electron correlation is vital for the description of atomistic phenomena in physics, chemistry, and biology. However, accurate wavefunction-based methods exhibit steep scaling and often sluggish convergence with respect to the basis set ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020