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2026 Particle View of Many-Body Electronic Structure with Neural Network Wave Function Zichen Wang, Weizhong Fu, Zhe Li, Weiluo Ren, Ji Chen, Phys. Rev. X 16 , 31048 (2026).Integral variable-range hopping for modeling electrical transport in disordered systems Chenxin Qin, Chenyan Wang, Mouyang Cheng, Ji Chen, Phys. Rev. Applied 26 , 024027 (2026).Empowering neural network-based quantum Monte Carlo with local pseudopotentials Weizhong Fu et al. , Nat Comput Sci 1-10 (2026).Nitrogen-doped amorphous carbon as atomically thin monolithic membrane Yihan Wang et al. , Matter 102911 (2026).Dataset distillation for machine learning force field in phase transition regime Ruiyang Chen, Qingyuan Zhang, Ji Chen, J. Chem. Phys. 164 , 244113 (2026).Towards stable and accurate electron dynamics via neural network based time-dependent variational Monte Carlo Weizhong Fu et al. , arXiv:2606.05850 (2026).Deep learning calculation for many-body electronic structure in condensed matter Zichen Wang, Ji Chen, Physics 55 , 313-324 (2026).Topological invariant of periodic many body wavefunction from charge pumping simulation Haoxiang Chen, Yubing Qian, Weiluo Ren, Xiang Li, Ji Chen, arXiv:2604.08702 (2026).Hessian-informed machine learning interatomic potential towards bridging theory and experiments Bangchen Yin et al. , arXiv:2603.25373 (2026).Examining density wave correlations in high pressure La3 Ni2 O7 through variational Monte Carlo Yanxin Chen, Haoxiang Chen, Tonghuan Jiang, Ji Chen, Phys. Rev. B 113 , 125143 (2026).Permutation invariant multi-scale full quantum neural network wavefunction Pengzhen Cai et al. , arXiv:2603.12233 (2026).Variational calculations of the excited states of the charged NV-center in diamond using a hybrid functional Lei Sun, Elvar Örn Jónsson, Aleksei Ivanov, Ji Chen, Hannes Jónsson, Solid State Sciences 176 , 108269 (2026).Beyond overcomplication: a linear model suffices to decode hidden structure-property relationships in glasses Chenyan Wang, Mouyang Cheng, Ji Chen, arXiv:2602.05313 (2026).2025 Stochastic representation of time-evolving neural network-based wavefunctions Bizi Huang, Weizhong Fu, Ji Chen, J. Chem. Phys. 163 , 244107 (2025).Deep-learning electronic structure calculations Zechen Tang et al. , Nat Comput Sci 5 , 1133-1146 (2025).Central cell corrections to shallow acceptor states in silicon including noncubic terms Jianhua Zhu, Ji Chen, Andrew J. Fisher, Phys. Rev. B 112 , 235202 (2025).Spin-Adapted Neural Network Wavefunctions in Real Space Ruichen Li et al. , arXiv:2511.01671 (2025).Down to one network for computing crystalline materials Yubing Qian, Ji Chen, Nat Comput Sci 5 , 1098-1099 (2025).A multi-resolution systematically improvable quantum embedding scheme for large-scale surface chemistry calculations Zigeng Huang et al. , Nat Commun 16 , 9297 (2025).Individual and Cooperative Superexchange Enhancement in Cuprates Tonghuan Jiang, Nikolay A. Bogdanov, Ali Alavi, Ji Chen, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 21 , 9364-9375 (2025).Eliminating Defect States in Monolayer Tungsten Diselenide by Coupling with a c-Plane Sapphire Surface Chen Huang et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 135 , 126201 (2025).Molecularly resolved mapping of heterogeneous ice nucleation and crystallization pathways using in-situ cryo-TEM Zibing Wang et al. , Nat Commun 16 , 7349 (2025).Emergent Wigner phases in moiré superlattice from deep learning Xiang Li, Yubing Qian, Weiluo Ren, Yang Xu, Ji Chen, Commun Phys 8 , 364 (2025).Quantum Many-Body Simulations of Catalytic Metal Surfaces Changsu Cao et al. , arXiv:2508.13036 (2025).Neural Scaling Laws Surpass Chemical Accuracy for the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation Du Jiang et al. , arXiv:2508.02570 (2025).Deep Learning Sheds Light on Integer and Fractional Topological Insulators Xiang Li et al. , arXiv:2503.11756 (2025).Simulated Atomistic Growth of Amorphous Monolayer Carbon Jiani Hu et al. , J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 16 , 6866-6873 (2025).Probing the quantum critical phase with neural network wavefunctions Haoxiang Chen, Weiluo Ren, Xiang Li, Ji Chen, Phys. Rev. B 111 , 245152 (2025).Nuclear quantum effects in two-hydrogen intermediates on graphene-embedded transition metal atoms