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Magnet/superconductor hybrid systems have been put forward as a platform for realizing topological superconductivity. We investigated the heterostructure of ferromagnetic monolayer CrCl₃ and superconducting NbSe₂. Using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, we observe topologically trivial Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states localized at the edge of CrCl₃ islands. DFT simulations reveal that the Cr atoms at the edge have an enhanced d-orbital DOS close to the Fermi energy. This leads to an exchange coupling between these atoms and the substrate that rationalizes the edge-localization of the YSR states.

This dataset contains the first-principles calculations performed on a nanoribbon of CrCl₃ on NbSe₂ and the associated notebooks used to generate figures from this data.

en: One dimensional edge localized YSR states in CrCl₃ on NbSe₂

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Accelerating the explorations of stationary points on potential energy surfaces building local surrogates spans decades of effort. Done correctly, surrogates reduce required evaluations by an order of magnitude while preserving the accuracy of the underlying theory. We present a unified Bayesian Optimization view of minimization, single point saddle searches, and double ended saddle searches through a unified six-step surrogate loop, differing only in the inner optimization target and acquisition criterion. The framework uses Gaussian process regression with derivative observations, inverse-distance kernels, and active learning. The Optimal Transport GP extensions of farthest point sampling with Earth mover's distance, MAP regularization via variance barrier and oscillation detection, and adaptive trust radius form concrete extensions of the same basic methodology, improving accuracy and efficiency. We also demonstrate random Fourier features decouple hyperparameter training from predictions enabling favorable scaling for high-dimensional systems. Accompanying pedagogical Rust code demonstrates that all applications use the exact same Bayesian optimization loop, bridging the gap between theoretical formulation and practical execution.

This dataset contains the raw data and models for generating the results in the manuscript.

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Materials Cloud is a platform built to enable the seamless sharing and dissemination of resources in computational materials science, offering educational, research, and archiving tools; simulation software and services; and curated and raw data. These underpin published results and empower data-based discovery, compliant with data management plans and the FAIR principles.

In the Materials Cloud you can browse, explore, download, or deposit raw and curated data (in the Discover, Explore, and Archive sections); you can access cloud or redeployable simulation services (from AiiDAlab turnkey simulations to the Quantum Mobile virtual machine, the AiiDA registry of plugins and workflows, and the OSSCAR notebooks, in the Work section), and you can use all our educational material, tutorials and lectures (in the Learn section).

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en: Bayesian optimization with Gaussian processes to accelerate stationary point searches

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en: Density-functional theory with on-site U and inter-site V Hubbard corrections (DFT+U+V) is widely used to predict properties of transition-metal and rare-earth compounds, but its accuracy depends critically on how these parameters are obtained. While they can be determined empirically, first-principles approaches offer better consistency, though their results can differ and a systematic comparison is lacking. Here, we compare two widely used approaches, linear-response theory (LRT) and the Hartree–Fock-based pseudohybrid functional formalism, applied to representative oxides (MnO, NiO, CoO, FeO, BaTiO3, ZnO, and ZrO2). For partially occupied transition-metal d states, both methods yield comparable U values, but they differ significantly for nearly empty or fully filled d shells. For O-2p states, LRT systematically predicts large U values (~10 eV), whereas the pseudohybrid approach gives system-dependent values. Even larger differences appear for the inter-site V: the former yields small values (<1 eV), while the latter gives larger values (~3 eV) due to its dependence on charge redistribution. We further show that the pseudopotential choice, which defines Hubbard projectors, affects the parameters and their agreement. Overall, while parallels between these two methods exist, they rely on different assumptions, leading to variations in predictions of material properties.

en: Comparing Hubbard parameters from linear-response theory and a Hartree-Fock-based approach

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en: We present a density-functional theory study of the effects of oxygen vacancies on the structural and electronic properties of vanadium dioxide (VO2). Our motivation is the reported suppression of the metal-insulator transition by oxygen vacancies and the lack of a clear consensus on its origin. We use the DFT+V method with a static intersite vanadium-vanadium interaction term, V, to calculate the properties of the oxygen-deficient metallic rutile and insulating monoclinic M1 phases of VO2 on the same footing. We find that oxygen vacancies induce local distortions in the M1 phase, but do not destroy the dimerization usually associated with the insulating behavior. In spite of this, we find that the M1 phase becomes metallic as a result of the partial filling of the conduction band due to a rigid-band-like doping effect.

en: Oxygen vacancies in vanadium dioxide: A DFT+V study

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en: We present a high-throughput computational screening for fast lithium-ion conductors aimed at identifying candidate materials for application in all-solid-state electrolytes. Beginning with more than 30,000 experimentally reported Li-containing structures drawn from the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database, the Materials Platform for Data Science (Pauling file), and the Crystallography Open Database, we apply a series of automated structural and compositional filters to obtain 1500 unique crystal structures suitable for electronic-structure calculations which yields nearly 1,000 electronic insulators. We then estimate Li-ion diffusivities for these insulating candidates using molecular dynamics simulations at multiple temperatures. To make simulations computationally feasible at this scale while preserving near first-principles fidelity, we employ a foundational machine-learned interatomic potential which is carefully fine-tuned on relevant Li-chemistries. We discuss the details of the fine-tuning strategies and data-consistency considerations required to obtain a very accurate and robust model. From the MD results, we identify three particularly promising novel oxide candidates for room-temperature solid-state electrolytes, including LiSn2(AsO4)3, LiIn(IO3)4, and LiB6S4(Cl3O4)2, which all exhibit ionic conductivity greater than 1 mS/cm at room temperature with diffusion barrier between 0.20 and 0.25 eV. We provide the full screening protocol as well as a prioritised list of materials for experimental follow-up, demonstrating the value of provenance-aware, ML-driven simulations in accelerating solid-state electrolyte discovery.

en: High-throughput screening for solid-state Li-ion conductors combining machine learning and first-principles calculations

