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Crystal structure prediction (CSP), which aims to predict the three-dimensional atomic arrangement of a crystal from its composition, is central to materials discovery and mechanistic understanding. However, given the composition in a unit…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-10 Shi Yin , Jinming Mu , Xudong Zhu , Linxin He

Machine learning interatomic potentials have revolutionized complex materials design by enabling rapid exploration of material configurational spaces via crystal structure prediction with ab initio accuracy. However, critical challenges…

Organic molecular crystals underpin technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals to organic electronics, yet predicting solid-state packing of molecules remains challenging because candidate generation is combinatorial and stability is only…

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

We study Crystal Structure Prediction, one of the major problems in computational chemistry. This is essentially a continuous optimization problem, where many different, simple and sophisticated, methods have been proposed and applied. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Dmytro Antypov , Argyrios Deligkas , Vladimir Gusev , Matthew J. Rosseinsky , Paul G. Spirakis , Michail Theofilatos

We present a genetic algorithm (GA) for structural search that combines the speed of structure exploration by classical potentials with the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) calculations in an adaptive and iterative way. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-06 S. Q. Wu , M. Ji , C. Z. Wang , M. C. Nguyen , X. Zhao , K. Umemoto , R. M. Wentzcovitch , K. M. Ho

In computational chemistry, crystal structure prediction (CSP) is an optimization problem that involves discovering the lowest energy stable crystal structure for a given chemical formula. This problem is challenging as it requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Han Qi , Xinyang Geng , Stefano Rando , Iku Ohama , Aviral Kumar , Sergey Levine

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) aims to discover solid crystalline materials by optimizing periodic arrangements of atoms, ions or molecules. CSP takes weeks of supercomputer time because of slow energy minimizations for millions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 Jakob Ropers , Marco M Mosca , Olga Anosova , Vitaliy Kurlin , Andrew I Cooper

Even though thermodynamic energy-based crystal structure prediction (CSP) has revolutionized materials discovery, the energy-driven CSP approaches often struggle to identify experimentally realizable metastable materials synthesized through…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-15 Yu Xin , Peng Liu , Zhuohang Xie , Wenhui Mi , Pengyue Gao , Hong Jian Zhao , Jian Lv , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

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

Structural prediction for the discovery of novel materials is a long sought after goal of computational physics and materials sciences. The success is rather limited for methods such as the simulated annealing method (SA) that require…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-08 Chuannan Li , Hanpu Liang , Yifeng Duan , Zijing Lin

Crystal structure prediction has traditionally relied on prototype-based seeding, approaches that often bias sampling toward known low-energy basins and overlook metastable polymorphs with unconventional symmetries. Here, we introduce…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-24 Jiexi Song , Diwei Shi , Aixian She , Chongde Cao , Fengyuan Xuan

The discovery of new materials using crystal structure prediction (CSP) based on generative machine learning models has become a significant research topic in recent years. In this paper, we study invariance and continuity in the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yuji Tone , Masatoshi Hanai , Mitsuaki Kawamura , Kenjiro Taura , Toyotaro Suzumura

Crystal structure prediction is a long-standing challenge in materials science, with most data-driven methods developed for inorganic systems. This leaves an important gap for organic crystals, which are central to pharmaceuticals,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar , Matthew A. McDonald , Feng Liu

Prediction of the stable crystal structure for multinary (ternary or higher) compounds with unexplored compositions demands fast and accurate evaluation of free energies in exploring the vast configurational space. The machine-learning…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Changho Hong , Jeong Min Choi , Wonseok Jeong , Sungwoo Kang , Suyeon Ju , Kyeongpung Lee , Jisu Jung , Yong Youn , Seungwu Han

We developed a density functional theory-free approach for crystal structure prediction via combing graph network (GN) and Bayesian optimization (BO). GN is adopted to establish the correlation model between crystal structure and formation…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-24 Guanjian Cheng , Xin-Gao Gong , Wan-Jian Yin

We develop and test new machine learning strategies for accelerating molecular crystal structure ranking and crystal property prediction using tools from geometric deep learning on molecular graphs. Leveraging developments in graph-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-29 Michael Kilgour , Jutta Rogal , Mark Tuckerman

High-pressure crystal structure prediction (CSP) underpins advances in condensed matter physics, planetary science, and materials discovery. Yet, most large atomistic models are trained on near-ambient, equilibrium data, leading to degraded…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-15 Yinan Wang , Xiaoyang Wang , Zhenyu Wang , Jing Wu , Jian Lv , Han Wang

Structure is the most basic and important property of crystalline solids; it determines directly or indirectly most materials characteristics. However, predicting crystal structure of solids remains a formidable and not fully solved…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 Haotong Liang , Valentin Stanev , A. Gilad Kusne , Ichiro Takeuchi

We have developed an efficient and reliable methodology for crystal structure prediction, merging ab initio total-energy calculations and a specifically devised evolutionary algorithm. This method allows one to predict the most stable…

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