Alloy Informatics through Ab Initio Charge Density Profiles: Case Study of Hydrogen Effects in Face-Centered Cubic Crystals

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Autori principali: Massa, Dario, Kaxiras, Efthimios, Papanikolaou, Stefanos
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author Massa, Dario
Kaxiras, Efthimios
Papanikolaou, Stefanos
author_facet Massa, Dario
Kaxiras, Efthimios
Papanikolaou, Stefanos
contents Materials design has traditionally evolved through trial-error approaches, mainly due to the non-local relationship between microstructures and properties such as strength and toughness. We propose 'alloy informatics' as a machine learning based prototype predictive approach for alloys and compounds, using electron charge density profiles derived from first-principle calculations. We demonstrate this framework in the case of hydrogen interstitials in face-centered cubic crystals, showing that their differential electron charge density profiles capture crystal properties and defect-crystal interaction properties. Radial Distribution Functions (RDFs) of defect-induced differential charge density perturbations highlight the resulting screening effect, and, together with hydrogen Bader charges, strongly correlate to a large set of atomic properties of the metal species forming the bulk crystal. We observe the spontaneous emergence of classes of charge responses while coarse-graining over crystal compositions. Nudge-Elastic-Band calculations show that RDFs and charge features also connect to hydrogen migration energy barriers between interstitial sites. Unsupervised machine-learning on RDFs supports classification, unveiling compositional and configurational non-localities in the similarities of the perturbed densities. Electron charge density perturbations may be considered as bias-free descriptors for a large variety of defects.
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spellingShingle Alloy Informatics through Ab Initio Charge Density Profiles: Case Study of Hydrogen Effects in Face-Centered Cubic Crystals
Massa, Dario
Kaxiras, Efthimios
Papanikolaou, Stefanos
Materials Science
Atomic Physics
Chemical Physics
Computational Physics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Materials design has traditionally evolved through trial-error approaches, mainly due to the non-local relationship between microstructures and properties such as strength and toughness. We propose 'alloy informatics' as a machine learning based prototype predictive approach for alloys and compounds, using electron charge density profiles derived from first-principle calculations. We demonstrate this framework in the case of hydrogen interstitials in face-centered cubic crystals, showing that their differential electron charge density profiles capture crystal properties and defect-crystal interaction properties. Radial Distribution Functions (RDFs) of defect-induced differential charge density perturbations highlight the resulting screening effect, and, together with hydrogen Bader charges, strongly correlate to a large set of atomic properties of the metal species forming the bulk crystal. We observe the spontaneous emergence of classes of charge responses while coarse-graining over crystal compositions. Nudge-Elastic-Band calculations show that RDFs and charge features also connect to hydrogen migration energy barriers between interstitial sites. Unsupervised machine-learning on RDFs supports classification, unveiling compositional and configurational non-localities in the similarities of the perturbed densities. Electron charge density perturbations may be considered as bias-free descriptors for a large variety of defects.
title Alloy Informatics through Ab Initio Charge Density Profiles: Case Study of Hydrogen Effects in Face-Centered Cubic Crystals
topic Materials Science
Atomic Physics
Chemical Physics
Computational Physics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13673