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The electric dipole moment of an electron (eEDM) is one of the sensitive probes of physics beyond the standard model. The possible existence of the eEDM gives rise to an experimentally observed energy shift, which is proportional to the…
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Machine learning materials properties measured by experiments is valuable yet difficult due to the limited amount of experimental data. In this work, we use a multi-fidelity random forest model to learn the experimental formation enthalpy…
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