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Prediction of stable crystal structures at given pressure-temperature conditions, based only on the knowledge of the chemical composition, is a central problem of condensed matter physics. This extremely challenging problem is often termed…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 A. R. Oganov , Y. Ma , A. O. Lyakhov , M. Valle , C. Gatti

Evolutionary crystal structure prediction proved to be a powerful approach for studying a wide range of materials. Here, we present a specifically designed algorithm for the prediction of the structure of complex crystals consisting of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-21 Qiang Zhu , Artem R. Oganov , Colin W. Glass , Harold T. Stokes

The prediction of energetically stable crystal structures formed by a given chemical composition is a central problem in solid-state physics. In principle, the crystalline state of assembled atoms can be determined by optimizing the energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Minoru Kusaba , Chang Liu , Ryo Yoshida

Reliable and robust methods of predicting the crystal structure of a compound, based only on its chemical composition, is crucial to the study of materials and their applications. Despite considerable ongoing research efforts, crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-26 Qi-Jun Hong , Joseph Yasi , Axel van de Walle

A novel method for crystal structure prediction, based on metadynamics and evolutionary algorithms, is presented here. This technique can be used to produce efficiently both the ground state and metastable states easily reachable from a…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-08 Qiang Zhu , Artem R. Oganov , Andriy O. Lyakhov

The prediction of material structure from chemical composition has been a long-standing challenge in natural science. Although there have been various methodological developments and successes with computer simulations, the prediction of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-23 Naoto Tsujimoto , Daiki Adachi , Ryosuke Akashi , Synge Todo , Shinji Tsuneyuki

Stable or metastable crystal structures of assembled atoms can be predicted by finding the global or local minima of the energy surface within a broad space of atomic configurations. Generally, this requires repeated first-principles energy…

We have developed a powerful method for crystal structure prediction from "scratch" through particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm within the evolutionary scheme. PSO technique is dramatically different with the genetic algorithm and…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-11 Yanchao Wang , Jian Lv , Li Zhu , Yanming Ma

Predicting and characterizing the crystal structure of materials is a key problem in materials research and development. It is typically addressed with highly accurate quantum mechanical computations on a small set of candidate structures,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefano Curtarolo , Dane Morgan , Kristin Persson , John Rodgers , Gerbrand Ceder

We consider several patchy particle models that have been proposed in literature and we investigate their candidate crystal structures in a systematic way. We compare two different algorithms for predicting crystal structures: (i) an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Emanuela Bianchi , Guenther Doppelbauer , Laura Filion , Marjolein Dijkstra , Gerhard Kahl

We study Crystal Structure Prediction, one of the major problems in computational chemistry. This is essentially a continuous optimization problem, where many different, simple and sophisticated, methods have been proposed and applied. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Dmytro Antypov , Argyrios Deligkas , Vladimir Gusev , Matthew J. Rosseinsky , Paul G. Spirakis , Michail Theofilatos

Crystal structure prediction is a central problem of theoretical crystallography and materials science, which until mid-2000s was considered intractable. Several methods, based on either energy landscape exploration$^{1,2}$ or, more…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-26 Ivan A. Kruglov , Alexey V. Yanilkin , Yana Propad , Artem R. Oganov

Crystal structure prediction algorithms have become powerful tools for materials discovery in recent years, however, they are usually limited to relatively small systems. The main challenge is that the number of local minima grows…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-09 Hao Gao , Junjie Wang , Yu Han , Jian Sun

Metastable materials are abundant in nature and technology, showcasing remarkable properties that inspire innovative materials design. However, traditional crystal structure prediction methods, which rely solely on energetic factors to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-27 Busheng Wang , Katerina P. Hilleke , Samad Hajinazar , Gilles Frapper , Eva Zurek

Determining the stability of chemical compounds is essential for advancing material discovery. In this study, we introduce a novel deep neural network model designed to predict a crystal's formation energy, which identifies its stability…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-21 V. Torlao , E. A. Fajardo

Experimentally obtained X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns can be difficult to solve, precluding the full characterization of materials, pharmaceuticals, and geological compounds. Herein, we propose a method based upon a multi-objective…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-09 Stefano Racioppi , Alberto Otero De la Roza , Samad Hajinazar , Eva Zurek

In this letter we propose a new methodology for crystal structure prediction, which is based on the evolutionary algorithm USPEX and the machine-learning interatomic potentials actively learning on-the-fly. Our methodology allows for an…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-06 Evgeny V. Podryabinkin , Evgeny V. Tikhonov , Alexander V. Shapeev , Artem R. Oganov

We have developed a software package CALYPSO (Crystal structure AnaLYsis by Particle Swarm Optimization) to predict the energetically stable/metastable crystal structures of materials at given chemical compositions and external conditions…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Yanchao Wang , Jian Lv , Li Zhu , Yanming Ma

Crystal structure prediction is a fundamental problem in materials science. We present CrystalFormer-CSP, an efficient framework that unifies data-driven heuristic and physics-driven optimization approaches to predict stable crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhendong Cao , Shigang Ou , Lei Wang

Determining crystal structures from powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) has been a significant challenge in materials science, particularly when experimental data contain noise or the target structure has a high complexity. While recent AI…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Kaixiang Su , Osman Goni Ridwan , Hongfei Xue , Qiang Zhu
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