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Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations are being routinely used to identify new material candidates that approach activity near fundamental limits imposed by thermodynamics or scaling relations. DFT calculations have finite…

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The development of machine learning interatomic potentials faces a critical computational bottleneck with the generation and labeling of useful training datasets. We present a novel application of determinantal point processes (DPPs) to the…

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Computational prediction of stable crystal structures has a profound impact on the large-scale discovery of novel functional materials. However, predicting the crystal structure solely from a material's composition or formula is a promising…

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A neuroevolution potential (NEP) for the ternary $\alpha$-Fe--C--H system was developed based on a database generated from spin-polarized density functional theory (DFT) calculations, achieving empirical potential efficiency with DFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Fan-Shun Meng , Shuhei Shinzato , Zhiqiang Zhao , Jun-Ping Du , Lei Gao , Zheyong Fan , Shigenobu Ogata

Crystal structure prediction is a fundamental problem in materials science. We present CrystalFormer-CSP, an efficient framework that unifies data-driven heuristic and physics-driven optimization approaches to predict stable crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhendong Cao , Shigang Ou , Lei Wang

Improving the predictive capability of molecular properties in ab initio simulations is essential for advanced material discovery. Despite recent progress making use of machine learning, utilizing deep neural networks to improve quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Muhammad F. Kasim , Sam M. Vinko

We employ a descriptor based machine-learning approach to assess the effect of chemical alloying on formation-enthalpy of rare-earth intermetallics. Application of machine-learning approaches in rare-earth intermetallic design have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-07 Prashant Singh , Tyler Del Rose , Guillermo Vazquez , Raymundo Arroyave , Yaroslav Mudryk

Uranium dioxide (UO2) is a prototypical nuclear fuel material, yet predicting its thermophysical properties across a wide temperature range remains challenging. One factor contributing to this difficulty is the complex magnetic ordering at…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-10 Keita Kobayashi , Hiroki Nakamura , Mitsuhiro Itakura

In silico design and optimization of new materials primarily relies on high-accuracy atomic simulators that perform density functional theory (DFT) calculations. While recent works showcase the strong potential of machine learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Prashant Govindarajan , Mathieu Reymond , Antoine Clavaud , Mariano Phielipp , Santiago Miret , Sarath Chandar

The constant demand for new functional materials calls for efficient strategies to accelerate the materials design and discovery. In addressing this challenge, machine learning generative models can offer promising opportunities since they…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-24 Sungwon Kim , Juhwan Noh , Geun Ho Gu , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Yousung Jung

Liquid metals are central to energy-storage and nuclear technologies, yet quantitative knowledge of their thermophysical properties remains limited. While atomistic simulations offer a route to computing liquid properties directly from…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Alex Tai , Jason Ogbebor , Rodrigo Freitas

Machine Learning (ML) models have, in contrast to their usefulness in molecular dynamics studies, had limited success as surrogate potentials for reaction barrier search. It is due to the scarcity of training data in relevant transition…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Mathias Schreiner , Arghya Bhowmik , Tejs Vegge , Jonas Busk , Ole Winther

It is possible in principle to probe the many--atom potential surface using density functional theory (DFT). This will allow us to apply DFT to the Hamiltonian formulation of atomic motion in monatomic liquids [\textit{Phys. Rev. E} {\bf…

Rapid development of universal machine learning potentials (uMLPs) and expansion of training data sets are reshaping the state of the art in atomistic simulation, highlighting the need for concurrent systematic benchmarking of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-02 Edan T. Marcial , Laxman Chaudhary , Olesya Gorbunova , Aleksey N. Kolmogorov

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) of molecular crystals plays a central role in applications, such as pharmaceuticals and organic electronics. CSP is challenging and computationally expensive due to the need to explore a large search space…

Harnessing the recent advance in data science and materials science, it is feasible today to build predictive models for materials properties. In this study, we employ the data of high-throughput quantum mechanics calculations based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-22 Yingzong Liang , Mingwei Chen , Yanan Wang , Huaxian Jia , Tenglong Lu , Fankai Xie , Sheng Meng , Miao Liu

We consider a system of particles interacting via a purely repulsive, soft-core potential recently introduced to model effective pair interactions between dendrimers, which is expected to lead to the formation of crystals with multiple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-11 Davide Pini

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

Molecules can form myriad crystalline polymorphs, each with distinct properties affecting their performance across diverse applications, from pharmaceuticals to functional materials and more. Predicting the thermodynamically most stable…

Machine learning potentials have emerged as a powerful tool to extend the time and length scales of first principles-quality simulations. Still, most machine learning potentials cannot distinguish different electronic spin orientations and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Marco Eckhoff , Jörg Behler