Erxun Han, Wei Fang, Ji Chen, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 27 , 12542-12549 (2025).ByteQC: GPU-Accelerated Quantum Chemistry Package for Large-Scale Systems Zhen Guo et al. , WIREs Computational Molecular Science 15 , e70034 (2025).Predicting Macroscopic Properties of Amorphous Monolayer Carbon via Pair Correlation Function Mouyang Cheng et al. , Chinese Phys. Lett. 42 , 066101 (2025).Describing Landau Level Mixing in Fractional Quantum Hall States with Deep Learning Yubing Qian et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 , 176503 (2025).Commensurate to incommensurate transition of three-dimensional charge density waves Hao Wang, Qiang Luo, Ji Chen, Phys. Rev. B 111 , L161112 (2025).Towards an accurate electronic structure of single photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride Yilin Chen et al. , Phys. Rev. Res. 7 , L012079 (2025).Deep Learning Quantum Monte Carlo for Solids Yubing Qian, Xiang Li, Zhe Li, Weiluo Ren, Ji Chen, WIREs Comput Mol Sci 15 , e70015 (2025).Polycyclic Molecule Chemical Vapor Deposition of Amorphous Monolayer Carbon Zhenjiang Li et al. , Advanced Functional Materials 35 , 2424751 (2025).2024 Spin-symmetry-enforced solution of the many-body Schrödinger equation with a deep neural network Zhe Li et al. , Nat Comput Sci 4 , 910-919 (2024).Ultracompact Electrical Double Layers at TiO2 (110) Electrified Interfaces Immad M. Nadeem et al. , J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146 , 33443-33451 (2024).Force and stress calculations with a neural-network wave function for solids Yubing Qian, Xiang Li, Ji Chen, Faraday Discuss. 254 , 529-541 (2024).Unveiling sulfur vacancy pairs as bright and stable color centers in monolayer WS2 Huacong Sun et al. , Nat Commun 15 , 9476 (2024).In Situ Closing the van der Waals Gap of Two-Dimensional Materials Shengqiang Wu et al. , J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146 , 28398-28406 (2024).Regulating Anderson localization with structural defect disorder Mouyang Cheng, Haoxiang Chen, Ji Chen, Chinese Phys. B 33 , 107201 (2024).One-dimensional Dexter-type excitonic topological phase transition Jianhua Zhu, Haoxiang Chen, Ji Chen, Wei Wu, Phys. Rev. B 110 , 85418 (2024).Degree of disorder-regulated ion transport through amorphous monolayer carbon Shizhuo Liu et al. , RSC Adv. 14 , 17032-17040 (2024).Imaging surface structure and premelting of ice Ih with atomic resolution Jiani Hong et al. , Nature 630 , 375-380 (2024).Electric Polarization from a Many-Body Neural Network Ansatz Xiang Li, Yubing Qian, Ji Chen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132 , 176401 (2024).Atomic-scale observation of localized phonons at FeSe/SrTiO3 interface Ruochen Shi et al. , Nat Commun 15 , 3418 (2024).A computational framework for neural network-based variational Monte Carlo with Forward Laplacian Ruichen Li et al. , Nat Mach Intell 6 , 209-219 (2024).Variance extrapolation method for neural-network variational Monte Carlo Weizhong Fu, Weiluo Ren, Ji Chen, Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 5 , 015016 (2024).Origin of dielectric polarization suppression in confined water from first principles T. Dufils et al. , Chem. Sci. 15 , 516-527 (2024).Nanoscale one-dimensional close packing of interfacial alkali ions driven by water-mediated attraction Ye Tian et al. , Nat. Nanotechnol. 19 , 479-484 (2024).2023 Mechanistic insight on water dissociation on pristine low-index TiO2 surfaces from machine learning molecular dynamics simulations Zezhu Zeng et al. , Nat Commun 14 , 6131 (2023).Phonon transition across an isotopic interface Ning Li et al. , Nat Commun 14 , 2382 (2023).Spin singlet pairing of bismuth in titania Jing Chang, Haoxiang Chen, Peng Gao, Ji Chen, The Journal of Chemical Physics 159 , 174709 (2023).Understanding the wetting of transition metal dichalcogenides from an ab initio perspective Siheng Li, Keyang Liu, Jiří Klimeš, Ji Chen, Phys. Rev. Research 5 , 23018 (2023).Multiconfigurational nature of electron correlation within nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond Yilin Chen et al. , Phys. Rev. B 108 , 045111 (2023).Hydrogen-Bond-Mediated Surface Functionalization of Boron Nitride Micro-Lamellae toward High Thermal Conductive Papers Shulei Yu et al. , Adv Materials Inter 10 , 2202196 (2023).Tracking cubic