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en: Sodium (Na) metal batteries are considered promising solutions for next-generation electrochemical energy storage because of their low costs and high energy densities. However, the slow Na dynamics result in unfavourable Na deposition and dendrite growth, which compromise cycling performance. Here we propose a nanotwinned alloy strategy prepared by high-pressure solid solution followed by Joule-heating treatment to address sluggish Na dynamics, achieving homogeneous Na deposition. By employing cost-effective Al-Si alloys for validation, Si solubility of 10 wt.% is extended through a high-pressure solid solution, and nanotwinned-Si particles, with a volume fraction of 82.7%, are subsequently formed through Joule-heating treatment. The sodiophilic nanotwinned-Si sites exhibit a high diffusion rate, which reduces the nondimensional electrochemical Damköhler number to far below 1, shifting the diffusion-controlled deposition behavior to reaction-controlled deposition. This transition facilitates spherical Na deposition and dendrite-free growth, allowing a symmetric cell to achieve stable Na plating/stripping over 5300 hours at 5 mA cm⁻² with a cumulative capacity of 13.25 Ah cm⁻². This strategy is also demonstrated in another CuAg system with nanotwinned Ag structures.The record contains data that support the findings described in the publication.

en: A nanotwinned-alloy strategy enables fast sodium deposition dynamics

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en: We develop an extensive dataset of Allen-Cahn simulations of crystal growth in 2D, including kinetic anisotropy to produce hexagonally faceted profiles, and a variable supersaturation parameter to control the growth rates and local faceting. A phase-field numerical approach based on a finite-difference explicit time integration scheme is used to generate such evolution sequences. Two Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network architectures are then exploited to train quantitative surrogate models reproducing such evolution sequences conditioned to the supersaturation value. The first infers the supersaturation parameter implicitly from an input mini-sequence of a few evolution frames while the second takes it as an explicit input along with a single initial frame. The predictive performances of the two models are evaluated by extensive testing on dedicated testsets. In particular, the analysis includes both the testing on a large dataset of the same kind of the training one, and on dedicated datasets with assigned values of the supersaturation parameter. While the architecture using the parameter as explicit input yields the best performance, with quantitative reproduction of the true phase-field solutions, the mini-sequence model produce satisfactory results only by taking comparatively larger dataset sizes. The generalization capabilities of the trained models are finally inspected by considering larger domains, longer evolution times and different initial coverages.

en: Neural surrogates for crystal growth dynamics with variable supersaturation: explicit vs. implicit conditioning

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en: In rarefied atmospheric environments, where continuum fluid dynamics breaks down, aerodynamic drag is governed by gas–surface momentum exchange, making surface structure and chemistry key design knobs. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we show that coating the α-Al2O3(0001) surface with graphene markedly reduces the tangential momentum accommodation coefficient (TMAC) of N2, shifting scattering toward more specular reflection and thereby lowering drag; we further benchmark this response against graphite. The reduction is robust and strengthens up to 900 K. While structural defects can increase TMAC – and hence drag – via defect-induced corrugation and local atomic and electronic rearrangements, graphene retains near-ideal low-TMAC performance at experimentally relevant defect densities. These results identify graphene as a thermally resilient, low-drag coating for aerospace-relevant surfaces in rarefied flows.

en: Defects, corrugation and temperature govern rarefied-air drag on graphene coatings

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en: The dataset provides records of creep properties for structural materials used in nuclear applications, focusing on the influence of specimen dimensions on time-dependent deformation behavior. It was developed through an extensive literature search of peer-reviewed articles, technical reports, and institutional databases, including contributions from 50 publications and databases. The search targeted studies presenting quantitative creep data for both standard and sub-sized specimens, with detailed information on testing conditions, specimen geometries, and material compositions. The compiled database contains 1,413 creep testing records covering parameters that include alloy type and grade, chemical composition, thermal and mechanical treatment history, irradiation conditions, specimen geometry and dimensions, and measured creep properties. The dataset encompasses material classes such as stainless steels (A709, SS304, SS316), reactor pressure vessel steels (SA533, SA508), nickel-based alloys (IN600, IN617), and zirconium alloys (Zr-2, Zr-3, Zr-4). Experts in materials science reviewed and validated all records, verifying material specifications, treatment conditions, and testing parameters for consistency and accuracy.

en: Creep dataset from peer-reviewed literature of nuclear structural materials

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en: Cs2KInI6 is a promising lead-free halide double perovskite with a calculated direct band gap of 1.94 eV, ideal for solar cell applications. Our first-principles calculations reveal that its cubic phase (Fm3̅m) is dynamically unstable. Using an accelerated machine learning approach, we identify 42 dynamically stable structures and further validate these findings using first-principles calculations on 11 of these. The most stable phase has Cmc21 symmetry with 20 atoms/unit cell. It lies 13 meV/atom above the convex hull but lacks octahedral cation coordination. The most stable perovskite-like structure has P3̅ symmetry with 10 atoms/unit cell and low octahedral connectivity. Structure-property trade-offs are highlighted, with calculated distortions generally widening the band gap, shifting it from direct to indirect, and flattening the band edges. This work showcases the synergy of genetic algorithms, machine-learned potentials, and first principles validation for discovering stable, complex materials. This archive contains all our input, output files, the data and scripts.

materialscloud

en:
Materials Cloud is a platform built to enable the seamless sharing and dissemination of resources in computational materials science, offering educational, research, and archiving tools; simulation software and services; and curated and raw data. These underpin published results and empower data-based discovery, compliant with data management plans and the FAIR principles.

In the Materials Cloud you can browse, explore, download, or deposit raw and curated data (in the Discover, Explore, and Archive sections); you can access cloud or redeployable simulation services (from AiiDAlab turnkey simulations to the Quantum Mobile virtual machine, the AiiDA registry of plugins and workflows, and the OSSCAR notebooks, in the Work section), and you can use all our educational material, tutorials and lectures (in the Learn section).

