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Main Authors: Jasperson, Benjamin A., Nikiforov, Ilia, Samanta, Amit, Runnels, Brandon, Johnson, Harley T., Tadmor, Ellad B.
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16770
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author Jasperson, Benjamin A.
Nikiforov, Ilia
Samanta, Amit
Runnels, Brandon
Johnson, Harley T.
Tadmor, Ellad B.
author_facet Jasperson, Benjamin A.
Nikiforov, Ilia
Samanta, Amit
Runnels, Brandon
Johnson, Harley T.
Tadmor, Ellad B.
contents Correlations between fundamental microscopic properties computable from first principles, which we term canonical properties, and complex large-scale quantities of interest (QoIs) provide an avenue to predictive materials discovery. We propose that such correlations can be efficiently discovered through simulations utilizing approximate interatomic potentials (IPs), which serve as an ensemble of "synthetic materials." As a proof of principle we build a regression model relating canonical properties to the symmetric tilt grain boundary (GB) energy curves in face-centered cubic crystals, characterized by the scaling factor in the universal lattice matching model of Runnels et al. (2016), which we take to be our QoI. Our analysis recovers known correlations of GB energy to other properties and discovers new ones. We also demonstrate, using available density functional theory (DFT) GB energy data, that the regression model constructed from IP data is consistent with DFT results, confirming the assumption that the IPs and DFT belong to same statistical pool and thereby validating the approach. Regression models constructed in this fashion can be used to predict large-scale QoIs based on first-principles data and provide a general method for training IPs for QoIs beyond the scope of first-principles calculations.
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spellingShingle Fundamental Microscopic Properties as Predictors of Large-Scale Quantities of Interest: Validation through Grain Boundary Energy Trends
Jasperson, Benjamin A.
Nikiforov, Ilia
Samanta, Amit
Runnels, Brandon
Johnson, Harley T.
Tadmor, Ellad B.
Materials Science
Correlations between fundamental microscopic properties computable from first principles, which we term canonical properties, and complex large-scale quantities of interest (QoIs) provide an avenue to predictive materials discovery. We propose that such correlations can be efficiently discovered through simulations utilizing approximate interatomic potentials (IPs), which serve as an ensemble of "synthetic materials." As a proof of principle we build a regression model relating canonical properties to the symmetric tilt grain boundary (GB) energy curves in face-centered cubic crystals, characterized by the scaling factor in the universal lattice matching model of Runnels et al. (2016), which we take to be our QoI. Our analysis recovers known correlations of GB energy to other properties and discovers new ones. We also demonstrate, using available density functional theory (DFT) GB energy data, that the regression model constructed from IP data is consistent with DFT results, confirming the assumption that the IPs and DFT belong to same statistical pool and thereby validating the approach. Regression models constructed in this fashion can be used to predict large-scale QoIs based on first-principles data and provide a general method for training IPs for QoIs beyond the scope of first-principles calculations.
title Fundamental Microscopic Properties as Predictors of Large-Scale Quantities of Interest: Validation through Grain Boundary Energy Trends
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16770