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The discovery of new materials has been the essential force which brings a discontinuous improvement to industrial products' performance. However, the extra-vast combinatorial design space of material structures exceeds human experts'…

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Benchmarking optimization algorithms is fundamental for the advancement of computational intelligence. However, widely adopted artificial test suites exhibit limited correspondence with the diversity and complexity of real-world engineering…

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Optimal elemental configuration search in crystal is a crucial task to discovering industrially important materials such as lithium-ion battery cathodes. In this paper we present application of quantum approximate optimization algorithm,…

Inverse design of inorganic crystals, in which structures are generated to satisfy a target property while preserving diversity and physical plausibility, remains more demanding than ab initio generation, as property conditioning can…

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A class of algorithms for the solution of discrete material optimization problems in electromagnetic applications is discussed. The idea behind the algorithm is similar to that of the sequential programming. However, in each major iteration…

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Data-driven materials design often encounters challenges where systems require or possess qualitative (categorical) information. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an example of such material systems. The representation of MOFs through…

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Additive manufacturing has become one of the forefront technologies in fabrication, enabling new products impossible to manufacture before. Although many materials exist for additive manufacturing, they typically suffer from performance…

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Despite the success statistical physics has enjoyed at predicting the properties of materials for given parameters, the inverse problem, identifying which material parameters produce given, desired properties, is only beginning to be…

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A focus of recent research in quantum computing has been on developing quantum algorithms for differential equations solving using variational methods on near-term quantum devices. A promising approach involves variational algorithms, which…

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This research demonstrates that Ising machines can effectively solve optimal elemental configuration searches in crystals, with Au-Cu alloys serving as an example. The energy function is derived using the cluster expansion method in the…

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In this position paper, we propose an approach for sustainable data collection in the field of optimal mix design for marble sludge reuse. Marble sludge, a calcium-rich residual from stone-cutting processes, can be repurposed by mixing it…

A memetic framework for optimal inverse design is proposed by combining a local gradient-based procedure and a robust global scheme. The procedure is based on method-of-moments matrices and does not demand full inversion of a system matrix.…

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One emerging approach for the fabrication of complex architectures on the nanoscale is to utilize particles customized to intrinsically self-assemble into a desired structure. Inverse methods of statistical mechanics have proven…

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Nonlinear optical (NLO) materials are essential for many photonic, telecommunication, and laser technologies, yet discovering better NLO molecules is computationally challenging due to the vast chemical space and competing objectives. We…

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This article reviews recent inverse statistical-mechanical methodologies that we have devised to optimize interaction potentials in soft matter systems that correspond to stable "target" structures. We are interested in finding the…

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