arXiv:2606. 14003v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Determining the crystal structure of a material from its powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) pattern is a central challenge in materials science.
By Nofit Segal, Mingda Li, Benjamin Kurt Miller, Rafael G\'omez-Bombarelli
arXiv:2608. 06448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recovering a periodic 3D crystal structure from sparse, unindexed electron diffraction (ED) observations is a challenging generative inverse problem.
By Germain Poloudenny, Ya\"el Fr\'egier, Arnaud Demorti\`ere
arXiv:2607. 08470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fully characterizing a crystalline material requires integrating heterogeneous data sources -- atomic structures, diffraction patterns, electronic density of states, and natural language -- each of which captures a different facet of the same physical object.
By Le Yang (Institute for Advanced Simulations), Anoop K. Chandran (J\"ulich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum J\"ulich), Jona \"Ostreicher (Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Evgenii Sovetkin (J\"ulich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum J\"ulich), Adrian Mirza (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin f\"ur Materialien und Energie, Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications Jena), Sebastien Bompas (Institute for Advanced Simulations), Bashir Kazimi (Institute for Advanced Simulations), Pascal Friederich (Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Stefan Kesselheim (J\"ulich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum J\"ulich, 1. Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne), Kevin Maik Jablonka (Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications Jena, Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena, Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Stefan Sandfeld (Institute for Advanced Simulations, Faculty 5 - Georesources and Materials Engineering, RWTH Aachen University)
4DMulti is a physics‑guided learning framework that automates multicomponent identification from large‑scale four‑dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy data. It leverages a 6‑million‑pattern diffraction database, a retrieval‑conditioned latent diffusion transformer (Sim2real) for realistic pattern generation, and a rotation‑invariant convolutional network for phase classification, achieving 98.82% accuracy on a five‑phase benchmark. The method introduces a diffraction‑inferred structural complexity metric and produces single‑nanometer‑resolution structural maps of complex material interfaces such as superconducting heterostructures, corroded alloys, and degraded solid‑state battery interfaces.
By Haoran Zhang, Zian Mao, Shufen Chu, Xiaoya He, Yuyan Guan, Antong Yang, Mingze Li, Xiaoqin Zeng, Yujun Xie
CrystalMO‑TuRBO is a multi‑objective trust‑region Bayesian optimization framework designed for joint crystal structure refinement using X‑ray and neutron diffraction data. It treats the discrepancies from each modality as separate objectives, first exploring the parameter space globally with parallel Bayesian optimization across multiple scalarizations, then refining locally within a shrinking trust region to achieve high‑precision solutions. Experiments on single‑crystal Ho₂Ti₂O₇ data show that this two‑phase approach improves convergence, robustness, and parameter precision over traditional least‑squares, likelihood‑based, and single‑objective Bayesian methods.
By Joseph Agada, Yishu Wang, Arpan Biswas
arXiv:2610.07862v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: A central challenge for scientific agents is to turn analytical experience into reusable expertise grounded in physical evidence. Here we introduce G...
By Bin Cao, Huichi Zhou, Runyu Yang, Jingsong Li, Shuchen Sun, Yan Song, Hanyu Gao, Zhongwei Yu, Tong-Yi Zhang, Jun Wang
arXiv:2609.22376v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Quantitative analysis of experimental powder X-ray diffraction data remains challenging when evaluating complex multiphase materials and noisy measur...
By H. Dong, S. D. M. Jacques, M. Q. Hlatshwayo, E. Papoutsellis, K. Georgopoulos, A. M. Beale, A. Vamvakeros
arXiv:2602. 17176v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Crystal structure prediction (CSP), which aims to predict the 3D atomic arrangement of a crystal from its composition, is central to materials discovery and mechanistic understanding.
By Jinming Mu, Lixin He, Xudong Zhu, Shi Yin
The paper presents a cross‑modal learning framework that predicts three‑dimensional dislocation density fields directly from X‑ray diffraction data. By pairing simulated dislocation density fields with virtual diffraction patterns and embedding them into a shared 2‑D latent space via contrastive learning, the authors achieve strong alignment between structural and diffraction representations. Experiments show that model performance improves rapidly with dataset size, reaching near‑saturation with about 500 representative observations out of 10,000, and the predicted structures capture the dominant spatial features of the underlying microstructures.
By Benjamin Udofia, Nicolas Bertin, Markus Stricker
arXiv:2609.14348v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Heterogeneous interfaces dictate the performance and degradation of functional materials, making it essential to link local structural variations wit...
By Haoran Zhang, Zian Mao, Shufen Chu, Xiaoya He, Yuyan Guan, Antong Yang, Mingze Li, Xiaoqin Zeng, Yujun Xie
arXiv:2410. 08562v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Advanced crystal design can accelerate materials discovery across applications from photovoltaics to spintronics.
By Akihiro Fujii, Yoshitaka Ushiku, Koji Shimizu, Anh Khoa Augustin Lu, Satoshi Watanabe
arXiv:2505. 12650v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reconstructing atomistic crystal structures from a single noisy STEM projection is an ill-posed inverse problem: multiple lattices can explain similar contrast, and purely feed-forward models cannot verify physical validity.
By Yaotian Yang, Yiwen Tang, Yizhe Chen, Xiao Chen, Jiangjie Qiu, Hao Xiong, Haoyu Yin, Zhiyao Luo, Yifei Zhang, Sijia Tao, Wentao Li, Qinghua Zhang, Yuqiang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Bin Zhao, Xiaonan Wang, Fei Wei