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Crystal structures are characterized by atomic bases within a primitive unit cell that repeats along a regular lattice throughout 3D space. The periodic and infinite nature of crystals poses unique challenges for geometric graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Keqiang Yan , Cong Fu , Xiaofeng Qian , Xiaoning Qian , Shuiwang Ji

A structure prediction method is presented based on the Minima Hopping method. Optimized moves on the configurational enthalpy surface are performed to escape local minima using variable cell shape molecular dynamics by aligning the initial…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-02 Maximilian Amsler , Stefan Goedecker

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) stands as a powerful tool in materials science, driving the discovery and design of innovative materials. However, existing CSP methods heavily rely on formation enthalpies derived from density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-16 Chenglong Qin , Jinde Liu , Shiyin Ma , Jiguang Du , Gang Jiang , Liang Zhao

The relationship between structure and dynamics in glassy fluids remains an intriguing open question. Recent work has shown impressive advances in our ability to predict local dynamics using structural features, most notably due to the use…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-19 Rinske M. Alkemade , Frank Smallenburg , Laura Filion

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is crucial for identifying stable crystal structures in given systems and is a prerequisite for computational atomistic simulations. Recent advances in neural network potentials (NNPs) have reduced the…

In computational chemistry, crystal structure prediction (CSP) is an optimization problem that involves discovering the lowest energy stable crystal structure for a given chemical formula. This problem is challenging as it requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Han Qi , Xinyang Geng , Stefano Rando , Iku Ohama , Aviral Kumar , Sergey Levine

Crystal structure determines properties of materials. With the crystal structure of a chemical substance, many physical and chemical properties can be predicted by first-principles calculations or machine learning models. Since it is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane , Rongzhi Dong , Yuxin Li , Jianjun Hu

Efficient and precise prediction of plasticity by data-driven models relies on appropriate data preparation and a well-designed model. Here we introduce an unsupervised machine learning-based data preparation method to maximize the…

The problem addressed here can be concisely formulated as follows: given a stable surface orientation with a known reconstruction and given a direction in the plane of this surface, find the atomic structure of the steps oriented along that…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Briggs , C. V. Ciobanu

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) has proven to be a highly effective route for discovering new materials. Substantial advancements have been made in CSP of inorganic and molecular crystals, while hybrid materials, including metal-organic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-17 Elizaveta Yakovenko , Iurii Nevolin , Anatoliy Chasovskikh , Artem Mitrofanov , Vadim Korolev

We analyst in detail a new approach to the monitoring and forecasting of the onset of transitions in high dimensional complex systems (see Phys. Rev. Lett . vol. 113, 264102 (2014)) by application to the Tangled Nature Model of evolutionary…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-08-03 Duccio Piovani , Jelena Grujic , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Silver-based chalcohalide anti-perovskites (CAP), Ag$_{3}$BC (B = S, Se; C = Cl, Br, I), represent an emerging family of energy materials with intriguing optoelectronic, vibrational and ionic transport properties. However, the structural…

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) remains a fundamental challenge with significant implications for the development of new materials and the advancement of various scientific disciplines. Recent developments have shown that generative…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yang Liu , Chuan Zhou , Shuai Zhang , Peng Zhang , Xixun Lin , Shirui Pan

We present a new approach for predicting stable equilibrium shapes of crystalline islands on flat substrates, as commonly occur through solid-state dewetting of thin films. The new theory is a generalization of the widely used Winterbottom…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-23 Weizhu Bao , Wei Jiang , David J. Srolovitz , Yan Wang

Due to the subtle balance of intermolecular interactions that govern structure-property relations, predicting the stability of crystal structures formed from molecular building blocks is a highly non-trivial scientific problem. A…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Rose K. Cersonsky , Maria Pakhnova , Edgar A. Engel , Michele Ceriotti

Crystal structure prediction is a long-standing challenge in materials science, with most data-driven methods developed for inorganic systems. This leaves an important gap for organic crystals, which are central to pharmaceuticals,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar , Matthew A. McDonald , Feng Liu

Crystal structure prediction (CSP), which aims to predict the three-dimensional atomic arrangement of a crystal from its composition, is central to materials discovery and mechanistic understanding. However, given the composition in a unit…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-10 Shi Yin , Jinming Mu , Xudong Zhu , Linxin He

Crystal structure prediction has been a subject of topical interest, but remains a substantial challenge, especially for complex structures as it deals with the global minimization of the extremely rugged high-dimensional potential energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-26 Xuecheng Shao , Jian Lv , Peng Liu , Sen Shao , Pengyue Gao , Hanyu Liu , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

A novel Genetic Algorithm is described that is suitable for determining the global minimum energy configurations of crystal structures and which can also be used as a polymorph search technique. This algorithm requires no prior assumptions…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. L. Abraham , M. I. J. Probert

Metastable phases may be spontaneously formed from other metastable phases through nucleation. Here we demonstrate the spontaneous formation of a metastable phase from an unstable equilibrium by spinodal decomposition, which leads to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-10 Ricard Alert , Pietro Tierno , Jaume Casademunt