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One of the challenges of self-assembling finite-sized colloidal aggregates with a sought morphology is the necessity of precisely sorting the position of the colloids at the microscopic scale to avoid the formation of off-target structures.…

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We construct a physically-parameterized probabilistic autoencoder (PAE) to learn the intrinsic diversity of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from a sparse set of spectral time series. The PAE is a two-stage generative model, composed of an…

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Developing reliable interatomic potential models with quantified predictive accuracy is crucial for atomistic simulations. Commonly used potentials, such as those constructed through the embedded atom method (EAM), are derived from…

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We proposed a simple and efficient modular single-source surface integral equation (SS-SIE) formulation for electromagnetic analysis of arbitrarily connected penetrable and perfectly electrical conductor (PEC) objects in two-dimensional…

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Bootstrap embedding (BE) is a recently developed electronic structure method that has shown great success at treating electron correlation in molecules. Here, we extend BE to treat surfaces and solids where the wave function is represented…

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