An
accurate, generalizable, and transferable force field plays
a crucial role in the molecular dynamics simulations of organic polymers
and biomolecules. Conventional empirical force fields often fail to
capture precise intermolecular interactions due to their negligence
of important physics, such as polarization, charge penetration, many-body
dispersion, etc. Moreover, the parameterization of these force fields
relies heavily on top-down fittings, limiting their transferabilities
to new systems where the experimental data are often unavailable.
To address these challenges, we introduce a general and fully ab initio
force field construction strategy, named PhyNEO. It features a hybrid
approach that combines both the physics-driven and the data-driven
methods and is able to generate a bulk potential with chemical accuracy
using only quantum chemistry data of very small clusters. Careful
separations of long-/short-range interactions and nonbonding/bonding
interactions are the key to the success of PhyNEO. By such a strategy,
we mitigate the limitations of pure data-driven methods in long-range
interactions, thus largely increasing the data efficiency and the
scalability of machine learning models. The new approach is thoroughly
tested on poly(ethylene oxide) and polyethylene glycol systems, giving
superior accuracies in both microscopic and bulk properties compared
to conventional force fields. This work thus offers a promising framework
for the development of advanced force fields in a wide range of organic
molecular systems.