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We present a method for obtaining well-localized Wannier-like functions (WFs) for energy bands that are attached to or mixed with other bands. The present scheme removes the limitation of the usual maximally-localized WFs method (N. Marzari…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Ivo Souza , Nicola Marzari , David Vanderbilt

Computational virtual high-throughput screening (VHTS) with density functional theory (DFT) and machine-learning (ML)-acceleration is essential in rapid materials discovery. By necessity, efficient DFT-based workflows are carried out with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-25 Chenru Duan , Shuxin Chen , Michael G. Taylor , Fang Liu , Heather J. Kulik

The automation of ab initio simulations is essential in view of performing high-throughput (HT) computational screenings oriented to the discovery of novel materials with desired physical properties. In this work, we propose algorithms and…

While standard computational protocols for density functional theory (DFT) have universal applicability, differences exist in code implementations. Specific applications require manual parameter optimization, whereas high-throughput…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 Chenxi Lu , Musen Li , Jeffrey R. Reimers

Numerical simulations can help solve complex problems. Most of these algorithms are massively parallel and thus good candidates for FPGA acceleration thanks to spatial parallelism. Modern FPGA devices can leverage high-bandwidth memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Stephanie Soldavini , Karl F. A. Friebel , Mattia Tibaldi , Gerald Hempel , Jeronimo Castrillon , Christian Pilato

Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) are gradually evolving towards enabling molecular dynamics simulations of molecules and materials with ab initio accuracy but at a small fraction of the computational cost. However, several challenges…

Localized Wannier functions provide an efficient and intuitive means by which to compute dielectric properties from first principles. They are most commonly constructed in a post-processing step, following total-energy minimization.…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-16 David D. O'Regan , Mike C. Payne , Arash A. Mostofi

Machine learning (ML) models utilizing structure-based features provide an efficient means for accurate property predictions across diverse chemical spaces. However, obtaining equilibrium crystal structures typically requires expensive…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-22 Yunxing Zuo , Mingde Qin , Chi Chen , Weike Ye , Xiangguo Li , Jian Luo , Shyue Ping Ong

We propose a novel approach called Self-Learning Hybrid Monte Carlo (SLHMC) which is a general method to make use of machine learning potentials to accelerate the statistical sampling of first-principles density-functional-theory (DFT)…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-05 Yuki Nagai , Masahiro Okumura , Keita Kobayashi , Motoyuki Shiga

Highly accurate force fields are a mandatory requirement to generate predictive simulations. In this regard, Machine Learning Force Fields (MLFFs) have emerged as a revolutionary approach in computational chemistry and materials science,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Carlos A. Vital , Román J. Armenta-Rico , Huziel E. Sauceda

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulates the time evolution of atomic systems governed by interatomic forces, and the fidelity of these simulations depends critically on the underlying force model. Classical force fields (CFFs) rely on fixed…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Udari De Alwis , Benjamin E. Mayer , Tom J. Ashby , Maria Barrera , Timon Evenblij , Joyjit Kundu

The marriage of density functional theory (DFT) and deep learning methods has the potential to revolutionize modern computational materials science. Here we develop a deep neural network approach to represent DFT Hamiltonian (DeepH) of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-02 He Li , Zun Wang , Nianlong Zou , Meng Ye , Runzhang Xu , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

We discuss how to construct tight-binding models for ultra cold atoms in honeycomb potentials, by means of the maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) for composite bands introduced by Marzari and Vanderbilt [1]. In particular, we…

Moir\'e-twisted materials have garnered significant research interest due to their distinctive properties and intriguing physics. However, conducting first-principles studies on such materials faces challenges, notably the formidable…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-10 Ting Bao , Runzhang Xu , He Li , Xiaoxun Gong , Zechen Tang , Jingheng Fu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

A non-iterative method is presented to calculate the closest Wannier functions (CWFs) to a given set of localized guiding functions, such as atomic orbitals, hybrid atomic orbitals, and molecular orbitals, based on minimization of a…

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Machine Learning Workflows (MLWfs) have become essential and a disruptive approach in problem-solving over several industries. However, the development process of MLWfs may be complicated, hard to achieve, time-consuming, and error-prone.…

Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is a powder-bed additive manufacturing technique whose part quality depends critically on feedstock morphology. However, conventional powder characterization methods are low-throughput and qualitative, failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Emmanuel Akeweje , Conall Kirk , Chi-Wai Chan , Denis Dowling , Mimi Zhang

This work presents a multi-layered methodology for efficiently accelerating multimodal foundation models (MFMs). It combines hardware and software co-design of transformer blocks with an optimization pipeline that reduces computational and…

High-throughput approximations of quantum mechanics calculations and combinatorial experiments have been traditionally used to reduce the search space of possible molecules, drugs and materials. However, the interplay of structural and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Alain Tchagang , Julio Valdés

Decades accumulation of theory simulations lead to boom in material database, which combined with machine learning methods has been a valuable driver for the data-intensive material discovery, i.e., the fourth research paradigm. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-10 Tiancheng Ma , Zihan Zhang , Shuting Wu , Defang Duan , Tian Cui