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As a fundamental concept of all crystals, space groups are partitioned into symmorphic groups and nonsymmorphic groups. Each nonsymmorphic group contains glide reflections or screw rotations with fractional lattice translations, which are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-27 Chen Zhang , Z. Y. Chen , Zheng Zhang , Y. X. Zhao

As is well known, crystals have discrete space translational symmetry. It was recently noticed that one-dimensional crystals possibly have discrete Poincar\'{e} symmetry, which contains discrete Lorentz and discrete time translational…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-30 Xiuwen Li , Jiaxue Chai , Huixian Zhu , Pei Wang

Periodic material or crystal property prediction using machine learning has grown popular in recent years as it provides a computationally efficient replacement for classical simulation methods. A crucial first step for any of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jonathan Balasingham , Viktor Zamaraev , Vitaliy Kurlin

Many generative tasks in chemistry and science involve distributions invariant to group symmetries (e.g., permutation and rotation). A common strategy enforces invariance and equivariance through architectural constraints such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Cai Zhou , Zijie Chen , Zian Li , Jike Wang , Kaiyi Jiang , Pan Li , Rose Yu , Muhan Zhang , Stephen Bates , Tommi Jaakkola

Inverse molecular design is critical in material science and drug discovery, where the generated molecules should satisfy certain desirable properties. In this paper, we propose equivariant energy-guided stochastic differential equations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Fan Bao , Min Zhao , Zhongkai Hao , Peiyao Li , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

Generative AI models, such as score-based diffusion models, have recently advanced the field of computational materials science by enabling the generation of new materials with desired properties. In addition, these models could also be…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Timo Reents , Arianna Cantarella , Marnik Bercx , Pietro Bonfà , Giovanni Pizzi

The task of deducing three-dimensional molecular configurations from their two-dimensional graph representations holds paramount importance in the fields of computational chemistry and pharmaceutical development. The rapid advancement of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-09 Bobin Yang , Jie Deng , Zhenghan Chen , Ruoxue Wu

The discovery of topological insulators has reformed modern materials science, promising to be a platform for tabletop relativistic physics, electronic transport without scattering, and stable quantum computation. Topological invariants are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Jorrit Kruthoff , Jan de Boer , Jasper van Wezel

In addressing the challenge of Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP), symmetry-aware deep learning models, particularly diffusion models, have been extensively studied, which treat CSP as a conditional generation task. However, ensuring…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-09 Peijia Lin , Pin Chen , Rui Jiao , Qing Mo , Jianhuan Cen , Wenbing Huang , Yang Liu , Dan Huang , Yutong Lu

Wigner's seminal work on the Poincar\'e group revealed one of the fundamental principles of quantum theory: symmetry groups are projectively represented. The condensed-matter counterparts of the Poincar\'e group could be the spacetime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Zheng Zhang , Z. Y. Chen , Y. X. Zhao

Generative models have become significant assets in the exploration and identification of new materials, enabling the rapid proposal of candidate crystal structures that satisfy target properties. Despite the increasing adoption of diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Charles Rhys Campbell , Aldo H. Romero , Kamal Choudhary

A symmetry on rigid motion is one of the salient factors in efficient learning of 3D point cloud problems. Group convolution has been a representative method to extract equivariant features, but its realizations have struggled to retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jaein Kim , Hee Bin Yoo , Dong-Sig Han , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Extracting 3D atomic coordinates from spectroscopic data is a longstanding inverse problem. We present an equivariant diffusion model that generates site-specific 3D structures directly from near-edge spectra (ELNES/XANES). Trained on Si-O…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-19 Ren Okubo , Yu Fujikata , Izumi Takahara , Teruyasu Mizoguchi

Generative models have achieved impressive results in many domains including image and text generation. In the natural sciences, generative models have led to rapid progress in automated drug discovery. Many of the current methods focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Jordan Hoffmann , Louis Maestrati , Yoshihide Sawada , Jian Tang , Jean Michel Sellier , Yoshua Bengio

Diffusion-based generative models in SE(3)-invariant space have demonstrated promising performance in molecular conformation generation, but typically require solving stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with thousands of update steps.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Zihan Zhou , Ruiying Liu , Tianshu Yu

3D molecule generation is crucial for drug discovery and material science, requiring models to process complex multi-modalities, including atom types, chemical bonds, and 3D coordinates. A key challenge is integrating these modalities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yanchen Luo , Zhiyuan Liu , Yi Zhao , Sihang Li , Hengxing Cai , Kenji Kawaguchi , Tat-Seng Chua , Yang Zhang , Xiang Wang

Efficient exploration of the vast chemical space is a fundamental challenge in materials design and discovery, particularly for designing functional inorganic crystalline materials with targeted properties. Diffusion-based generative models…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Sourav Mal , Nehad Ahmed , Junaid Jami , Subhankar Mishra , Prasenjit Sen

Crystal structure modeling with graph neural networks is essential for various applications in materials informatics, and capturing SE(3)-invariant geometric features is a fundamental requirement for these networks. A straightforward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yusei Ito , Tatsunori Taniai , Ryo Igarashi , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Kanta Ono

Two-dimensional crystals, single sheets of layered materials, often show distinct properties desired for optoelectronic applications, such as larger and direct band gaps, valley- and spinorbit effects. Being atomically thin, the low amount…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Roman Kempt , Agnieszka Kuc , Jae Hyo Han , Jinwoo Cheon , Thomas Heine

Two novel three-dimensional (3D) crystal structures of carbon (C) and germanium carbide (GeC2) were predicted using first-principles density-functional theory (DFT) calculations. These newly discovered 3D carbon allotrope and GeC2 are in…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-15 Ying Yang , Guang Yang , Xihong Peng