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Practical applications of mechanical metamaterials often involve solving inverse problems where the objective is to find the (multiple) microarchitectures that give rise to a given set of properties. The limited resolution of additive…

From self-assembly and protein folding to combinatorial metamaterials, a key challenge in material design is finding the right combination of interacting building blocks that yield targeted properties. Such structures are fiendishly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-26 Ryan van Mastrigt , Marjolein Dijkstra , Martin van Hecke , Corentin Coulais

The rational design of molecules with desired properties is a long-standing challenge in chemistry. Generative neural networks have emerged as a powerful approach to sample novel molecules from a learned distribution. Here, we propose a…

In materials science, the challenge of rapid prototyping materials with desired properties often involves extensive experimentation to find suitable microstructures. Additionally, finding microstructures for given properties is typically an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Sébastien Bompas , Stefan Sandfeld

Detecting structures at the particle scale within plastically deformed crystalline materials allows a better understanding of the occurring phenomena. While previous approaches mostly relied on applying hand-chosen criteria on different…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-15 Armand Barbot , Riccardo Gatti

Computing atomic-scale properties of chemically disordered materials requires an efficient exploration of their vast configuration space. Traditional approaches such as Monte Carlo or Special Quasirandom Structures either entail sampling an…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Maciej J. Karcz , Luca Messina , Eiji Kawasaki , Emeric Bourasseau

Directly manipulating the atomic structure to achieve a specific property is a long pursuit in the field of materials. However, hindered by the disordered, non-prototypical glass structure and the complex interplay between structure and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-10 Qi Wang , Longfei Zhang

One of the greatest challenges facing our society is the discovery of new innovative crystal materials with specific properties. Recently, the problem of generating crystal materials has received increasing attention, however, it remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-08 Astrid Klipfel , Yaël Frégier , Adlane Sayede , Zied Bouraoui

The design of fusion devices is typically based on computationally expensive simulations. This can be alleviated using high aspect ratio models that employ a reduced number of free parameters, especially in the case of stellarator…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 P. Curvo , D. R. Ferreira , R. Jorge

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-14 Takanori Ishii , Kaoru Hisama , Kohei Shinohara

This paper concerns structure learning or discovery of discrete generative models. It focuses on Bayesian model selection and the assimilation of training data or content, with a special emphasis on the order in which data are ingested. A…

Computational methods that automatically extract knowledge from data are critical for enabling data-driven materials science. A reliable identification of lattice symmetry is a crucial first step for materials characterization and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-19 A. Ziletti , D. Kumar , M. Scheffler , L. M. Ghiringhelli

We propose the use of two-dimensional photonic crystals with engineered defects for the generation of an arbitrary-profile beam from a focused input beam. The cylindrical harmonics expansion of complex-source beams is derived and used to…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-27 Denis Gagnon , Joey Dumont , Louis J. Dubé

Thin films are ubiquitous in modern technology and highly useful in materials discovery and design. For achieving optimal extrinsic properties their microstructure needs to be controlled in a multi-parameter space, which usually requires a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Lars Banko , Yury Lysogorskiy , Dario Grochla , Dennis Naujoks , Ralf Drautz , Alfred Ludwig

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have wide applications in superconductors, quantum, and topological materials. However, their rational design is not well established, and currently less than 6,000 experimentally synthesized 2D materials have…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Rongzhi Dong , Yuqi Song , Edirisuriya M. D. Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

The discovery of novel solid-state materials, such as electrocatalysts, super-ionic conductors, or photovoltaic materials, plays a critical role in addressing various global challenges. It has, for instance, the potential to significantly…

Finding new superconductors with a high critical temperature ($T_c$) has been a challenging task due to computational and experimental costs. We present a diffusion model inspired by the computer vision community to generate new…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-28 Daniel Wines , Tian Xie , Kamal Choudhary

High-throughput screening has become one of the major strategies for the discovery of novel functional materials. However, its effectiveness is severely limited by the lack of quantity and diversity of known materials deposited in the…

De novo crystal generation, a central task in materials discovery, aims to generate crystals that are simultaneously valid, stable, unique, and novel. Existing methods mainly rely on black-box stochastic sampling, providing limited control…

The inverse design of microstructures plays a pivotal role in optimizing metamaterials with specific, targeted physical properties. While traditional forward design methods are constrained by their inability to explore the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Tianyang Xue , Haochen Li , Longdu Liu , Paul Henderson , Pengbin Tang , Lin Lu , Jikai Liu , Haisen Zhao , Hao Peng , Bernd Bickel