ice at molecular resolution Xudan Huang et al. , Nature 617 , 86-91 (2023).Graphic Characterization and Clustering Configuration Descriptors of Determinant Space for Molecules Lei Sun, Zixi Zhang, Tonghuan Jiang, Yilin Chen, Ji Chen, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 19 , 2282-2290 (2023).Towards the ground state of molecules via diffusion Monte Carlo on neural networks Weiluo Ren, Weizhong Fu, Xiaojie Wu, Ji Chen, Nat Commun 14 , 1860 (2023).Disorder-tuned conductivity in amorphous monolayer carbon Huifeng Tian et al. , Nature 615 , 56-61 (2023).Towards an accurate description of one-dimensional pnictogen allotropes in nano-confinements Jing Chang, Tonghuan Jiang, Wei Fang, Ji Chen, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 25 , 9256-9263 (2023).Effects of Localized Interface Phonons on Heat Conductivity in Ingredient Heterogeneous Solids Mei Wu et al. , Chinese Phys. Lett. 40 , 36801 (2023).Room-Temperature Metal-Catalyzed Ultrafast Gasification of Ultrathin Boron Flakes Shizhuo Liu et al. , Adv Funct Materials 33 , 2210729 (2023).2022 Heteroepitaxy of semiconducting 2H-MoTe2 thin films on arbitrary surfaces for large-scale heterogeneous integration Yu Pan et al. , Nat. Synth 1 , 701-708 (2022).Interatomic force from neural network based variational quantum Monte Carlo Yubing Qian, Weizhong Fu, Weiluo Ren, Ji Chen, The Journal of Chemical Physics 157 , 164104 (2022).Visualizing Eigen/Zundel cations and their interconversion in monolayer water on metal surfaces Ye Tian et al. , Science 377 , 315-319 (2022).General Analytical Nuclear Forces and Molecular Potential Energy Surface from Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo Tonghuan Jiang, Wei Fang, Ali Alavi, Ji Chen, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 18 , 7233-7242 (2022).Ab initio calculation of real solids via neural network ansatz Xiang Li, Zhe Li, Ji Chen, Nat Commun 13 , 7895 (2022).One-dimensional structures in nanoconfinement Jing Chang, Ji Chen, Acta Phys. Sin. 71 , 126101 (2022).Quantum Tunnelling Driven H2 Formation on Graphene Erxun Han, Wei Fang, Michail Stamatakis, Jeremy O. Richardson, Ji Chen, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13 , 3173-3181 (2022).General embedded cluster protocol for accurate modeling of oxygen vacancies in metal-oxides Benjamin X. Shi et al. , The Journal of Chemical Physics 156 , 124704 (2022).The first-principles phase diagram of monolayer nanoconfined water Venkat Kapil et al. , Nature 609 , 512-516 (2022).Fermionic neural network with effective core potential Xiang Li, Cunwei Fan, Weiluo Ren, Ji Chen, Phys. Rev. Research 4 , 013021 (2022).Onset of metallic transition in molecular liquid hydrogen Jianqing Guo, Bingqing Cheng, Limei Xu, Enge Wang, Ji Chen, arXiv:2201.03157 (2022).2021 Measuring phonon dispersion at an interface Ruishi Qi et al. , Nature 599 , 399-403 (2021).Deep vacancy induced low-density fluxional interfacial water Keyang Liu, Jianqing Guo, Weizhong Fu, Ji Chen, Phys. Rev. Research 3 , L042014 (2021).A full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo study of ScO, TiO, and VO molecules Tonghuan Jiang et al. , The Journal of Chemical Physics 154 , 164302 (2021).Seeded 2D epitaxy of large-area single-crystal films of the van der Waals semiconductor 2H MoTe2 Xiaolong Xu et al. , Science 372 , 195-200 (2021).Microscopic Kinetics Pathway of Salt Crystallization in Graphene Nanocapillaries Lifen Wang et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 , 136001 (2021).2020 The color center singlet state of oxygen vacancies in TiO2 Ji Chen et al. , The Journal of Chemical Physics 153 , 204704 (2020).Hydration of NH4 + in Water: Bifurcated Hydrogen Bonding Structures and Fast Rotational Dynamics Jianqing Guo et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 , 106001 (2020).Synthesis of Honeycomb-Structured Beryllium Oxide via Graphene Liquid Cells Lifen Wang et al. , Angew Chem Int Ed 59 , 15734-15740 (2020).Probing the intermolecular coupled vibrations in a water cluster with inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy Jing Guo et al. , The Journal of Chemical Physics 152 , 234301 (2020).Origins of fast diffusion of water dimers on surfaces Wei Fang et al. , Nat Commun 11 , 1689 (2020).Small polarons and the Janus nature of TiO2 (110) Ji Chen, Christopher Penschke, Ali Alavi, Angelos Michaelides, Phys. Rev. B 101 , 115402 (2020).Atomic imaging of the edge structure and growth of a two-dimensional hexagonal ice Runze Ma et al. , Nature 577 , 60-63 (2020).2019 One-Dimensional Pnictogen Allotropes inside Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Martin Hart et al. , Inorg. Chem. 58 , 15216-15224 (2019).Advances in Atomic Force Microscopy: Weakly Perturbative Imaging of the Interfacial Water Duanyun Cao et al. , Front. Chem. 7 , 626 (2019).The quantum nature of hydrogen Wei Fang, Ji Chen, Yexin Feng, Xin-Zheng Li, Angelos Michaelides, International Reviews in Physical Chemistry 38 , 35-61 (2019).
