The concept of hyperuniformity has been a useful tool in the study of density fluctuations at large length scales in systems ranging across the natural and mathematical sciences. One can rank a large class of hyperuni...
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The concept of hyperuniformity has been a useful tool in the study of density fluctuations at large length scales in systems ranging across the natural and mathematical sciences. One can rank a large class of hyperuniform systems by their ability to suppress long-range density fluctuations through the use of a hyperuniformity order metric Λ¯. We apply this order metric to the Barlow packings, which are the infinitely degenerate densest packings of identical rigid spheres that are distinguished by their stacking geometries and include the commonly known fcc lattice and hcp crystal. The “stealthy stacking” theorem implies that these packings are all stealthy hyperuniform, a strong type of hyperuniformity, which involves the suppression of scattering up to a wave vector K. We describe the geometry of three classes of Barlow packings, two disordered classes and small-period packings. In addition, we compute a lower bound on K for all Barlow packings. We compute Λ¯ for the aforementioned three classes of Barlow packings and find that, to a very good approximation, it is linear in the fraction of fcc-like clusters, taking values between those of least-ordered hcp and most-ordered fcc. This implies that the value of Λ¯ of all Barlow packings is primarily controlled by the local cluster geometry. These results highlight the special nature of anisotropic stacking disorder, which provides impetus for future research on the development of anisotropic order metrics and hyperuniformity properties.
The stochastic Euler scheme is known to converge to the exact solution of a stochastic differential equation (SDE) with globally Lipschitz continuous drift and diffusion coefficients. Recent results extend this conver...
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Machine learning models are changing the paradigm of molecular modeling, which is a fundamental tool for material science, chemistry, and computational biology. Of particular interest is the inter-atomic potential ene...
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We report on an extensive study of the viscosity of liquid water at near-ambient conditions,performed within the Green-Kubo theory of linear response and equilibrium ab initio molecular dynamics(AIMD),based on density...
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We report on an extensive study of the viscosity of liquid water at near-ambient conditions,performed within the Green-Kubo theory of linear response and equilibrium ab initio molecular dynamics(AIMD),based on density-functional theory(DFT).In order to cope with the long simulation times necessary to achieve an acceptable statistical accuracy,our ab initio approach is enhanced with deep-neural-network potentials(NNP).This approach is first validated against AIMD results,obtained by using the Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof(PBE)exchange-correlation functional and paying careful attention to crucial,yet often overlooked,aspects of the statistical data ***,we train a second NNP to a dataset generated from the Strongly Constrained and Appropriately Normed(SCAN)*** the error resulting from the imperfect prediction of the melting line is offset by referring the simulated temperature to the theoretical melting one,our SCAN predictions of the shear viscosity of water are in very good agreement with experiments.
We propose a nonlocal kinetic energy density functional (KEDF) for semiconductors based on the expected asymptotic behavior of its susceptibility function. The KEDF’s kernel depends on both the electron density and t...
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We propose a nonlocal kinetic energy density functional (KEDF) for semiconductors based on the expected asymptotic behavior of its susceptibility function. The KEDF’s kernel depends on both the electron density and the reduced density gradient, with an internal parameter formally related to the material’s static dielectric constant. We determine the accuracy of the KEDF within orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) by applying it to a variety of common semiconductors. With only two adjustable parameters, the KEDF reproduces quite well the exact noninteracting KEDF (i.e., Kohn-Sham DFT) predictions of bulk moduli, equilibrium volumes, and equilibrium energies. The two parameters in our KEDF are sensitive primarily to changes in the local crystal structure (such as atomic coordination number) and exhibit good transferability between different tetrahedrally-bonded phases. This local crystal structure dependence is rationalized by considering Thomas-Fermi dielectric screening theory.
The usual formula for the scalar aerial image of an isolated object due to a projection lens system has been generalized beyond the paraxial approximation in an attempt to extend scalar diffraction theory to include n...
The usual formula for the scalar aerial image of an isolated object due to a projection lens system has been generalized beyond the paraxial approximation in an attempt to extend scalar diffraction theory to include numerical aperture (NA) values up to about 0.6. Beyond this regime, or certainly beyond NA=0.7, polarization effects need to be included, thereby demanding a full vector treatment and invalidating the present scalar formulation. A key point to the present scalar result without the paraxial approximation is the predicted functional dependence of the aerial image on magnification as NA increases. A second key point is that the usual scaling of λ/NA for the object dimensions and λ/NA2 for defocus become invalid for high NA systems. Numerical results of illustrative test cases are shown.
An active learning procedure called deep potential generator (DP-GEN) is proposed for the construction of accurate and transferable machine learning-based models of the potential energy surface (PES) for the molecular...
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An active learning procedure called deep potential generator (DP-GEN) is proposed for the construction of accurate and transferable machine learning-based models of the potential energy surface (PES) for the molecular modeling of materials. This procedure consists of three main components: exploration, generation of accurate reference data, and training. Application to the sample systems of Al, Mg, and Al-Mg alloys demonstrates that DP-GEN can produce uniformly accurate PES models with a minimal number of reference data.
Using the Deep Potential methodology, we construct a model that reproduces accurately the potential energy surface of the SCAN approximation of density functional theory for water, from low temperature and pressure to...
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Using the Deep Potential methodology, we construct a model that reproduces accurately the potential energy surface of the SCAN approximation of density functional theory for water, from low temperature and pressure to about 2400 K and 50 GPa, excluding the vapor stability region. The computational efficiency of the model makes it possible to predict its phase diagram using molecular dynamics. Satisfactory overall agreement with experimental results is obtained. The fluid phases, molecular and ionic, and all the stable ice polymorphs, ordered and disordered, are predicted correctly, with the exception of ice III and XV that are stable in experiments, but metastable in the model. The evolution of the atomic dynamics upon heating, as ice VII transforms first into ice VII′′ and then into an ionic fluid, reveals that molecular dissociation and breaking of the ice rules coexist with strong covalent fluctuations, explaining why only partial ionization was inferred in experiments.
In cryo-electron microscopy, the 3D electric potentials of an ensemble of molecules are projected along arbitrary viewing directions to yield noisy 2D images. The volume maps representing these potentials typically ex...
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A three‐dimensional computational simulator of nonplanar substrates coated with positive photoresists is presented. The model includes four major steps: projection printing, exposure, post‐exposure baking (PEB), and...
A three‐dimensional computational simulator of nonplanar substrates coated with positive photoresists is presented. The model includes four major steps: projection printing, exposure, post‐exposure baking (PEB), and dissolution. Projection printing is based on Hopkins’ classical work. The exposure model employs the full nonlinear wave equation coupled with the photoactive compound (PAC) bleaching rate equation. These equations are solved using a spectral element iterative scheme. The PEB is treated as a material diffusion equation employing ideas introduced by Mack and the dissolution algorithm is our LEAD (least action dissolution) algorithm modified for nonplanar substrates. Several realistic examples are presented displaying final profiles at various dissolution times.
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