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en: From symmetry to stability: structural and electronic transformation in Cs₂KInI₆

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en: Materials underpin modern technologies, from energy harvesting, storage, and conversion to information and communication technologies. Their functionality is often governed by the interplay between competing phases, as thermodynamic behavior shapes microscopic properties and ultimately determines technological performance; for instance, the light absorption of inorganic metal-halide perovskites in solar cells. Accurately predicting crystal thermodynamics, however, remains a major challenge for computational approaches because strong anharmonic effects require extensive sampling of the potential energy surface. Here, we present an on-the-fly Bayesian framework, combined with the stochastic self-consistent harmonic approximation, for learning first-principles interatomic potentials. This approach enables the prediction of thermodynamic properties over a broad temperature range with first-principles accuracy while requiring training on only a few tens to a few hundreds of atomic configurations. To demonstrate its power, we investigate the thermodynamic and dynamical properties of Li2O, α-CsPbI3, and δ-CsPbI3, requiring only 44, 256, and 50 total-energy calculations, respectively. Notably, we show that this framework accurately captures the phase diagram of CsPbI3, which explains its spontaneous degradation into the non-absorbing yellow phase, predicting the transition temperature with remarkable accuracy and efficiency. More broadly, the method presented opens a novel route toward accelerated materials engineering under realistic conditions for a wide range of technologically relevant applications, including solid-state batteries, optoelectronic devices, and memristors.

en: Predicting challenging phase transitions with Bayesian active learning

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en: The FAIR principles have transformed how computational materials data and workflows are shared, yet existing repositories can only serve pre-computed entries — their coverage is perpetually incomplete and cannot adapt to new questions on demand. We built OptiMat Alloys, a large-language-model-powered conversational agent for multi-principal element alloy exploration, on three pillars: a living database that stores every calculation with provenance, low-barrier accessibility through a web interface that requires zero programming expertise, and built-in uncertainty quantification via cross-potential and cross-configuration validation. By coupling foundational machine-learning interatomic potentials that span nearly the entire periodic table with natural-language interaction, the agent enables targeted, on-demand computation guided by the user's own domain knowledge — extending FAIR from pre-computed repositories to on-demand knowledge generation, and making computational alloy screening accessible to any materials scientist.

en: OptiMat Alloys: a FAIR, living database of multi-principal element alloys enabled by a conversational agent

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en: Solvent reverse osmosis is a pressure-driven, liquid-phase process for separating solvent mixtures, offering a potential low-energy alternative to thermal operations. Graphene oxide (GO) laminates provide tunable nanochannels to probe confined solvent transport, yet solvent–solvent separations remain underexplored due to solvation-induced structural instabilities and the small molecular sizes. Here we construct solvent-stable, supported GO nanochannel membranes that preserves integrity under pressurized solvents, and tune interlayer confinement and surface polarity via controlled chemical reduction. Across 51 solvent systems and 5 distinct nanochannels, we demonstrate that separation is governed by coupled nanoconfinement and solvent affinity, where selective interfacial association can surpass simple size-exclusion expectations. Maximum permselectivity arises from balancing channel size with retained polarity, indicating that channel shrinking alone does not optimize performance. These findings identify channel surface chemistry as a key design factor for polarity-rich solvent systems and provide a framework for rationally tailoring nanochannels for complex solvent separations.

en: Solvent reverse osmosis beyond size exclusion in 2D nanochannel membranes

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en: Correlated electron molecular orbital (CEMO) materials host emergent electronic states built from molecular orbitals localized over clusters of transition metal ions yet have historically been discovered sporadically and generally been treated as isolated case studies. Here we establish CEMO materials as a systematically discoverable class and introduce a graph-based framework to identify, classify, and organize transition-metal cluster motifs in inorganic solids. Starting from crystal structures in the Materials Project, we construct transition metal connectivity graphs, extract cluster motifs using a bond-cutting algorithm, and determine cluster point groups, effective cluster sublattice dimensionality, and translational symmetry. Applying this approach in a high-throughput screen of 34,548 compounds yields 5,306 cluster-containing materials, including 2,627 stable or metastable compounds with isolated clusters and 984 materials featuring mixed-metal clusters. The resulting dataset reveals symmetry and element dependent trends in cluster formation. By integrating cluster classification with flat band lattice topology and battery-relevant information, we provide further relevant information to multiple scientific communities. The accompanying open dataset, Cluster Finder software, and interactive web platform enable systematic exploration of cluster driven electronic phenomena and establish a general pathway for discovering correlated quantum materials and functional materials with cluster-based or extended metal-metal bonding in inorganic solids.

en: Discovery of correlated electron molecular orbital materials using graph representations

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en: This electrochemical, X-ray diffraction, and operando X-ray abosorption spectroscopy data characterize and decouple the effects of bulk vs. electrolyte Fe incorporation in crystalline, defective crystalline, and amorphous catalysts derived from the same CoSn(OH)₆ precursor. Electrolyte Fe incorporation equalizes the OER activity across all three structural variants, demonstrating that surface Fe chemistry can dominate initial structural effects on the reconstructed catalyst interface.

en: Characteristic data of activation of crystalline and amorphous OER catalysts with bulk and surface Fe incorporation.

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en: AMaRaNTA stands for Automating Magnetic paRAmeters iN a Tensorial ApproachThe aim of the AMaRaNTA package is to implement and automatize the widely used energy-mapping method, namely the 4-state method using density functional theory by removing the laborious, multi-step manual procedures. Based on the AiiDA framework, it extracts full spin-orbit coupling included exchange and anisotropy parameters for 2D magnets. In its current implementation (full workchain publicly available at https://github.com/AMaRaNTA-code), AMaRaNTA returns the nearest-neighbour exchange tensor, complemented by scalar parameters for second- and third-nearest-neighbour exchange interactions as well as single-ion anisotropy.Present repository is to make available the results obtained using this workchain run on a set of 29 materials, a representative subset of the Materials Cloud 2D Structure database.

en: AMaRaNTA: automated first-principles exchange parameters in 2D magnets [Results]

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en: This entry provides the training and test datasets, final datasets, trained models, and simulation results associated with four machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) of liquid water: DeePMD and MACE models trained from scratch via active learning, a fine-tuned MACE foundation model, and a DeePMD potential obtained by knowledge distillation. All input scripts for the active learning and AIMD simulations have been included. Source data for reproducing the figures in the manuscript are provided. Detailed explanations for each subdirectory are provided inside the folder.

en: data-efficient and fast machine learning molecular dynamics through integrated active learning and knowledge distillation

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en: Environment

active-learning

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knowledge-distillation

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en: This repository accompanies the manuscript “ChemFit: A framework for automated high-dimensional model parameter optimization” and contains the source code, input structures, and simulation outputs required to reproduce the examples presented in the study. ChemFit is a Python framework for the definition and massively concurrent evaluation of simulation-based objective functions for use with gradient-free and black-box optimization algorithms.The archive includes snapshots of the source code used in the study together with the corresponding simulation metadata, logfiles, reference structures, and initial configuration files necessary to reproduce the reported optimization workflows and results.

materialscloud

en:
Materials Cloud is a platform built to enable the seamless sharing and dissemination of resources in computational materials science, offering educational, research, and archiving tools; simulation software and services; and curated and raw data. These underpin published results and empower data-based discovery, compliant with data management plans and the FAIR principles.

