Computing the bridge length: the key ingredient in a continuous isometry classification of periodic point sets

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Main Authors: McManus, Jonathan, Kurlin, Vitaliy
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author McManus, Jonathan
Kurlin, Vitaliy
author_facet McManus, Jonathan
Kurlin, Vitaliy
contents The fundamental model of any periodic crystal is a periodic set of points at all atomic centres. Since crystal structures are determined in a rigid form, their strongest equivalence is rigid motion (composition of translations and rotations) or isometry (also including reflections). The recent classification of periodic point sets under rigid motion used a complete invariant isoset whose size essentially depends on the bridge length, defined as the minimum `jump' that suffices to connect any points in the given set. We propose a practical algorithm to compute the bridge length of any periodic point set given by a motif of points in a periodically translated unit cell. The algorithm has been tested on a large crystal dataset and is required for an efficient continuous classification of all periodic crystals. The exact computation of the bridge length is a key step to realising the inverse design of materials from new invariant values.
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spellingShingle Computing the bridge length: the key ingredient in a continuous isometry classification of periodic point sets
McManus, Jonathan
Kurlin, Vitaliy
Computational Geometry
Materials Science
68U05, 74E15, 51M15
The fundamental model of any periodic crystal is a periodic set of points at all atomic centres. Since crystal structures are determined in a rigid form, their strongest equivalence is rigid motion (composition of translations and rotations) or isometry (also including reflections). The recent classification of periodic point sets under rigid motion used a complete invariant isoset whose size essentially depends on the bridge length, defined as the minimum `jump' that suffices to connect any points in the given set. We propose a practical algorithm to compute the bridge length of any periodic point set given by a motif of points in a periodically translated unit cell. The algorithm has been tested on a large crystal dataset and is required for an efficient continuous classification of all periodic crystals. The exact computation of the bridge length is a key step to realising the inverse design of materials from new invariant values.
title Computing the bridge length: the key ingredient in a continuous isometry classification of periodic point sets
topic Computational Geometry
Materials Science
68U05, 74E15, 51M15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23288