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The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes has been extended to include a total of 1,100 common crystal structural prototypes (510 new ones with Part 3), comprising all of the inorganic crystal structures defined in the seven-volume…

Solving black-box optimization problems with Ising machines is increasingly common in materials science. However, their application to crystal structure prediction (CSP) is still ineffective due to symmetry agnostic encoding of atomic…

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The computational design of materials with ionic bonds poses a critical challenge to thermodynamic modeling since density functional theory yields inaccurate predictions of their formation enthalpies. Progress requires leveraging physically…

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We have developed a symmetry-adapted modeling procedure for molecules and crystals. By using the completeness of multipoles to express spatial and time-reversal parity-specific anisotropic distributions, we can generate systematically the…

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Modern telescopes generate increasingly large and diverse datasets, often consisting of complex and morphologically rich structures. To efficiently explore such data requires automated methods that can extract and organize physically…

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The ability to understand the atomistic mechanisms that occur in the solid phase transition is of crucial importance in materials research. To investigate the displacive phase transition at the atomic scale, we have implemented a numerical…

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Many robotics applications require alignment and fusion of observations obtained at multiple views to form a global model of the environment. Multi-way data association methods provide a mechanism to improve alignment accuracy of pairwise…

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The application of generative models in crystal structure prediction (CSP) has gained significant attention. Conditional generation--particularly the generation of crystal structures with specified stability or other physical properties has…

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Machine learning interatomic potentials have revolutionized complex materials design by enabling rapid exploration of material configurational spaces via crystal structure prediction with ab initio accuracy. However, critical challenges…

The recently developed information-theoretic approach to crystallographic symmetry classifications and quantifications in two dimensions (2D) from digital transmission electron and scanning probe microscope images is adapted for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-15 Peter Moeck , Lukas von Koch

An algorithm for determining crystal structures from diffraction data is described which does not rely on the usual Fourier-space formulations of atomicity. The new algorithm implements atomicity constraints in real-space, as well as…

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Organic molecular crystals underpin technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals to organic electronics, yet predicting solid-state packing of molecules remains challenging because candidate generation is combinatorial and stability is only…

Presented here is decryst, a software suite for structure determination from powder diffraction, which uses the direct space method, and is able to apply anti-bump constraints automatically and efficiently during the procedure of global…

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Determining crystal symmetry from powder X-ray diffraction is a central problem in materials characterization, yet multiple space groups can produce indistinguishable patterns, making automated classification difficult. We show that…

We introduce CrystalFormer, a transformer-based autoregressive model specifically designed for space group-controlled generation of crystalline materials. By explicitly incorporating space group symmetry, CrystalFormer greatly reduces the…

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The prediction of crystal properties is essential for understanding structure-property relationships and accelerating the discovery of functional materials. However, conventional approaches relying on experimental measurements or density…

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With the surge of multi- and manycores, much research has focused on algorithms for mapping and scheduling on these complex platforms. Large classes of these algorithms face scalability problems. This is why diverse methods are commonly…

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