Ji Chen’s publications before 2019 2018 Sticky when wet Ji Chen, Angelos Michaelides, Nature Chem 10 , 376-377 (2018).One-Dimensional Arsenic Allotropes: Polymerization of Yellow Arsenic Inside Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Martin Hart et al. , Angew Chem Int Ed 57 , 11649-11653 (2018).Visualization of Water-Induced Surface Segregation of Polarons on Rutile TiO2 (110) Chi M. Yim et al. , J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9 , 4865-4871 (2018).The effect of hydration number on the interfacial transport of sodium ions Jinbo Peng et al. , Nature 557 , 701-705 (2018).The collective and quantum nature of proton transfer in the cyclic water tetramer on NaCl(001) Yexin Feng et al. , The Journal of Chemical Physics 148 , 102329 (2018).2017 Hydrogenation Facilitates Proton Transfer through Two-Dimensional Honeycomb Crystals Yexin Feng et al. , J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8 , 6009-6014 (2017).Simultaneous Deep Tunneling and Classical Hopping for Hydrogen Diffusion on Metals Wei Fang, Jeremy O. Richardson, Ji Chen, Xin-Zheng Li, Angelos Michaelides, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 , 126001 (2017).Encapsulation and Polymerization of White Phosphorus Inside Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Martin Hart et al. , Angewandte Chemie 129 , 8256-8260 (2017).Double-layer ice from first principles Ji Chen, Georg Schusteritsch, Chris J. Pickard, Christoph G. Salzmann, Angelos Michaelides, Phys. Rev. B 95 , 94121 (2017).2016 Evidence for stable square ice from quantum Monte Carlo Ji Chen, Andrea Zen, Jan Gerit Brandenburg, Dario Alfè, Angelos Michaelides, Phys. Rev. B 94 , 220102 (2016).Inverse Temperature Dependence of Nuclear Quantum Effects in DNA Base Pairs Wei Fang et al. , J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7 , 2125-2131 (2016).Crystal Nucleation in Liquids: Open Questions and Future Challenges in Molecular Dynamics Simulations Gabriele C. Sosso et al. , Chem. Rev. 116 , 7078-7116 (2016).Nuclear quantum effects of hydrogen bonds probed by tip-enhanced inelastic electron tunneling Jing Guo et al. , Science 352 , 321-325 (2016).Two Dimensional Ice from First Principles: Structures and Phase Transitions Ji Chen, Georg Schusteritsch, Chris J. Pickard, Christoph G. Salzmann, Angelos Michaelides, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 , 025501 (2016).2015 Supercritical phenomenon of hydrogen beyond the liquid–liquid phase transition Renzhong Li, Ji Chen, Xinzheng Li, Enge Wang, Limei Xu, New J. Phys. 17 , 063023 (2015).Nuclear quantum effects on the high pressure melting of dense lithium Yexin Feng, Ji Chen, Dario Alfè, Xin-Zheng Li, Enge Wang, The Journal of Chemical Physics 142 , 064506 (2015).Direct visualization of concerted proton tunnelling in a water nanocluster Xiangzhi Meng et al. , Nature Phys 11 , 235-239 (2015).2014 On the room-temperature phase diagram of high pressure hydrogen: An ab initio molecular dynamics perspective and a diffusion Monte Carlo study Ji Chen, Xinguo Ren, Xin-Zheng Li, Dario Alfè, Enge Wang, The Journal of Chemical Physics 141 , 024501 (2014).An unconventional bilayer ice structure on a NaCl(001) film Ji Chen et al. , Nat Commun 5 , 4056 (2014).Real-space imaging of interfacial water with submolecular resolution Jing Guo et al. , Nature Mater 13 , 184-189 (2014).2013 Quantum simulation of low-temperature metallic liquid hydrogen Ji Chen et al. , Nat Commun 4 , 2064 (2013).Nature of proton transport in a water-filled carbon nanotube and in liquid water Ji Chen, Xin-Zheng Li, Qianfan Zhang, Angelos Michaelides, Enge Wang, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 15 , 6344 (2013).