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Structural response of crystals to an applied external perturbation is important as a key for understanding microscopic origin of physical properties. Experimental investigation of structural response is a great challenge for modern…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-24 Semen Gorfman , Oleg Schmidt , Vladimir Tsirelson , Michael Ziolkowski , Ullrich Pietsch

Novel ordered intermetallic compounds have stimulated much interest. Ru-Al alloys are a prominent class of high-temperature structural materials, but the experimentally reported crystal structure of the intermetallic Ru2Al5 phase remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-02 Jing Luo , Meiguang Zhang , Xiaofei Jia , Xuanmin Zhu , Qun Wei

Crystal structure prediction for a given chemical composition has long been a challenge in condensed-matter science. We have recently shown that experimental powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) data are helpful in a crystal structure search…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-30 Seiji Yoshikawa , Ryuhei Sato , Ryosuke Akashi , Synge Todo , Shinji Tsuneyuki

Prediction of stable crystal structures at given pressure-temperature conditions, based only on the knowledge of the chemical composition, is a central problem of condensed matter physics. This extremely challenging problem is often termed…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 A. R. Oganov , Y. Ma , A. O. Lyakhov , M. Valle , C. Gatti

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

As in many other fields, the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence is reshaping materials discovery by offering new ways to propose crystal structures and, in some cases, even predict desired properties. This review provides a…

The revolution in materials in the past century was built on a knowledge of the atomic arrangements and the structure-property relationship. The sine qua non for obtaining quantitative structural information is single crystal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Gabe Guo , Judah Goldfeder , Ling Lan , Aniv Ray , Albert Hanming Yang , Boyuan Chen , Simon JL Billinge , Hod Lipson

Determination of crystal structures of nanocrystalline or amorphous compounds is a great challenge in solid states chemistry and physics. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of X-Ray or neutron total scattering data has proven to be a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-14 Magnus Kløve , Sanna Sommer , Bo B. Iversen , Bjørk Hammer , Wilke Dononelli

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

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

Local Fourier analysis is a commonly used tool to assess the quality and aid in the construction of geometric multigrid methods for translationally invariant operators. In this paper we automate the process of local Fourier analysis and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Karsten Kahl , Nils Kintscher

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) stands as a powerful tool in materials science, driving the discovery and design of innovative materials. However, existing CSP methods heavily rely on formation enthalpies derived from density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-16 Chenglong Qin , Jinde Liu , Shiyin Ma , Jiguang Du , Gang Jiang , Liang Zhao

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

Autonomous materials discovery with desired properties is one of the ultimate goals for materials science, and the current studies have been focusing mostly on high-throughput screening based on density functional theory calculations and…

We develop a method combining machine learning (ML) and density functional theory (DFT) to predict low-energy polymorphs by introducing physics-guided descriptors based on structural distortion modes. We systematically generate crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-07 Bastien F. Grosso , Nicola A. Spaldin , Aria Mansouri Tehrani

Analysis of the extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) can yield local structural information in magic size clusters even when other structural methods (such as X-ray diffraction) fail, but typically requires an initial guess --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Lucy Haddad , Diego Gianolio , David J. Dunstan , Andrei Sapelkin

For a very long time, computational approaches to the design of new materials have relied on an iterative process of finding a candidate material and modeling its properties. AI has played a crucial role in this regard, helping to…

Theoretical aspects of x-ray standing wave method for investigation of the real structure of crystals are considered in this review paper. Starting from the general approach of the secondary radiation yield from deformed crystals this…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 I. A. Vartanyants , M. V. Kovalchuk

Crystal structure modeling with graph neural networks is essential for various applications in materials informatics, and capturing SE(3)-invariant geometric features is a fundamental requirement for these networks. A straightforward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yusei Ito , Tatsunori Taniai , Ryo Igarashi , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Kanta Ono

Machine learning (ML) models utilizing structure-based features provide an efficient means for accurate property predictions across diverse chemical spaces. However, obtaining equilibrium crystal structures typically requires expensive…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-22 Yunxing Zuo , Mingde Qin , Chi Chen , Weike Ye , Xiangguo Li , Jian Luo , Shyue Ping Ong