In the Materials Cloud you can browse, explore, download, or deposit raw and curated data (in the Discover, Explore, and Archive sections); you can access cloud or redeployable simulation services (from AiiDAlab turnkey simulations to the Quantum Mobile virtual machine, the AiiDA registry of plugins and workflows, and the OSSCAR notebooks, in the Work section), and you can use all our educational material, tutorials and lectures (in the Learn section).

en: Materials Cloud

en: Data availability for "ChemFit: a framework for automated high-dimensional model parameter optimization"

biocondensates

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chemfit

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coarse-grained-model

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computational-physics

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water-model

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en:
Deorbitalization of a conventional meta-generalized-gradient exchange-correlation approximation replaces its dependence upon the Kohn-Sham kinetic energy density with a dependence on the density gradient and Laplacian. In principle, that simplification should provide improved computational performance relative to the original meta-GGA form because of the shift from an orbital-dependent generalized Kohn-Sham potential to a true KS local potential. Often that prospective gain is lost because of problematic roughness in the density caused by the density Laplacian and consequent roughness in the exchange-correlation potential from the resulting higher-order spatial derivatives of the density in it. We address the problem by constructing a deorbitalizer based on the RPP deorbitalizer [Phys. Rev. Mater. 6, 083803 (2022)] with comparative smoothness of the potential along with retention of constraint satisfaction as design goals. Applied to the r2SCAN exchange-correlation functional [J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 8208 (2020)], we find substantial timing improvements for solid-state calculations over both r2SCAN and its earlier deorbitalization for high precision calculations of structural properties, while improving upon the accuracy of RPP deorbitalization for both solids and molecules.

Data archive includes data needed to reproduce the figures and tables of this work, and input scripts for test set calculations performed using VASP and NWChem electronic structure codes.

en: Performance improvement of deorbitalized exchange-correlation functionals

computation

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en:
Advanced fission and fusion technologies require materials that withstand extreme conditions, relying on irradiation-tolerant structures to suppress defect evolution and mechanical degradation. This study introduces a novel approach to immobilize irradiation-induced defects by tuning local lattice distortion in concentrated solid solution alloys. Results demonstrate that higher distortion levels significantly reduce microstructural changes. The single-phase Ni80Mo20 alloy, with the highest recorded distortion (4.82% atomic size mismatch), exhibits frozen defect motion and negligible irradiation effects. This suggests engineering lattice distortion as a straightforward method for designing irradiation-resistant metallic alloys.

This dataset provides the initial and final atomic structures from molecular dynamics simulations of single vacancy and single interstitial diffusion in Ni, NiFe, NiCoV, and Ni80Mo20 alloys, each exhibiting distinct levels of lattice distortion.

en: Achieving enhanced irradiation-resistant metallic alloys by immobilizing induced defects

irradiation-damage

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lattice-distortion

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metallic-alloys

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molecular-dynamics

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en:
This dataset contains the data (as well as the code required to generate the data) for the numerical experiments of our manuscript "Quantum Finite Temperature Lanczos Method".

Abstract:

The computation of thermal properties of quantum many-body systems is a central challenge in our understanding of quantum mechanics. We introduce the Quantum Finite Temperature Lanczos Method (QFTLM), which extends the finite-temperature Lanczos method to quantum computers by combining real-time quantum Krylov methods with efficient preparation of typical states for trace estimation. This approach enables the computation of thermal expectation values while avoiding the exponential scaling inherent to classical exact simulation techniques. Numerical experiments on the transverse-field Ising model show that QFTLM can reproduce thermal observables over a wide temperature range. We further analyze the influence of Krylov dimension, number of trace-estimator states, and Trotter error, and show that suitable regularization is essential for robustness in noisy settings. These results establish QFTLM as a promising framework for finite-temperature quantum simulation.

en: Data for manuscript on the quantum finite temperature Lanczos method

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en: We establish a quantitative relation between the altermagnetic spin-splitting and different higher order multipoles of the charge and magnetization density around the magnetic atoms. Magnetic multipoles such as octupoles or triakontadipoles have been suggested as potential ferroic order parameters for d- and g-wave altermagnetism, respectively, based mainly on qualitative symmetry arguments. We use first-principles-based electronic structure calculations to establish a clear quantitative relation between the strength of the altermagnetic spin splitting and the magnitude of certain local multipoles. We vary the magnitude of these multipoles either by applying an appropriate constraint on the charge density or by varying a corresponding structural distortion mode, using two simple perovskite materials, SrCrO₃ and LaVO₃, as model systems. Our analysis indicates that in general the altermagnetic spin splitting is not exclusively determined by the lowest order nonzero magnetic multipole, but results from a superposition of contributions from different multipoles with comparable strength, suggesting the need for a multi-component order parameter to describe altermagnetism. We also discuss different measures to quantify the overall spin-splitting of a material, without relying on features that might be specific to only individual bands.

en: Multipoles as quantitative order parameters for altermagnetic spin splitting

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en: This repository accompanies the manuscript “Optical selection rules in hexagonal Ge polytypes and their lifting by symmetry perturbation” and contains vasprun.xml files of all calculations. The manuscript presents DFT calculations made with VASP of the 2H, 4H and 6H polytypes of Ge and SiGe and discusses their electronic and optical properties. The first part presents transition matrix elements and the radiative lifetimes. The second part presents the dielectric functions and absorptions of the structures from model BSE calculations.

en: Data availability for "Optical selection rules in hexagonal Ge polytypes and their lifting by symmetry perturbation"

