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Combinatorial materials libraries provide a powerful platform for mapping how physical properties evolve across binary and ternary cross-sections of multicomponent phase diagrams. While synthesis of such libraries has advanced since the…

Machine-learned interatomic potentials are revolutionising atomistic materials simulations by providing accurate and scalable predictions within the scope covered by the training data. However, generation of an accurate and robust training…

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Biomolecular thermodynamics and spectroscopy depend on relative conformer energies, local curvatures, and collective dipole fluctuations on the potential-energy surface. Conventional molecular mechanics force fields enable large-scale…

Predicting solid-solid phase transitions remains a long-standing challenge in materials science. Solid-solid transformations underpin a wide range of functional properties critical to energy conversion, information storage, and thermal…

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The relative thermodynamic stability of surface reconstructions including vacancies, adatoms and additional layers on both CaO and MnO$_{2}$ terminations is calculated to predict the surface phase diagram of…

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Automated analyses of the outcome of a simulation have been an important part of atomistic modeling since the early days, addressing the need of linking the behavior of individual atoms and the collective properties that are usually the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Michele Ceriotti

The slow microstructural evolution of materials often plays a key role in determining material properties. When the unit steps of the evolution process are slow, direct simulation approaches such as molecular dynamics become prohibitive and…

Proximity to phase transitions (PTs) is frequently responsible for the largest dielectric susceptibilities in ferroelectrics. The impracticality of using temperature as a control parameter to reach those large responses has motivated the…

Machine Learning (ML) plays an increasingly important role in the discovery and design of new materials. In this paper, we demonstrate the potential of ML for materials research using hard-magnetic phases as an illustrative case. We build…

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Grain boundaries (GBs) are planar lattice defects that govern the properties of many types of polycrystalline materials. Hence, their structures have been investigated in great detail. However, much less is known about their chemical…

Understanding and predicting microstructure evolution is fundamental to materials science, as it governs the resulting properties and performance of materials. Traditional simulation methods, such as phase-field models, offer high-fidelity…

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We apply various unsupervised machine learning methods for phase classification to investigate the finite-temperature phase diagram of the spinless Falicov-Kimball model in two dimensions. Using only particle occupation snapshots from Monte…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-27 Lukáš Frk , Pavel Baláž , Elguja Archemashvili , Martin Žonda

The combination of data science and materials informatics has significantly propelled the advancement of multi-component compound synthesis research. This study employs atomic-level data to predict miscibility in binary compounds using…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-05 Chiwen Feng , Yanwei Liang , Jiaying Sun , Renhai Wang , Huaijun Sun , Huafeng Dong

Quantitative description of finite-temperature properties of displacive ferroelectrics, and in particular the critical behavior, is of fundamental importance to both theory and device design, going beyond the Landau-Ginzburg approach, which…

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Solidification governs the microstructure and, therefore, the mechanical response of metal components, yet the atomistic details of nucleation and defect formation are often difficult to determine experimentally. Molecular dynamics can…

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Atomic-scale modeling has advanced rapidly through integration of machine learning, yet a key bottleneck remains. Even with an accurate potential energy surface and a clear target material, we still lack a practical atomistic dynamics…

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Computational studies of chemical reactions in complex environments such as proteins, nanostructures, or on surfaces require accurate and efficient atomistic models applicable to the nanometer scale. In general, an accurate parametrization…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Christoph Brunken , Markus Reiher

Ferroelectric materials are a class of dielectrics that exhibit spontaneous polarization which can be reversed under an external electric field. The emergence of ferroelectric order in incipient ferroelectrics is a topic of considerable…

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Quantum materials near electronic or magnetic phase boundaries exhibit enhanced tunability, as their emergent properties become highly sensitive to external perturbations. Here, we demonstrate precise control of ferromagnetism in a…

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