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Classifying a crystalline solid's phase using X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a challenging endeavor, first because this is a poorly constrained problem as there are nearly limitless candidate phases to compare against a given experimental…

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In materials discovery, the integration of first-principles calculations with machine learning techniques has been actively studied for two key tasks: crystal structure prediction, which searches for stable structures given a chemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Akira Kusaba , Tetsuji Kuboyama , Karol Kawka , Pawel Kempisty , Yoshihiro Kangawa

Discovering functional crystalline materials through computational methods remains a formidable challenge in materials science. Here, we introduce VQCrystal, an innovative deep learning framework that leverages discrete latent…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-11 ZiJie Qiu , Luozhijie Jin , Zijian Du , Hongyu Chen , Yan Cen , Siqi Sun , Yongfeng Mei , Hao Zhang

Autonomous materials discovery with desired properties is one of the ultimate goals for materials science, and the current studies have been focusing mostly on high-throughput screening based on density functional theory calculations and…

A method for estimating the relative content of crystalline phases of a multiphase sample, based on probabilistic analysis of the intensities of the diffraction pattern reflexes, has been developed. The method is based on the introduction…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-21 S. V. Gabielkov , I. V. Zhyganiuk , A. D. Skorbun

Coherent diffractive imaging (CDI), using both X-rays and electrons, has made extremely rapid progress over the past two decades. The associated reconstruction algorithms are typically iterative, and seeded with a crude first estimate. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Konstantin M. Pavlov , Kaye S. Morgan , Vasily I. Punegov , David M. Paganin

Crystal structures can be predicted from first-principles using ab initio random structure searching AIRSS and density functional theory (DFT). AIRSS provides a method to sample the potential energy landscape and DFT provides a robust and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Lewis J. Conway , Chris J. Pickard

Two novel (and proprietary) strategies for the structural identification of a nanocrystal from either a single high-resolution (HR) transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image or a single precession electron diffraction pattern are…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-02 Peter Moeck

We present detailed elaboration and first generally applicable linearization routines of the \textit{Parameter Space Concept} (PSC) for determining 1-dimensionally projected structures of $m$ independent scatterers. This crystal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Muthu Vallinayagam , Melanie Nentwich , Dirk C. Meyer , Matthias Zschornak

Geometric information such as the space groups and crystal systems plays an important role in the properties of crystal materials. Prediction of crystal system and space group thus has wide applications in crystal material property…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Yuxin Li , Rongzhi Dong , Wenhui Yang , Jianjun Hu

Evolutionary crystal structure prediction proved to be a powerful approach for studying a wide range of materials. Here, we present a specifically designed algorithm for the prediction of the structure of complex crystals consisting of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-21 Qiang Zhu , Artem R. Oganov , Colin W. Glass , Harold T. Stokes

Crystalline structure prediction is an essential prerequisite for designing materials with targeted properties. Yet, it is still an open challenge in materials design and drug discovery. Despite recent advances in computational materials…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Emmanuel Jehanno , Romain Menegaux , Julien Mairal , Sergei Grudinin

It is essential to know the arrangement of the atoms in a material in order to compute and understand its properties. Searching for stable structures of materials using first-principles electronic structure methods, such as density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-17 Chris J. Pickard , R. J. Needs

We present a high-throughput, end-to-end pipeline for organic crystal structure prediction (CSP) -- the problem of identifying the stable crystal structures that will form from a given molecule based only on its molecular composition. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Amit Kadan , Kevin Ryczko , Andrew Wildman , Rodrigo Wang , Adrian Roitberg , Takeshi Yamazaki

Crystal structures are characterized by atomic bases within a primitive unit cell that repeats along a regular lattice throughout 3D space. The periodic and infinite nature of crystals poses unique challenges for geometric graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Keqiang Yan , Cong Fu , Xiaofeng Qian , Xiaoning Qian , Shuiwang Ji

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) for inorganic materials is one of the central and most challenging problems in materials science and computational chemistry. This problem can be formulated as a global optimization problem in which global…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Jianjun Hu , Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane

The functionality of materials is determined by their composition and microstructure, that is, the distribution and orientation of crystalline grains, grain boundaries and the defects within them. The characterisation of the material's…

Predicting and characterizing the crystal structure of materials is a key problem in materials research and development. We report the results of ab initio LDA/GGA computations for the following systems: AgAu, AgCd, AgMg, AgMo*, AgNa,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 Stefano Curtarolo , Dane Morgan , Gerbrand Ceder

We propose an efficient algorithm to analyze $3D$ atomic resolution crystal images based on a fast $3D$ synchrosqueezed wave packet transform. The proposed algorithm can automatically extract microscopic information from $3D$ atomic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Tao Zhang , Ling Li , Haizhao Yang

We propose efficient algorithms based on a band-limited version of 2D synchrosqueezed transforms to extract mesoscopic and microscopic information from atomic crystal images. The methods analyze atomic crystal images as an assemblage of…

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