Compressing and forecasting atomic material simulations with descriptors

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Main Author: Swinburne, Thomas D
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contents Atomic simulations of material microstructure require significant resources to generate, store and analyze. Here, atomic descriptor functions are proposed as a general latent space to compress atomic microstructure, ideal for use in large-scale simulations. Descriptors can regress a broad range of properties, including character-dependent dislocation densities, stress states or radial distribution functions. A vector autoregressive model can generate trajectories over yield points, resample from new initial conditions and forecast trajectory futures. A forecast confidence, essential for practical application, is derived by propagating forecasts through the Mahalanobis outlier distance, providing a powerful tool to assess coarse-grained models. Application to nanoparticles and yielding of dislocation networks confirms low uncertainty forecasts are accurate and resampling allows for the propagation of smooth microstructure distributions. Yielding is associated with a collapse in the intrinsic dimension of the descriptor manifold, which is discussed in relation to the yield surface.
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spellingShingle Compressing and forecasting atomic material simulations with descriptors
Swinburne, Thomas D
Materials Science
Computational Physics
Atomic simulations of material microstructure require significant resources to generate, store and analyze. Here, atomic descriptor functions are proposed as a general latent space to compress atomic microstructure, ideal for use in large-scale simulations. Descriptors can regress a broad range of properties, including character-dependent dislocation densities, stress states or radial distribution functions. A vector autoregressive model can generate trajectories over yield points, resample from new initial conditions and forecast trajectory futures. A forecast confidence, essential for practical application, is derived by propagating forecasts through the Mahalanobis outlier distance, providing a powerful tool to assess coarse-grained models. Application to nanoparticles and yielding of dislocation networks confirms low uncertainty forecasts are accurate and resampling allows for the propagation of smooth microstructure distributions. Yielding is associated with a collapse in the intrinsic dimension of the descriptor manifold, which is discussed in relation to the yield surface.
title Compressing and forecasting atomic material simulations with descriptors
topic Materials Science
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02242