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Crystal structure prediction using ab initio evolutionary techniques: Principles and applications

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Oganov, Artem R., Glass, Colin W.·2006·The Journal of Chemical Physics

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We have developed an efficient and reliable methodology for crystal structure prediction, merging ab initio total-energy calculations and a specifically devised evolutionary algorithm. This method allows one to predict the most stable crystal structure and a number of low-energy metastable structures for a given compound at any P-T conditions without requiring any experimental input. Extremely high (nearly 100%) success rate has been observed in a few tens of tests done so far, including ionic, covalent, metallic, and molecular structures with up to 40 atoms in the unit cell. We have been able to resolve some important problems in high-pressure crystallography and report a number of new high-pressure crystal structures (stable phases: ε-oxygen, new phase of sulphur, new metastable phases of carbon, sulphur and nitrogen, stable and metastable phases of CaCO3). Physical reasons for the success of this methodology are discussed.

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  • The problem of obtaining a complete yet concise description of a molecular or condensed-phase structure is central to many modelling techniques.

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Authors
Oganov, A. R., & Glass, C. W.
Affiliations
  • ETH Zurich Laboratory of Crystallography, Department of Materials, , HCI G 515, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
  • ETH Zurich (CH)
Venue
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Published
2006-06-28
Volume
124
Issue
24
Pages
244704-244704
ISSN
  • 0021-9606 (ISSN-L)
  • 1089-7690
OpenAlex
W2024330948
Cited by
2,596
References
79
Citations by year
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FWCI
32.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (111847, 200021-111847/1, 200021)
  • Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
  • China Scholarship Council
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
Keywords
crystal structure prediction, evolutionary algorithms, ab initio total energy calculations, metastable phases, high-pressure crystal structure, high-pressure carbon, high-pressure nitrogen, phase stability

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