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A new graph-based order parameter is introduced for the characterization of atomistic structures. The order parameter is universal to any material/chemical system, and is transferable to all structural geometries. Three sets of data are…

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Polynomial machine learning potentials (MLPs) based on polynomial rotational invariants have been systematically developed for various systems and applied to efficiently predict crystal structures. In this study, we propose a robust…

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We introduce an atomistic classifier based on a combination of spectral graph theory and a Voronoi tessellation method. This classifier allows for the discrimination between structures from different minima of a potential energy surface,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Andreas Møller Slavensky , Bjørk Hammer

One exact and two heuristic algorithms for determining the generators, orbits and order of the graph automorphism group are presented. A basic tool of these algorithms is the well-known individualization and refinement procedure. A search…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Stoicho D. Stoichev

An optimal control approach based on multiple parameter genetic algorithms is applied to the design of plasmonic nanoconstructs with pre-determined optical properties and functionalities. We first develop nanoscale metallic lenses that…

Optics · Physics 2008-08-14 Joseph Yelk , Maxim Sukharev , Tamar Seideman

Crystal structure determination from powder diffraction patterns is a complex challenge in materials science, often requiring extensive expertise and computational resources. This study introduces DiffractGPT, a generative pre-trained…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-13 Kamal Choudhary

Recent advances in deep learning have enabled the generation of realistic data by training generative models on large datasets of text, images, and audio. While these models have demonstrated exceptional performance in generating novel and…

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Functions of chemical composition are complex and discrete in nature making it impossible to optimize them with gradient methods. Genetic algorithms, which do not use derivative information, are used to maximize the thermal conductivity of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-30 Alexander Kerr , Kieran Mullen

A new method is presented to generate atomic structures that reproduce the essential characteristics of arbitrary material systems, phases, or ensembles. Previous methods allow one to reproduce the essential characteristics (e.g. chemical…

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Working with exhaustive search on large dataset is infeasible for several reasons. Recently, developed techniques that made pattern set mining feasible by a general solver with long execution time that supports heuristic search and are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Shanjida Khatun , Hasib Ul Alam , Swakkhar Shatabda

The discovery of novel solid-state materials, such as electrocatalysts, super-ionic conductors, or photovoltaic materials, plays a critical role in addressing various global challenges. It has, for instance, the potential to significantly…

We propose a new generalized-ensemble algorithm, which we refer to as the multicanonical-multioverlap algorithm. By utilizing a non-Boltzmann weight factor, this method realizes a random walk in the multi-dimensional, energy-overlap space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Satoru G. Itoh , Yuko Okamoto

Predicting the stability of crystals is one of the central problems in materials science. Today, density functional theory (DFT) calculations are the computational tool of choice to obtain energies of crystals with quantitative accuracy.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Weike Ye , Chi Chen , Zhenbin Wang , Iek-Heng Chu , Shyue Ping Ong

The generation of plausible crystal structures is often the first step in predicting the structure and properties of a material from its chemical composition. Quickly generating and predicting inorganic crystal structures is important for…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-13 Luis M. Antunes , Keith T. Butler , Ricardo Grau-Crespo

Predicting the cheapest sample size for the optimal stratification in multivariate survey design is a problem in cases where the population frame is large. A solution exists that iteratively searches for the minimum sample size necessary to…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-06-18 Mervyn O'Luing , Steven Prestwich , S. Armagan Tarim

Our main motivation is to propose an efficient approach to generate novel multi-element stable chemical compounds that can be used in real world applications. This task can be formulated as a combinatorial problem, and it takes many hours…

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Crystal generative models have shown rapid progress for accelerating the discovery of bulk, periodic materials. However, many material systems such as 2D superconductors, thin film semiconductors, and catalytic surfaces are diperiodic,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-12 Rees Chang , Andrew Novick , Ryan P Adams , Elif Ertekin

Application of Genetic Algorithm (GA) for determination of parameters of an analytical representation of diatomic molecule potential is presented. GA can be used for finding potential characteristics of an electronic energy state which can…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Tomasz Urbanczyk , Jaroslaw Koperski

Determining whether a candidate crystalline material is thermodynamically stable depends on identifying its true ground-state structure, a central challenge in computational materials science. We introduce CrystalGRW, a diffusion-based…