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Rings comprising chemically bonded atoms are essential topological motifs for the structural ordering of network-forming materials. Quantification of such larger motifs beyond short-range pair correlation is essential for understanding the…

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Short-range order in strongly disordered structures plays an important role in their heat conduction property. Using numerical and analytical methods, we show that short-range spatial correlation (with a correlation length of $\Lambda_{m}$)…

Drawing inspiration from nature, where some organisms can control the short range order of amorphous minerals, we successfully manipulated the short range order of amorphous alumina by surface and size effects. By utilizing the Atomic Layer…

We investigate transport properties of topologically disordered, three-dimensional, one-particle, tight binding models, featuring site distance dependent hopping terms. We start from entirely disordered systems into which we gradually…

Direct comparison of scanning tunneling microscopy and high resolution core level photo-emission experiments provides a rationale for the mechanism of formation of a two dimensional (2D) binary alloy (1/3 mono-layer (ML) Sn(1-…

We consider unsupervised learning methods for characterizing the disordered microscopic structure of supercooled liquids and glasses. Specifically, we perform dimensionality reduction of smooth structural descriptors that describe radial…

The single-site Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Coherent Potential Approximation (KKR-CPA) ignores short range ordering present in disordered metallic systems. In this paper, we establish a new technique to fix this shortcoming by embedding an…

Short range order and topology of Ge$_x$S$_{100-x}$ glasses over a broad composition range (20 $\le$ x $\le$ 42 in at%) was investigated by neutron diffraction, X-ray diffraction, and Ge K-edge extended X-ray absorption fine structure…

Molecular dynamics simulations using an interatomic potential developed by artificial neural network deep machine learning are performed to study the local structural order in Al90Tb10 metallic glass. We show that more than 80% of the…

Alloying compound AX with another compound BX is widely used to tune material properties. For disordered alloys, due to the lack of periodicity, it has been challenging to calculate and study their material properties. Special quasi-random…

Multi-principal-element alloys, including high-entropy alloys, experience segregation or partially-ordering as they are cooled to lower temperatures. For Ti$_{0.25}$CrFeNiAl$_{x}$, experiments suggest a partially-ordered B2 phase, whereas…

We introduce a global optimization approach for binary clusters that for a given cluster size is able to directly search for the structure and composition that has the greatest stability. We apply this approach to binary Lennard-Jones…

High entropy oxides (HEOs) are a rapidly growing class of compositionally complex ceramics in which configurational disorder is engineered to unlock novel functionality. While average crystallographic symmetry is often retained, local…