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en: Maximally-localized Wannier functions are quantum wavefunctions resembling atomic orbitals that are used to describe electrons in condensed matter. Since their introduction in 1997, these functions have become ubiquitous in ab initio materials simulations, including applications in linear-scaling methods, strongly correlated electron systems, quantum transport, electron-phonon interactions, and topological materials. Despite their widespread adoption in a vast software ecosystem, Wannier functions have not yet attained their fullest potential in the presence of entangled bands, as their optimization remains challenging and labor-intensive. Here, we introduce a universal meta-optimization method that leverages workflow abstraction and machine-learning techniques like differential evolution and Bayesian optimization to generate globally optimized Wannier functions without human intervention. We demonstrate this approach through three applications: (i) autonomous interpolation of entangled band structures with millielectronvolt accuracy starting from coarse Brillouin zone grids, (ii) thousand-fold acceleration of fully ab initio Boltzmann transport calculations via the use of minimal coarse Brillouin zone grids, and (iii) ultrafast high-throughput calculations of high-precision Wannier functions for large materials libraries. This work brings calculations that previously required supercomputers within the reach of personal computers.The data generated in this work and reported in the manuscript is attached in the Data.tar.gz with full description in the Readme.md.

en: Meta-optimization of maximally-localized Wannier functions

machine-learning

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meta-optimization

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wannier-functions

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en: Interatomic potentials remain a critical bottleneck for accurate large-scale atomistic simulations. Machine-learning potentials provide a promising route to overcoming this limitation; however, the construction of property-relevant training datasets remains a major challenge. Here, we propose an active-learning strategy based on property balancing, in which the fraction of atomic environments associated with pre-identified key material properties is dynamically optimized during training. We demonstrate this strategy for pure magnesium, whose macroscopic plastic deformation is governed by several subtle dislocation transformations that place stringent demands on potential accuracy. Using the proposed strategy, we develop a Behler–Parrinello-type neural-network potential that captures these dislocation-mediated mechanisms with a level of accuracy that has been difficult to achieve in previous studies of magnesium. The successful application to magnesium highlights the versatility and effectiveness of property balancing as a general strategy for developing machine-learning potentials for metallic systems with multiple competing property requirements. This approach provides a practical pathway toward predictive mechanistic simulations of structural metals.

en: Property-balancing active learning strategy for machine learning interatomic potentials: case study on dislocation mechanics in magnesium

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en: Environment

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magnesium

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neural-network-potential

display_name: neural-network-potential


en: This dataset provides the computational data supporting the manuscript entitled "Molybdenum Oxidation State Governs Brønsted–Lewis Acid Synergy in Dimethyl Oxalate Transesterification" by Li et al., providing all computational data underlying the reported adsorption behaviors on MoO3(010) and MoO2(011) surfaces. It includes optimized bulk and surface structures, representative CP2K input/output files, and post-processed electron density data, enabling reproducibility of the adsorption energies and electron density difference maps for dimethyl oxalate (DMO) and ethanol. The calculations reveal that DMO adsorbs more strongly on MoO3(010) (−0.9 eV) than on MoO2(011) (−0.7 eV), reflecting more facile Lewis acid activation by the Mo6+-dominated surface. Electron density accumulates between the surface Mo and the carbonyl O atom, while the carbonyl C loses density, indicating polarization of the molecule upon adsorption. Ethanol adsorption shows even more pronounced differences: on MoO3(010), it interacts either with a surface Lewis acidic Mo atom or a Brønsted acidic Mo–OH site, both configurations exhibiting similar adsorption energies of approximately −1.1 eV. Adsorption on the Lewis acid site induces electron accumulation at the Mo–O bond and activation of the hydroxyl H, whereas adsorption on the Brønsted acid site increases the overall electronegativity of ethanol, enhancing its nucleophilicity. In contrast, ethanol binds weakly (−0.1 eV) to MoO2(011) via a hydrogen bond with a surface O atom, with negligible interaction with Mo sites. All data are organized in a comprehensive folder structure covering bulk crystal models, isolated molecules, surface optimizations, and adsorption energy evaluations, with hydroxylated and non-hydroxylated MoO3 surfaces included. Computational settings employ CP2K (GPW) with PBEsol for structural optimizations and BEEF-vdW for energy calculations, along with specified basis sets, k-point sampling, and slab models. The dataset enables verification of all figures and tables in the manuscript and facilitates detailed analysis of Brønsted–Lewis acid synergy in MoOx-catalyzed transesterification.

materialscloud

en:
Materials Cloud is a platform built to enable the seamless sharing and dissemination of resources in computational materials science, offering educational, research, and archiving tools; simulation software and services; and curated and raw data. These underpin published results and empower data-based discovery, compliant with data management plans and the FAIR principles.

In the Materials Cloud you can browse, explore, download, or deposit raw and curated data (in the Discover, Explore, and Archive sections); you can access cloud or redeployable simulation services (from AiiDAlab turnkey simulations to the Quantum Mobile virtual machine, the AiiDA registry of plugins and workflows, and the OSSCAR notebooks, in the Work section), and you can use all our educational material, tutorials and lectures (in the Learn section).

en: Materials Cloud

en: Data for the adsorption properties of dimethyl oxalate and ethanol on the MoO3(010) and MoO2(011) surfaces

adsorption

display_name: adsorption

dimethyl-oxalate

display_name: dimethyl-oxalate

electron-density-difference

display_name: electron-density-difference

moox

display_name: moox


en: Functionalizing Silicon Nanowires (SiNWs) through covalent attachment of organic molecules offers diverse advantages, including surface passivation, introduction of new functionalities, and enhanced material performance in applications like electronic devices and biosensors. Given the wide range of available functional molecules, systematic large-scale screening is crucial. Therefore, we developed an automated computational workflow using Python scripts in conjunction with the AiiDa framework to explore structural configurations of functional molecules adsorbed onto silicon surfaces. This workflow generates multiple adhesion configurations corresponding to different binding orientations using surface and functional molecule structures as inputs. This dataset contains data related to the structural optimization of molecules with single, double, and triple carbon-carbon bonds attached to the nanowire surface in various adhesion configurations. We describe the chemisorption on SiNWs using the slab models for the Si facets since our reference are samples with diameters of SiNWs around 50 nm, while the quantum confinement effects are important for diameters below 10 nm. For each configuration, structural characterization was conducted by calculating quantities including the bond distance between the two carbons closest to the surface and their respective bond angle relative to the z-axis, the carbon-silicon bond distance and its respective bond angle relative to the z-axis, along with the molecule's rotation angle in the xy plane. The values obtained are summarized in the main folder. The version v1 of dataset contains data related to the Si(111) surface and alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes with lengths from C2 to C10. The version v2 and v3 include also the moieties from C12 to C18. The version v4 extends the dataset with the data related to the Si(110) surface and alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes with lengths from C2 to C18. The version v5 also includes the optimized structures of SiNWs oriented along ⟨112⟩, exposing Si(110) and Si(111) facets, and featuring three different sizes: small (d = 0.7 nm), medium (d = 1.7 nm), and large (d = 2.6 nm). In this version (v6) the relaxation calculations for all the considered moieties are provided. For each system the most stable configuration is identified, and the analysis of the electronic properties is conducted in the listed references.

