Screening of material defects using universal machine-learning interatomic potentials

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Hauptverfasser: Berger, Ethan, Bagheri, Mohammad, Komsa, Hannu-Pekka
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author Berger, Ethan
Bagheri, Mohammad
Komsa, Hannu-Pekka
author_facet Berger, Ethan
Bagheri, Mohammad
Komsa, Hannu-Pekka
contents Finding new materials with previously unknown atomic structure or materials with optimal set of properties for a specific application greatly benefits from computational modeling. Recently, such screening has been dramatically accelerated by the invent of universal machine-learning interatomic potentials that offer first principles accuracy at orders of magnitude lower computational cost. Their application to the screening of defects with desired properties or to finding new stable compounds with high density of defects, however, has not been explored. Here, we show that the universal machine-learning interatomic potentials have reached sufficient accuracy to enable large-scale screening of defective materials. We carried out vacancy calculations for 86 259 materials in the Materials Project database and analyzed the formation energies in terms of oxidation numbers. We further demonstrate the application of these models for finding new materials at or below the convex hull of known materials and for simulated etching of low-dimensional materials.
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spellingShingle Screening of material defects using universal machine-learning interatomic potentials
Berger, Ethan
Bagheri, Mohammad
Komsa, Hannu-Pekka
Materials Science
Computational Physics
Finding new materials with previously unknown atomic structure or materials with optimal set of properties for a specific application greatly benefits from computational modeling. Recently, such screening has been dramatically accelerated by the invent of universal machine-learning interatomic potentials that offer first principles accuracy at orders of magnitude lower computational cost. Their application to the screening of defects with desired properties or to finding new stable compounds with high density of defects, however, has not been explored. Here, we show that the universal machine-learning interatomic potentials have reached sufficient accuracy to enable large-scale screening of defective materials. We carried out vacancy calculations for 86 259 materials in the Materials Project database and analyzed the formation energies in terms of oxidation numbers. We further demonstrate the application of these models for finding new materials at or below the convex hull of known materials and for simulated etching of low-dimensional materials.
title Screening of material defects using universal machine-learning interatomic potentials
topic Materials Science
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06993