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Michel Côté

Associate Academic Member
Université de Montréal
Research Topics
Computational Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Molecular Modeling
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Current Students

Azin Kazemi Moridani
PhD - Université de Montréal
Olivier Nadeau
Postdoctorate - Université de Montréal
Dounia Shaaban Kabakibo
PhD - Université de Montréal
Co-supervisor :
Alex Hernandez-Garcia
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Surya Prasad Timilsina
PhD - Université de Montréal
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Publications

A Comparative Study of Molecular Dynamics Approaches for Simulating Ionic Conductivity in Solid Lithium Electrolytes
Dounia Shaaban Kabakibo
Félix Therrien
Yoshua Bengio
Michel Côté
Hongyu Guo
Homin Shin
Alex Hernandez-Garcia
Accurate prediction of ionic conductivity is critical for the design of highperformance solid-state electrolytes in next-generation batterie… (see more)s. We benchmark molecular dynamics (MD) approaches for computing ionic conductivity in 21 lithium solid electrolytes for which experimental ionic conductivity has been previously reported in the literature. Specifically, we compare simulations driven by density functional theory (DFT) and by universal machine-learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs), namely a MACE foundation model. Our results suggest comparable performance between DFT and MACE, with MACE requiring only a fraction of the computational cost. The framework developed here is designed to enable systematic comparisons with additional uMLIPs and fine-tuned models in future work.
2026-03-01
AI4Mat @ International Conference on Learning Representations (poster)
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