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Crystal structures can be viewed as assemblies of space-filling polyhedra, which play a critical role in determining material properties such as ionic conductivity and dielectric constant. However, most conventional crystal structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Tomoyasu Yokoyama , Kazuhide Ichikawa , Hisashi Naito

Solving black-box optimization problems with Ising machines is increasingly common in materials science. However, their application to crystal structure prediction (CSP) is still ineffective due to symmetry agnostic encoding of atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-10 Chen Liang , Diptesh Das , Jiang Guo , Ryo Tamura , Zetian Mao , Koji Tsuda

The use of machine learning methods for accelerating the design of crystalline materials usually requires manually constructed feature vectors or complex transformation of atom coordinates to input the crystal structure, which either…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-10 Tian Xie , Jeffrey C. Grossman

Crystal structures are indispensable across various domains, from batteries to solar cells, and extensive research has been dedicated to predicting their properties based on their atomic configurations. However, prevailing Crystal Structure…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Hannah Janmohamed , Marta Wolinska , Shikha Surana , Thomas Pierrot , Aron Walsh , Antoine Cully

Generative design marks a significant data-driven advancement in the exploration of novel inorganic materials, which entails learning the symmetry equivalent to the crystal structure prediction (CSP) task and subsequent learning of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-22 Ruiming Zhu , Wei Nong , Shuya Yamazaki , Kedar Hippalgaonkar

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) is crucial in various scientific disciplines. While CSP can be addressed by employing currently-prevailing generative models (e.g. diffusion models), this task encounters unique challenges owing to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-08 Rui Jiao , Wenbing Huang , Peijia Lin , Jiaqi Han , Pin Chen , Yutong Lu , Yang Liu

Efficient heuristics have predicted many functional materials such as high-temperature superconducting hydrides, while inorganic structural chemistry explains why and how the crystal structures are stabilized. Here we develop the paired…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-07 Ryotaro Koshoji , Taisuke Ozaki

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

Experimentally obtained X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns can be difficult to solve, precluding the full characterization of materials, pharmaceuticals, and geological compounds. Herein, we propose a method based upon a multi-objective…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-09 Stefano Racioppi , Alberto Otero De la Roza , Samad Hajinazar , Eva Zurek

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is crucial for identifying stable crystal structures in given systems and is a prerequisite for computational atomistic simulations. Recent advances in neural network potentials (NNPs) have reduced the…

The generation of plausible crystal structures is often the first step in predicting the structure and properties of a material from its chemical composition. Quickly generating and predicting inorganic crystal structures is important for…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-13 Luis M. Antunes , Keith T. Butler , Ricardo Grau-Crespo

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-09 Yuqi Song , Rongzhi Dong , Lai Wei , Qin Li , Jianjun Hu

The recently developed evolutionary algorithm USPEX proved to be a tool that enables accurate and reliable prediction of structures for a given chemical composition. Here we extend this method to predict the crystal structure of polymers by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-03 Qiang Zhu , Vinit Sharma , Artem R Oganov , Rampi Ramprasad

Metastable materials are abundant in nature and technology, showcasing remarkable properties that inspire innovative materials design. However, traditional crystal structure prediction methods, which rely solely on energetic factors to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-27 Busheng Wang , Katerina P. Hilleke , Samad Hajinazar , Gilles Frapper , Eva Zurek

Crystal symmetry plays a fundamental role in determining its physical, chemical, and electronic properties such as electrical and thermal conductivity, optical and polarization behavior, and mechanical strength. Almost all known crystalline…

The ability to reliably predict the structures and stabilities of a molecular crystal and its polymorphs without any prior experimental information would be an invaluable tool for a number of fields, with specific and immediate applications…

We have developed a powerful method for crystal structure prediction from "scratch" through particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm within the evolutionary scheme. PSO technique is dramatically different with the genetic algorithm and…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-11 Yanchao Wang , Jian Lv , Li Zhu , Yanming Ma

In materials discovery, the integration of first-principles calculations with machine learning techniques has been actively studied for two key tasks: crystal structure prediction, which searches for stable structures given a chemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Akira Kusaba , Tetsuji Kuboyama , Karol Kawka , Pawel Kempisty , Yoshihiro Kangawa

The large amount of powder diffraction data for which the corresponding crystal structures have not yet been identified suggests the existence of numerous undiscovered, physically relevant crystal structure prototypes. In this paper, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-31 Abhijith S. Parackal , Rhys E. A. Goodall , Felix A. Faber , Rickard Armiento

Machine learning has the potential to accelerate materials discovery by accurately predicting materials properties at a low computational cost. However, the model inputs remain a key stumbling block. Current methods typically use…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Rhys E. A. Goodall , Alpha A. Lee