en: Density functional theory study of silicon nanowire surfaces functionalized by grafting organic molecules

aliphatic-molecules

display_name: aliphatic-molecules

dft

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nanowires

display_name: nanowires

silicon

display_name: silicon

surface-adsorption

display_name: surface-adsorption


en:
Semilocal density functionals such as the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) functional notoriously underestimate experimental band gaps. Hybrid functionals address this “band gap problem” by admixing a fraction of Fock exchange to semilocal exchange. The optimal mixing parameter depends on the specific material and can be identified as the inverse dielectric constant (dielectric-dependent hybrid functional, DDH). Here, we show that dielectric constants obtained using the r²SCAN meta-GGA functional are significantly more accurate than dielectric constants obtained using the semilocal PBE functional. We propose the DD-r²SCANH functional, a dielectric-dependent hybrid functional based on r²SCAN. DD-r²SCANH can outperform the standard PBE-based DDH in terms of band gaps and other electronic structure properties. Particularly impressive improvements are obtained for narrow-gap semiconductors such as Ge and InAs, where PBE wrongly predicts a metallic phase, but r²SCAN opens a band gap.

Here, we provide VASP input files for DD-r²SCANH, and further we provide the crystal structures used for our band gap benchmark in POSCAR format.

en: Dielectric-dependent hybrid functional from meta-GGA

density-functional-theory

display_name: density-functional-theory

electronic-bands

display_name: electronic-bands

electronic-structure

display_name: electronic-structure


en:
This dataset supports a computational study of finite-concentration pair breaking in Mn- and Co-doped 2H-NbSe2 using the coherent potential approximation combined with Bogoliubov-de Gennes calculations within the KKR Green-function framework. The work investigates how magnetic impurities located on the van der Waals empty-sphere site modify the superconducting anomalous density of 2H-NbSe2 from the dilute impurity limit up to the critical concentration where superconductivity collapses.

The dataset contains the full AiiDA provenance needed to reproduce the calculations reported in the companion manuscript. It includes the pristine superconducting 2H-NbSe2 reference calculation, normal-state CPA KKR calculations for Mn and Co impurities, and self-consistent CPA-BdG concentration series for both dopants. These data reproduce the concentration-dependent normalized anomalous density, the impurity-dependent critical concentrations, and the comparison between Mn- and Co-induced changes in the superconducting response.

All calculations were performed with the JuKKR Green-function code through the AiiDA-KKR workflow infrastructure on the JURECA-DC supercomputer at Forschungszentrum Jülich, with additional computational resources from CLAIX at RWTH Aachen University. The record is intended to provide transparent access to the computational provenance, input and output data, and analysis workflow underlying the reported CPA-BdG results.

en: CPA-BdG calculations for Mn- and Co-doped 2H-NbSe2: finite-concentration pair breaking and anomalous density

aiida

display_name: aiida

anomalous-density

display_name: anomalous-density

bogoliubov-de-gennes-bdg

display_name: bogoliubov-de-gennes-bdg

co

display_name: co

coherent-potential-approximation-cpa

display_name: coherent-potential-approximation-cpa

kkr-green-function-method

display_name: kkr-green-function-method

magnetic-impurities

display_name: magnetic-impurities

mn

display_name: mn

pair-breaking

display_name: pair-breaking

spin-orbit-coupling

display_name: spin-orbit-coupling

superconductivity

display_name: superconductivity

transition-metal-dichalcogenide

display_name: transition-metal-dichalcogenide

yu-shiba-rusinov-states

display_name: yu-shiba-rusinov-states


en: Topological constraints such as the Bernal-Fowler ice rules govern atomic arrangements in proton-disordered crystals. Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) provide a computationally efficient route to exploring such disordered energy landscapes using on-the-fly sampling without explicit topological supervision. Whether such a data-driven approach can autonomously recover ice-rule constraints remains an open question. Here, we show that a data-efficient GAP-SOAP force field trained on 212 DFT calculations achieves a energy RMSE of 19 meV/H2O on Ice VII configurations and reproduces phonon dispersions and infrared spectra in good agreement with DFT. A representative trained model relaxes 8 × 8 × 8 supercells (3072 atoms) with randomized proton orientations into structures consistent with ice-rule constraints, recovering a body-centred cubic oxygen lattice at 30 GPa. Under compression, the model captures the qualitative features of the Ice VII → Ice X transformation and remains stable over the 30–90 GPa range for the tested configurations. While extended training does not guarantee monotonic improvement in all properties, the model enables efficient large-scale molecular dynamics, reaching approximately one frame per second on a single CPU core. These results demonstrate that local environment descriptors can encode key aspects of hydrogen-bond topology, providing a data-efficient route to structural relaxation in disordered molecular crystals.

en: Emergence of Bernal-Fowler ice rules in crystal structure prediction via data-efficient machine learning force fields: the case of Ice VII

active-learning

display_name: active-learning

crystal-structure-prediction

display_name: crystal-structure-prediction

high-pressure-ice

display_name: high-pressure-ice

ice-rules

display_name: ice-rules

ice-vii

display_name: ice-vii

machine-learning-force-fields

display_name: machine-learning-force-fields


en: Generative artificial-intelligence (AI) models, such as score-based diffusion models, have recently advanced the field of computational materials science by enabling the generation of new materials with desired properties. In addition, these models could also be leveraged to reconstruct crystal structures for which partial information is available. One relevant example is the reliable determination of atomic positions occupied by hydrogen atoms in hydrogen-containing crystalline materials. While crucial to the analysis and prediction of many materials properties, the identification of hydrogen positions via X-ray scattering experiments has been historically challenging, and often requires more expensive neutron scattering measurements. As a consequence, and despite experimental advances which enable us nowadays to accurately determine hydrogen positions based on X-ray scattering experiments, inorganic crystallographic databases still report many lattice structures where hydrogen atoms have been either omitted or inserted with heuristics or by chemical intuition. Here, we combine diffusion models from the field of materials science with techniques originally developed in computer vision for image inpainting. We present how this knowledge transfer across domains enables a much faster and more accurate completion of host structures, compared to unconditioned diffusion models or previous approaches solely based on density-functional theory (DFT). Overall, when applied to a test dataset of hydrogen-containing materials from the MC3D database, our approach exceeds a success rate of 97% in terms of finding a structural match or predicting a more stable configuration (according to DFT) than the initial reference from the experimental source database (and with a success rate exceeding 99% when excluding structures flagged as theoretical in MC3D), both when starting from structures that were already relaxed with DFT, or when starting directly from the experimentally determined host structures.

