Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) simulations are of great interest for the dynamic properties of molecular and solid systems. However, BOMD simulations necessitate not only an extensive period of dynamical evolution but also costly self-consistent-field (SCF) electronic structure calculations, especially for hybrid functional-based BOMD (H-BOMD) simulations within plane-wave basis sets. Here, we propose an improved always stable predictor-corrector (ASPC) method for the wave function extrapolation to accelerate the plane-wave H-BOMD simulations, named projected ASPC (PASPC), yielding a wave function closer to the actual solution space and efficiently reducing the number of SCF iterations at each MD step. We investigated the convergence properties of different extrapolation schemes for molecular and solid systems. Numerical results demonstrate that plane-wave H-BOMD simulations can be significantly faster than conventional cases by combining the accelerated algorithms with the PASPC method. The energy drift is also evaluated, showing that PASPC produces energy drift with smaller oscillations and can simulate a larger time step for systems containing heavy atoms, demonstrating the accuracy of the extrapolation schemes. Furthermore, H-BOMD simulations showcase more accurate power and infrared spectra of silicon dioxide and liquid water that are comparable to those of experimental measurements.

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