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The presence of point defects such as vacancies plays an important role in material design. Here, we demonstrate that a graph neural network (GNN) model trained only on perfect materials can also be used to predict vacancy formation…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-19 Kamal Choudhary , Bobby G. Sumpter

Electron charge density distribution of materials is one of the key quantities in computational materials science as theoretically it determines the ground state energy and practically it is used in many materials analyses. However, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Sheng Gong , Tian Xie , Taishan Zhu , Shuo Wang , Eric R. Fadel , Yawei Li , Jeffrey C. Grossman

The construction of the Hamiltonian matrix \textbf{H} is an essential, yet computationally expensive step in \textit{ab-initio} device simulations based on density-functional theory (DFT). In homogeneous structures, the fact that a unit…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-03 Chen Hao Xia , Manasa Kaniselvan , Marko Mladenoivić , Mathieu Luisier

The prediction of the atomistic structure and properties of crystals including defects based on ab-initio accurate simulations is essential for unraveling the nano-scale mechanisms that control the micromechanical and macroscopic behaviour…

The properties of electrons in matter are of fundamental importance. They give rise to virtually all molecular and material properties and determine the physics at play in objects ranging from semiconductor devices to the interior of giant…

The accurate and efficient prediction of crack propagation in dielectric materials is a critical challenge in structural health monitoring and the design of smart systems. This work presents a hybrid modeling framework that combines an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Aamir Dean , Jaykumar Mavani , Betim Bahtiri , Behrouz Arash , Raimund Rolfes

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations determine the relaxed atomic positions and lattice parameters that minimize the formation energy of a structure. We present an equivariant graph neural network (EGNN) model to predict the outcome…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Jamie Holber , Siddhartha Srivastava , Krishna Garikipati

The non-equilibrium Green's function method combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) provides a rigorous framework for simulating nanoscale electronic transport, but its computational cost scales steeply with system size. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Zili Tang , Xiaoxin Xie , Guanwen Yao , Ligong Zhang , Xiaoyan Liu , Xing Zhang , Liu Fei

Density-functional theory with extended Hubbard functionals (DFT+$U$+$V$) provides a robust framework to accurately describe complex materials containing transition-metal or rare-earth elements. It does so by mitigating self-interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-30 Martin Uhrin , Austin Zadoks , Luca Binci , Nicola Marzari , Iurii Timrov

We introduce DeepDFT, a deep learning model for predicting the electronic charge density around atoms, the fundamental variable in electronic structure simulations from which all ground state properties can be calculated. The model is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 Peter Bjørn Jørgensen , Arghya Bhowmik

Machine-learning electronic Hamiltonians achieve orders-of-magnitude speedups over density-functional theory, yet current models omit long-range Coulomb interactions that govern physics in polar crystals and heterostructures. We derive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Yang Zhong , Xiwen Li , Xingao Gong , Hongjun Xiang

The electronic charge density plays a central role in determining the behavior of matter at the atomic scale, but its computational evaluation requires demanding electronic-structure calculations. We introduce an atom-centered,…

Material characterization using electron micrographs is a crucial but challenging task with applications in various fields, such as semiconductors, quantum materials, batteries, etc. The challenges in categorizing electron micrographs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Sakhinana Sagar Srinivas , Rajat Kumar Sarkar , Sreeja Gangasani , Venkataramana Runkana

Ionic mobility determines the rate performance of several applications, such as batteries, fuel cells, and electrochemical sensors and is exponentially dependent on the migration barrier ($E_m$), a difficult to measure/calculate quantity.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-16 Reshma Devi , Keith T. Butler , Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam

High-throughput computational screening has emerged as a critical component of materials discovery. Direct density functional theory (DFT) simulation of inorganic materials and molecular transition metal complexes is often used to describe…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-18 Jon Paul Janet , Heather J. Kulik

Development of next-generation electronic devices for applications call for the discovery of quantum materials hosting novel electronic, magnetic, and topological properties. Traditional electronic structure methods require expensive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Hexin Bai , Peng Chu , Jeng-Yuan Tsai , Nathan Wilson , Xiaofeng Qian , Qimin Yan , Haibin Ling

Electrostatics govern charge transfer and reactivity in materials. Yet, most foundation potentials (FPs) either do not explicitly model such interactions or pay a prohibitive scaling penalty to do so. Here, we introduce charge-equilibrated…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-12 Tsz Wai Ko , Runze Liu , Adesh Rohan Mishra , Zihan Yu , Ji Qi , Shyue Ping Ong

Accurately calculating energies and atomic forces with linear-scaling methods is a crucial approach to accelerating and improving molecular dynamics simulations. In this paper, we introduce HamGNN-DM, a machine learning model designed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-06 Zaizhou Xin , Yang Zhong , Xingao Gong , Hongjun Xiang

Within first-principles density functional theory (DFT) frameworks, accurate but fast prediction of electronic structures of nanoparticles (NPs) remains challenging. Herein, we propose a machine-learning architecture to rapidly but…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-22 Kihoon Bang , Byung Chul Yeo , Donghun Kim , Sang Soo Han , Hyuck Mo Lee

In context of the universal presence of defects in additively manufactured (AM) metals, efficient computational tools are required to rapidly screen AM microstructures for mechanical integrity. To this end, a deep learning approach is used…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-25 Brendan P. Croom , Michael Berkson , Robert K. Mueller , Michael Presley , Steven Storck