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A fundamental characteristic of matter is its ability to form ordered structures under the right thermodynamic conditions. Predicting these structures - and their properties - from the attributes of a material's building blocks is the holy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-13 Pablo F. Damasceno , Michael Engel , Sharon C. Glotzer

One-dimensional metal-organic chains often possess a complex magnetic structure susceptible to be modified by a alteration of their chemical composition. The possibility to tune their magnetic properties provides an interesting playground…

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

A previous work [1] experimentally confirmed that the special polarization characteristic features of a three-dimensional terahertz (THz) photonic crystal with a silicon inverse diamond structure whose lattice point shape was vacant regular…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-20 Chikara Sakurai

Black phosphorus has attracted great research interest due to its numerous applications in electronic devices, optoelectronic devices, energy storages and so on. Compared with the majority of two-dimensional materials, black phosphorus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Zhen Tian , Yu Gan , Taiming Zhang , Binbin Wang , Hengxing Ji , Yexin Feng , Jiamin Xue

With few systems of technological interest having been studied as extensively as elemental silicon, there currently exists a wide disparity between the number of predicted low-energy silicon polymorphs and those, which have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-08 Eric Jones , Vladan Stevanovic

Polymorphism, the ability of a compound to crystallize in multiple distinct structures, plays a vital role in determining the physical, chemical, and functional properties of materials. Accurate identification and prediction of polymorphic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-15 Sourin Dey , Nicholas Miklaucic , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Rongzhi Dong , Lai Wei , Qinyang Li , Nihang Fu , Jianjun Hu

In this paper we consider functions of the type $$f(x) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty a_n g(b_nx+\theta_n),$$ where $(a_n)$ are independent random variables uniformly distributed on $(-a^n, a^n)$ for some $0<a<1$, $b_{n+1}/b_n \geq b >1$, $a^2b> 1$…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Julia Romanowska

The focus of the article is on analysis of skew-symmetric weight matrix functions for interfacial cracks in two dimensional anisotropic solids. It is shown that the Stroh formalism proves to be an efficient approach to this challenging…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 Lorenzo Morini , Enrico Radi , Alexander Movchan , Natalia Movchan

Froth flotation predominantly separates particles according to their differences in wettability. However, other particle properties such as size, shape or density significantly influence the separation outcome as well. Froth flotation is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-24 Johanna Sygusch , Thomas Wilhelm , Orkun Furat , Kai Bachmann , Volker Schmidt , Martin Rudolph

We calculated a four-point correlation function G_4(k,r;t) and the corresponding structure factor S_4(k,q;t) for a model glass-forming binary mixture. These functions measure the spatial correlations of the relaxation of different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Elijah Flenner , Grzegorz Szamel

In this paper, we predict the effect of texture on the anisotropy in plastic properties of polycrystalline metallic sheets. The constituent grain behavior is modelled using the new single crystal yield criterion developed by Cazacu, Revil,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 Nitin Chandola , Oana Cazacu , Benoit Revil-Baudard

Binary metallic phosphide, Nb2P5, belongs to technologically important class of materials. Quite surprisingly, a large number of physical properties of Nb2P5, including elastic properties and their anisotropy, acoustic, electronic (DOS,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-31 M. I. Naher , S. H. Naqib

Anisotropy in granular materials arises from both the internal fabric and the directionality of the stress state, yet separating these effects experimentally remains challenging. This study develops a first-order linearisation of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-09 Mehdi Pouragha , Gertraud Medicus , Selvarajah Premnath , Siva Sivathayalan

Recent advances in Foundation Models for Materials Science are poised to revolutionize the discovery, manufacture, and design of novel materials with tailored properties and responses. Although great strides have been made, successes have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Michael Buzzy , Andreas Robertson , Peng Chen , Surya Kalidindi

Normal mode analysis offers an efficient way of modeling the conformational flexibility of protein structures. Simple models defined by contact topology, known as elastic network models, have been used to model a variety of systems, but the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Dmitry A. Kondrashov , Adam W. Van Wynsberghe , Ryan M. Bannen , Qiang Cui , George N. Phillips

The development and implementation of the methods for designing amorphous metal alloys with desired mechanical properties is one of the most promising areas of modern materials science. Here, the machine learning methods appear to be a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-16 B. N. Galimzyanov , M. A. Doronina , A. V. Mokshin

Atom probe tomography data is composed of a list of coordinates of the reconstructed atoms in the probed volume. The elemental identity of each atom is derived from time-of-flight mass spectrometry, with no local energetic or chemical…

We introduce weighted atom-centered symmetry functions (wACSFs) as descriptors of a chemical system's geometry for use in the prediction of chemical properties such as enthalpies or potential energies via machine learning. The wACSFs are…

We report our numerical results for the effect of magnetic anisotropy on a Skyrmion crystal with a high topological number of two, which was recently discovered in an itinerant electron model [R. Ozawa, S. Hayami, and Y. Motome, Phys. Rev.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Satoru Hayami , Yukitoshi Motome