en: Score-based diffusion models for accurate crystal-structure inpainting and reconstruction of hydrogen positions

aiida

display_name: aiida

dft

display_name: dft

generative-ai

display_name: generative-ai

machine-learning

display_name: machine-learning

mlip

display_name: mlip


en: Hydrogen carriers that enable efficient transport and on-demand release of molecular hydrogen (H2) are crucial for practical hydrogen-based energy systems. Hydrogen boride (HB) nanosheets, composed of boron and hydrogen in a 1:1 stoichiometric ratio, have promising potential as safe and lightweight hydrogen carriers owing to their high gravimetric hydrogen density (8.5 wt %). In particular, heating of HB nanosheets results in H2 release over a broad temperature range from 423 to 1473 K. However, the mechanism of the multimodal H₂ desorption remains unclear. In this work, we elucidate that the interlayer H···H distances (dH···H) determine the multimodal desorption of H2 especially in the lower-temperature range (< 623 K). HB nanosheets subjected to various temperatures under different H2 pressures were prepared to investigate the thermal stability of their bonding configurations. Infrared spectroscopy and temperature-programmed desorption measurements revealed the occurrence of hydrogen depletion while the bonding configuration remains unchanged. The first to third nearest dH···H, along with the numbers of the corresponding H···H pairs, were systematically calculated for four possible interlayer stacking types. The calculated H···H pairs distribution closely matched the experimental profile for the thermally induced H2 desorption, suggesting that the multimodal desorption of H2 in the lower-temperature range is governed by the distribution of hydrogen distances. This study elucidates the unique mechanisms of H2 formation in HB nanosheets and provides valuable insights into the design of two-dimensional hydrogen containing materials.

en: Interlayer hydrogen-hydrogen spacing regulates the formation of molecular hydrogen in hydrogen boride nanosheets

hydrogen-boride-nanosheet

display_name: hydrogen-boride-nanosheet

hydrogen-release

display_name: hydrogen-release

interlayer-space

display_name: interlayer-space

two-dimensional-materials

display_name: two-dimensional-materials


en: Van der Waals (vdW) interactions play a crucial role in the formation of various systems. Two-dimensional (2D) metals have attracted considerable attention due to their unique properties, particularly in applications where vdW interactions play a significant role.  In particular, a graphene template facilitates the self-assembly of 2D metal nanosheets. A study of vdW interactions between copperene and graphene has been carried out. The behavior of the binding energy of copperene/graphene is studied within the framework of DFT-D3.Collection of data, input and output files. Calculations were performed using Quantum ESPRESSO.

en: Long-range van der Waals forces between graphene and copperene: first principles calculations

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en: Environment

input-files

display_name: input-files

output-files

display_name: output-files

quantum-espresso

display_name: quantum-espresso


en:
Accurately parameterizing the screened Coulomb interaction U is essential for predictive density-functional theory extensions, such as DFT+U and DFT plus dynamical mean-field theory (DFT+DMFT), which model strongly correlated electron systems. This dataset provides the comprehensive computational records for a systematic study mapping the physical equivalence between the two primary first-principles methods for determining this parameter: linear response theory (LRT) and the constrained random-phase approximation (cRPA). Using a unified framework of maximally localized Wannier functions applied to four prototypical transition-metal systems (CrO2, KCuF3, NiO, and Sr2FeO4), the work compares systematically the two methods for determining the U value.

To support the verification and extension of these physical insights, the repository contains the complete input and output files for the underlying quantum mechanical simulations. This includes cRPA calculations partitioned into distinct target orbital configurations, spanning d-only, d+p, and frontier Wannier subspaces, alongside LRT datasets computed both with and without exchange-correlation effects. The entire execution pipeline is preserved through shell scripts that document the automated workflows.

materialscloud

en:
Materials Cloud is a platform built to enable the seamless sharing and dissemination of resources in computational materials science, offering educational, research, and archiving tools; simulation software and services; and curated and raw data. These underpin published results and empower data-based discovery, compliant with data management plans and the FAIR principles.

In the Materials Cloud you can browse, explore, download, or deposit raw and curated data (in the Discover, Explore, and Archive sections); you can access cloud or redeployable simulation services (from AiiDAlab turnkey simulations to the Quantum Mobile virtual machine, the AiiDA registry of plugins and workflows, and the OSSCAR notebooks, in the Work section), and you can use all our educational material, tutorials and lectures (in the Learn section).

en: Materials Cloud

en: Bridging constrained random-phase approximation and linear response theory for computing Hubbard parameters

dftu

display_name: dftu

linear-response

display_name: linear-response

wannier-functions

display_name: wannier-functions


en: Spin Hall effect (SHE) in two-dimensional (2D) materials is promising to effectively manipulate spin angular momentum and identify topological properties. In this work, we implemented an automated Wannierization with spin-orbit coupling on 426 non-magnetic monolayers including 210 metal and 216 insulators. Intrinsic spin Hall conductivity (SHC) has been calculated to find candidates exhibiting novel properties. We discover that Y₂C₂I₂ has an unconventional SHE with canted spin due to low crystal symmetry, Ta₄Se₂ is a metallic monolayer with exceptionally high SHC, and the semi-metal Y₂Br₂ possesses efficient charge-to-spin conversion induced by anti-crossing in bands. Moreover, quantum spin Hall insulators are investigated for quantized SHC. The present work provides a high-quality Wannier Hamiltonian database of 2D materials, and paves the way for the integration of 2D materials into high-performance and low-power-consumption spintronic devices.

