English
Related papers

Related papers: Computing the bridge length: the key ingredient in…

200 papers

Ideal symmetry is known to break down under almost any noise. One measure of asymmetry in a periodic crystal is the relative multiplicity Z' of geometrically non-equivalent units. However, Z' discontinuously changes under almost any…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Surya Majumder , Daniel Widdowson , Yury Elkin , Olga Anosova , Andrew I Cooper , Graeme M Day , Vitaliy Kurlin

To accelerate the development of novel ion-conducting materials, we present a general graph-theoretic analysis framework for ion migration in any crystalline structure. The nodes of the graph represent metastable sites of the migrating ion…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-07 Jimmy-Xuan Shen , Haoming Howard Li , Ann Rutt , Matthew K. Horton , Kristin A. Persson

The bicategory of parameterized spectra has a remarkably rich structure. In particular, it is possible to take traces in this bicategory, which give classical invariants that count fixed points. We can also take equivariant traces, which…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Cary Malkiewich , Kate Ponto

Persistent homology is a popular and useful tool for analysing finite metric spaces, revealing features that can be used to distinguish sets of unlabeled points and as input into machine learning pipelines. The famous stability theorem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Philip Smith , Vitaliy Kurlin

Predicting properties of crystals from their structures is a fundamental yet challenging task in materials science. Unlike molecules, crystal structures exhibit infinite periodic arrangements of atoms, requiring methods capable of capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jianan Nie , Peiyao Xiao , Kaiyi Ji , Peng Gao

Crystal structures are characterized by atomic bases within a primitive unit cell that repeats along a regular lattice throughout 3D space. The periodic and infinite nature of crystals poses unique challenges for geometric graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Keqiang Yan , Cong Fu , Xiaofeng Qian , Xiaoning Qian , Shuiwang Ji

This paper investigates the use of the most fundamental elements; cables for tension and bars for compression, in the search for the most efficient bridges. Stable arrangements of these elements are called tensegrity structures. We show…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-18 Gerardo Carpentieri , Robert E. Skelton , Fernando Fraternali

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-18 A. R. Oganov , C. W. Glass

The Wheatstone bridge experiment is fundamental for precise measurement of electrical resistance, holding significant value in both undergraduate physics education and real-life scientific research. This study reimagines the experiment by…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-05-12 Yong Zhou , Ze-yan Peng , Yan Xiao , Wen-mei Guo , Guan-xin Yao

Crystal structure prediction has been a subject of topical interest, but remains a substantial challenge, especially for complex structures as it deals with the global minimization of the extremely rugged high-dimensional potential energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-26 Xuecheng Shao , Jian Lv , Peng Liu , Sen Shao , Pengyue Gao , Hanyu Liu , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

We propose simple methods for multivariate diffusion bridge simulation, which plays a fundamental role in simulation-based likelihood and Bayesian inference for stochastic differential equations. By a novel application of classical coupling…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Mogens Bladt , Samuel Finch , Michael Sørensen

We define and compare several natural ways to compute the bridge number of a knot diagram. We study bridge numbers of crossing number minimizing diagrams, as well as the behavior of diagrammatic bridge numbers under the connected sum…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Ryan Blair , Alexandra A. Kjuchukova , Makoto Ozawa

A key phase in the bridge design process is the selection of the structural system. Due to budget and time constraints, engineers typically rely on engineering judgment and prior experience when selecting a structural system, often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-14 Achyuthan Jootoo , David Lattanzi

We consider the problem of constructing an adaptive bridge regression modeling, which is a penalized procedure by imposing different weights to different coefficients in the bridge penalty term. A crucial issue in the modeling process is…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-02-15 Shuichi Kawano

Crystal structure optimization is fundamental to materials modeling but remains computationally expensive when performed with density-functional theory (DFT). Machine-learning (ML) approaches offer substantial acceleration, yet existing…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Ziduo Yang , Wei Zhuo , Huiqiang Xie , Xiaoqing Liu , Lei Shen

The finite element computation of structures such as waveguides can lead to heavy computations when the length of the structure is large compared to the wavelength. Such waveguides can in fact be seen as one-dimensional periodic structures.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Denis Duhamel

Milestoning is a computational procedure that reduces the dynamics of complex systems to memoryless jumps between intermediates, or milestones, and only retains some information about the probability of these jumps and the time lags between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Ling Lin , Jianfeng Lu , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

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

Crystal-structure match (CSM), the atom-to-atom correspondence between two crystalline phases, is used extensively to describe solid-solid phase transition (SSPT) mechanisms. However, existing computational methods cannot account for all…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-06 Fang-Cheng Wang , Qi-Jun Ye , Yu-Cheng Zhu , Xin-Zheng Li

As a common appearance defect of concrete bridges, cracks are important indices for bridge structure health assessment. Although there has been much research on crack identification, research on the evolution mechanism of bridge cracks is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Di Wang , Simon X. Yang