Constructing and Evaluating Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials for Li-Based Disordered Rocksalts.

Lithium-based disordered rocksalts (LDRs), which are an important class of positive electrode materials that can increase the energy density of current Li-ion batteries, represent a significantly complex chemical and configurational space for conventional density functional theory (DFT)-based high-throughput screening approaches. Notably, atom-centered machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are a promising pathway to accurately model the potential energy surface of highly disordered chemical spaces, such as LDRs, where the performance of such MLIPs has not been rigorously explored yet. Here, we represent a comprehensive evaluation of the accuracy, transferability, and ease of training of five atom-centered MLIPs, including the artificial neural network potentials developed by the atomic energy network (AENET), the Gaussian approximation potential (GAP), the spectral neighbor analysis potential (SNAP) and its quadratic extension (qSNAP), and the moment tensor potential (MTP), in modeling a 11-component LDR chemical space.