Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Quantum Chemical Method with Broad Applicability

Abstract

High-level quantum mechanical (QM) calculations are indispensable for accurate explanation of natural phenomena on the atomistic level. Their staggering computational cost, however, poses great limitations, which luckily can be lifted to a great extent by exploiting advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Here we introduce the general-purpose, highly transferable artificial intelligence-quantum mechanical method 1 (AIQM1). It approaches the accuracy of the 'gold-standard' coupled cluster QM method with low computational speed of the approximate low-level semiempirical QM methods. AIQM1 can provide accurate groundstate energies for diverse organic compounds as well as geometries for even challenging systems such as large conjugated compounds (fullerene C60) close to experiment. Noteworthy, our method's accuracy is also good for ions and excited-state properties, although the neural network part of AIQM1 was never fitted to these properties.