dpti, an open-source Python package that automates TI workflows for phase diagram calculations with MLIPs, and provides a useful tool for automated phase diagram calculations of materials modeled by MLIPs.
Abstract
Thermodynamic integration (TI) is a widely used approach for computing free energies and phase diagrams. However, TI calculations driven by machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) remain technically challenging because they require careful design of reversible integration paths and many closely related molecular dynamics (MD) tasks for each phase and state point. To address these challenges, we present dpti, an open-source Python package that automates TI workflows for phase diagram calculations with MLIPs. dpti connects reference systems with analytically known free energies to MLIP-described atomic and molecular solids and liquids through reversible integration paths. Given JSON input files, dpti generates and runs the required MD tasks, computes free energy contributions, estimates errors, and propagates coexistence points into phase boundaries. We demonstrate the usage of dpti with two examples driven by Deep Potential models: a silica phase diagram involving beta-quartz, coesite, and melt, and the ice Ih-liquid water phase boundary. dpti provides a useful tool for automated phase diagram calculations of materials modeled by MLIPs.
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