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The large-scale search for high-performing candidate 2D materials is limited to calculating a few simple descriptors, usually with first-principles density functional theory calculations. In this work, we alleviate this issue by extending…

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The prediction of material structure from chemical composition has been a long-standing challenge in natural science. Although there have been various methodological developments and successes with computer simulations, the prediction of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-23 Naoto Tsujimoto , Daiki Adachi , Ryosuke Akashi , Synge Todo , Shinji Tsuneyuki

First-principles based crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods have revealed an essential tool for the discovery of new materials. However, in solids close to displacive phase transitions, which are common in ferroelectrics,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Hao Gao , Yue-Wen Fang , Ion Errea

We present materials informatics approach to search for superconducting hydrogen compounds, which is based on a genetic algorithm and a genetic programming. This method consists of four stages: (i) search for stable crystal structures of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-13 Takahiro Ishikawa , Takashi Miyake , Katsuya Shimizu

Twisted multilayer graphene, characterized by its moir\'e patterns arising from inter-layer rotational misalignment, serves as a rich platform for exploring quantum phenomena. Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are a promising…

The rapid adoption of machine learning (ML) in domain sciences necessitates best practices and standardized benchmarking for performance evaluation. We present Matbench Discovery, an evaluation framework for ML energy models, applied as…

Motivated by advances in hydrogen-rich superconductors in the past decades, we conducted variable-composition structural searches in Mo-H binary system at high pressure. A new composition-pressure phase diagram of thermodynamically stable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-31 Aiqin Yang , Xiangru Tao , Yundi Quan , Peng Zhang

Polymers are a versatile class of materials with widespread industrial applications. Advanced computational tools could revolutionize their design, but their complex, multi-scale nature poses significant modeling challenges. Conventional…

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are increasingly used to replace computationally demanding electronic-structure calculations to model matter at the atomic scale. The most commonly used model architectures are constrained to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Filippo Bigi , Paolo Pegolo , Arslan Mazitov , Jonathan Schmidt , Michele Ceriotti

Titanium MXenes are two-dimensional inorganic structures composed of titanium and carbon or nitrogen elements, with distinctive electronic, thermal and mechanical properties. Despite the extensive experimental investigation, there is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-30 Luis F. V. Thomazini , Alexandre F. Fonseca

Interatomic potential models based on machine learning (ML) are rapidly developing as tools for materials simulations. However, because of their flexibility, they require large fitting databases that are normally created with substantial…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-19 Noam Bernstein , Gábor Csányi , Volker L. Deringer

The computational prediction of the structure and stability of hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces provides important insights into the measurable properties of electronic thin film devices, coatings, and catalyst surfaces and plays an…

When creating training data for machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs), it is common to create initial structures and evolve them using molecular dynamics to sample a larger configuration space. We benchmark two other modalities of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Michael J. Waters , James M. Rondinelli

We search for new superhard B-N-O compounds with an iterative machine learning (ML) procedure, where ML models are trained using sample crystal structures from evolutionary algorithm. We first use cohesive energy to evaluate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-22 Wei-Chih Chen , Yogesh K. Vohra , Cheng-Chien Chen

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

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) promise to provide near density-functional theory accuracy at a fraction of the computational cost, offering a transformative route toward genuinely predictive chemistry. Yet their predictive…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Jeff Armstrong , Adam Jackson , Alin Elena

Foundational machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are being developed at a rapid pace, promising closer and closer approximation to ab initio accuracy. This unlocks the possibility to simulate much larger length and time scales.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-27 Luuk H. E. Kempen , Raffaele Cheula , Mie Andersen

Fast prediction of the synthesizability conditions of materials remains challenging, even assuming synthesis under thermodynamic equilibrium. Approaches solely based on convex stability hulls neglect finite-temperature effects, while…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-27 Finja Tadge , Javier Sanz Rodrigo , Andrea Crovetto

We present an open Molecular Crystal (MC) database of Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials (MLIP) called MolCryst-MLIPs. The first release comprises fine-tuned MACE models for nine molecular crystal systems -- Benzamide, Benzoic acid,…

The discovery of new materials using crystal structure prediction (CSP) based on generative machine learning models has become a significant research topic in recent years. In this paper, we study invariance and continuity in the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yuji Tone , Masatoshi Hanai , Mitsuaki Kawamura , Kenjiro Taura , Toyotaro Suzumura