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We present a method for reliably determining the lowest energy structure of an atomic cluster in an arbitrary model potential. The method is based on a genetic algorithm, which operates on a population of candidate structures to produce new…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-10-28 D. M. Deaven , K. M. Ho

Density functional theory is routinely applied to predict crystal structures. The most common exchange-correlation functionals used to this end are the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) approximation and its variant PBEsol. We investigate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-18 Robert Hussein , Jonathan Schmidt , Tomás Barros , Miguel A. L. Marques , Silvana Botti

The performance of machine learning interatomic potentials relies on the quality of the training dataset. In this work, we present an approach for generating diverse and representative training data points which initiates with \it{ab…

Generating irreducible site-occupancy configurations by taking advantage of crystal symmetry is a ubiquitous method for accelerating of disordered structure prediction, which plays an important role in condensed matter physics and material…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Ji-Chun Lian , Hong-Yu Wu , Wei-Qing Huang , Wangyu Hu , Gui-Fang Huang

Glasses offer a broad range of tunable thermophysical properties that are linked to their compositions. However, it is challenging to establish a universal composition-property relation of glasses due to their enormous composition and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-23 Kumar Ayush , Pooja Sahu , Sk Musharaf Ali , Tarak K Patra

Crystal structure prediction is now playing an increasingly important role in discovery of new materials. Global optimization methods such as genetic algorithms (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) have been combined with first…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-09 Jianjun Hu , Wenhui Yang , Rongzhi Dong , Yuxin Li , Xiang Li , Shaobo Li

Crystal structures can be predicted from first-principles using ab initio random structure searching AIRSS and density functional theory (DFT). AIRSS provides a method to sample the potential energy landscape and DFT provides a robust and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Lewis J. Conway , Chris J. Pickard

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

Molecular crystal structure prediction represents a grand challenge in computational chemistry due to large sizes of constituent molecules and complex intra- and intermolecular interactions. While generative modeling has revolutionized…

Inspired by the recent success of machine-learned interatomic potentials for crystal structure prediction of the inorganic crystals, we present a methodology that exploits Moment Tensor Potentials and active learning (based on maxvol…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-07 Nikita Rybin , Ivan S. Novikov , Alexander Shapeev

Generative AI models, such as score-based diffusion models, have recently advanced the field of computational materials science by enabling the generation of new materials with desired properties. In addition, these models could also be…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Timo Reents , Arianna Cantarella , Marnik Bercx , Pietro Bonfà , Giovanni Pizzi

Two-dimensional lead halide perovskites are promising materials for optoelectronics due to the tunability of their properties with the number of lead halide layers and the choice of an organic spacer. Physical understanding for the rational…

Elpasolite is the predominant quaternary crystal structure (AlNaK$_2$F$_6$ prototype) reported in the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database. We have developed a machine learning model to calculate density functional theory quality formation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Felix Faber , Alexander Lindmaa , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld , Rickard Armiento

Global optimization of crystal compositions is a significant yet computationally intensive method to identify stable structures within chemical space. The specific physical properties linked to a three-dimensional atomic arrangement make…

The prediction of glass forming ability (GFA) and various properties in bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) pose a challenge due to the unique disordered atomic structure in this type of materials. Machine learning shows the potential ability to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-22 Xuhe Gong , Jiazi Bi , Xiaobin Liu , Ran Li , Ruijuan Xiao , Tao Zhang , Hong Li

First-principles based crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods have revealed an essential tool for the discovery of new materials. However, in solids close to displacive phase transitions, which are common in ferroelectrics,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Hao Gao , Yue-Wen Fang , Ion Errea

Crystal structure prediction algorithms have become powerful tools for materials discovery in recent years, however, they are usually limited to relatively small systems. The main challenge is that the number of local minima grows…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-09 Hao Gao , Junjie Wang , Yu Han , Jian Sun

Geometric information such as the space groups and crystal systems plays an important role in the properties of crystal materials. Prediction of crystal system and space group thus has wide applications in crystal material property…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Yuxin Li , Rongzhi Dong , Wenhui Yang , Jianjun Hu

We propose an efficient computational methodology for predicting the synthesizability of high entropy oxides (HEOs) in a large space of possible candidate compounds. HEOs are a growing field with an enormous potential chemical composition…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Oliver A. Dicks , Solveig S. Aamlid , Alannah M. Hallas , Joerg Rottler

We address the inverse problem of designing isotropic pairwise particle interaction potentials that lead to the formation of a desired lattice when a system of particles is cooled. The design problem is motivated by the desire to produce…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-05-13 Philip du Toit , Katalin Grubits , Jerrold Marsden , Sorin Costiner