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Interpretable machine learning is rapidly becoming a crucial tool for scientific discovery. Among existing approaches, variational autoencoders (VAEs) have shown promise in extracting the hidden physical features of some input data, with no…

Constructing accurate, high dimensional molecular potential energy surfaces (PESs) for polyatomic molecules is challenging. Reproducing Kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) interpolation is an efficient way to construct such PESs. However, the…

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To further develop accurate and large-scale simulations of electrochemical interfaces, we propose a unified explicit electric potential framework to simultaneously predict atomic forces and electron density distributions. The framework…

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The accurate prediction of electronic response properties of extended molecular systems has been a challenge for conventional, explicit density functionals. We demonstrate that a self-interaction correction implemented rigorously within…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Körzdörfer , M. Mundt , S. Kümmel

We construct a reduced, data-driven, parameter dependent effective Stochastic Differential Equation (eSDE) for electric-field mediated colloidal crystallization using data obtained from Brownian Dynamics Simulations. We use Diffusion Maps…

Exceptional points (EPs) are degenerate singularities in a non-Hermitian system that can be induced by controlling the interaction between resonant photonic modes. EPs can enable unusual optical phenomena and significantly enhance the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Hoon Yeub Jeong , Yeonsoo Lim , Jungho Han , Soo-Chan An , Young Chul Jun

We demonstrate the application of machine learning for rapid and accurate extraction of plasmonic particles cluster geometries from hyperspectral image data via a dual variational autoencoder (dual-VAE). In this approach, the information is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-09 Muammer Y. Yaman , Sergei V. Kalinin , Kathryn N. Guye , David Ginger , Maxim Ziatdinov

We present an efficient implementation of the second- and third-order single-reference algebraic diagrammatic construction theory for electron attachment (EA) and ionization (IP) energies and spectra (EA/IP-ADC(n), n = 2, 3). Our new…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 Samragni Banerjee , Alexander Yu. Sokolov

Density estimation, compression and data generation are crucial tasks in artificial intelligence. Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) constitute a single framework to achieve these goals. Here, we present a novel class of generative models,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-07 Ioannis Gatopoulos , Jakub M. Tomczak

We propose a new class of physics-informed neural networks, called physics-informed Variational Autoencoder (PI-VAE), to solve stochastic differential equations (SDEs) or inverse problems involving SDEs. In these problems the governing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-09 Weiheng Zhong , Hadi Meidani

In order to optimize a self-assembly reaction, it is essential to understand the factors that govern its pathway. Here, we examine the influence of nucleation pathways in a model system for addressable, multicomponent self-assembly based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-01 Martin Sajfutdinow , William M. Jacobs , Aleks Reinhardt , Christoph Schneider , David M. Smith

The Many-Body Expansion (MBE) is a useful tool to simulate condensed phase chemical systems, often avoiding the steep computational cost of usual electronic structure methods. However, it often requires higher than 2-body terms to achieve…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Srimukh Prasad Veccham , Joonho Lee , Martin Head-Gordon

AI-powered autonomous experimentation (AI/AE) can accelerate materials discovery but its effectiveness for electronic materials is hindered by data scarcity from lengthy and complex design-fabricate-test-analyze cycles. Unlike experienced…

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are used to decompose neural network activations into human-interpretable features. Typically, features learned by a single SAE are used for downstream applications. However, it has recently been shown that SAEs…

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Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) interpret neural network representations by decomposing activations into sparse combinations of dictionary atoms. However, SAEs assume features combine additively through linear reconstruction, an assumption that…

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Research in the field of nanoplasmonic metamaterials is moving towards more and more interesting and, potentially useful, applications. The present work tackles the problem of nanoparticle self-assembly at an electrochemical solid-liquid…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-10-12 Cristian Zagar , Ryan-Rys Griffith , Rudolf Podgornik , Alexei A. Kornyshev

Combinatorial optimization problems are central to science and engineering and specialized hardware from quantum annealers to classical Ising machines are being actively developed to address them. These systems typically sample from a fixed…

We study the inverse problem of tuning interaction parameters between charged colloidal particles interacting with a hard-core repulsive Yukawa potential, so that they assemble into specified crystal structures. Here, we target the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-02 Rajneesh Kumar , Gabriele M. Coli , Marjolein Dijkstra , Srikanth Sastry

Over the last decade, the field of programmable self-assembly has seen an explosion in the diversity of crystal lattices that can be synthesized from DNA-coated colloidal nanometer- and micrometer-scale particles. The prevailing wisdom has…

The inherent compositional heterogeneity of multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) gives rise to complex, spatially varying mechanical fields that cannot be uniquely determined from coarse-grained composition descriptors. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-03 Ningyu Yan , Zhuocheng Xie , Kai Guo , Yejun Gu , Huajian Gao , Yang Xiang