en: High-throughput calculations of spin Hall conductivity in non-magnetic 2D materials

spin-hall-effect

display_name: spin-hall-effect


en: Predicting quasiparticle energies in materials requires expensive numerical evaluations of the electron self-energy. This limits calculations to ordered systems with small unit cells. Here, using symbolic regression, we show that the GW self-energy can be accurately approximated with compact analytical functions of physically motivated Kohn-Sham descriptors. These expressions can be learned from a single GW calculation in the ordered phase and remain accurate under symmetry breaking induced by quantum and thermal fluctuations, elastic deformations, and amorphous disorder. This development enables routine GW calculations of complex materials with thousands of atoms at a computational cost comparable to semi-local density functional theory. We demonstrate the accuracy of this approach for covalent semiconductors, ionic insulators, and two-dimensional materials. These results establish symbolic regression as a viable route to predictive, interpretable, and transferable many-body electronic structure models.

en: Electron correlation in semiconductors and insulators via symbolic regression

electronic-structure

display_name: electronic-structure

equation-discovery

display_name: equation-discovery

gw

display_name: gw

many-body-perturbation-theory

display_name: many-body-perturbation-theory

symbolic-regression

display_name: symbolic-regression


en: In the field of orthopedic biomechanics, synthetic bone surrogates are essential for evaluating surgical techniques, implant stability, and fracture risks due to their reproducible geometry and consistent mechanical behavior compared to human cadaveric tissue. Fourth-generation (4th Gen) Sawbones(R) composite models, which utilize a short fiber-filled epoxy (SFFE) cortical shell and a polyurethane foam (PUF) cancellous core, represent the industry standard. However, a significant gap remains in the literature regarding the full anisotropic characterization of these individual constituents, which is critical for high-fidelity numerical simulations. This study presents a comprehensive experimental dataset covering uniaxial tension (ASTM D638), compression (ASTM D695), and fracture toughness (ASTM E399) tests, alongside specialized shear characterization using a modified Single Cube Apparatus (SCA). The dataset includes 93 successful mechanical tests: 56 for the SFFE cortical surrogate and 37 for the PUF cancellous surrogate. The results validate the transverse isotropy of the SFFE and the isotropic behavior of the PUF. These findings provide the required mechanical properties for accurate finite element studies, facilitating the rigorous validation of synthetic bone surrogates as representations of biological human tissue.

en: Dataset for characterization of fracture and elastic properties of commercially available polyurethane foam and short fiber filled epoxy for bone models

anisotropy

display_name: anisotropy

bone-substitutes

display_name: bone-substitutes

characterization

display_name: characterization

experimental

display_name: experimental

fracture-toughness

display_name: fracture-toughness

sawbones

display_name: sawbones


en: IZ-DPscreen is a hybrid machine learning framework developed for the high-throughput screening of double perovskites. It employs a stacking regressor approach to accurately predict key material properties, including band gap, formation energy, and thermodynamic stability. By integrating multiple learning algorithms, the model enhances prediction reliability and robustness. The performance of IZ-DPscreen is validated through benchmarking against both theoretical (DFT) and available experimental data, demonstrating its capability for reliable materials screening. This approach enables the rapid identification of thermodynamically stable double perovskites with optimal band gaps, thereby accelerating the discovery of promising candidates for optoelectronic and energy applications.

en: A hybrid machine learning approach for high-throughput screening of thermodynamically stable double perovskites with optimal band gap

band-gap

display_name: band-gap

double-perovskite

display_name: double-perovskite

high-throughput-screening

display_name: high-throughput-screening

machine-learning

display_name: machine-learning

thermodynamic-stability

display_name: thermodynamic-stability


en: Rutile Sn1−x Gex O2 alloys are promising materials for high-power electronic applications due to their dopability and tunable ultra-wide band gaps. We use first-principles density functional theory and statistical mechanics to investigate the crystallographic, electronic, and thermodynamic properties of rutile Sn1−x Gex O2 alloys. We predict that the lattice parameters follow Vegard’s law, while band gaps calculated with the hybrid HSE06 functional exhibit strong bowing, consistent with experiment. We also predict that the disordered phase has a large positive mixing enthalpy and a slight tendency for Ge–Sn clustering, indicated by weakly negative short-range order parameters. This large positive mixing enthalpy produces a miscibility gap with a critical temperature above 2300 K, implying that the high Ge and Sn solubilities observed in thin-film synthesis cannot be explained by the incoherent phase diagram alone. We demonstrate that coherency strain substantially alters phase stability. Calculations of the coherent spinodal show significant suppression of the miscibility gap, reducing the critical temperature to ≈ 900 K. These coherent phase boundaries could account for the experimentally observed high solubilities at typical growth temperatures. Our results indicate that coherency strain stabilizes these metastable alloys and enables bandgap engineering in this ultrawide-bandgap material system.

en: Thermodynamic and electronic properties of rutile Sn1−x Gex O2 alloys from first principles

classical-statistical-mechanics

display_name: classical-statistical-mechanics

thermodynamics-of-mixing

display_name: thermodynamics-of-mixing


en: Nanoscale twin boundaries (TBs) effectively restrict the free motion of dislocations by intersecting with other TBs to realize high strength. However, the dislocations parallel to the TBs can glide along the TBs, resulting in detwinning for low strength. Herein, we present a triple-interlocked-nanotwinned (TIT) strategy for overcoming these inherent deficiencies. An Mg-9Li alloy was used as a proof-of-concept. The treated alloy had a large volume fraction of TIT interfaces (65.7%). It not only had a high yield strength of 508.6 MPa (approximately eleven times higher than that of the TIT-free sample) but also offered unprecedented ageing resistance, with a reduction in hardness of 6% after 730 days. The martensite-like phase transformation process concurrently triggers multiple-variant twins to form TIT structures. These TIT nets can effectively prohibit dislocation motion, reduce strengthening anisotropy, and disperse localized stress during the deformation process. This strategy of phase transformation twinning open a gate to fabricate other stronger metallic or ceramic nanotwinned bulk materials.

en: Triple-interlocked-nanotwinned bulk magnesium alloys with exceptional strength and ageing resistance

ageing-resistance

display_name: ageing-resistance

magnesium-alloys

display_name: magnesium-alloys

strength

display_name: strength

triple-interlocked-nanotwin

display_name: triple-interlocked-nanotwin


en: We introduce P3MaZe, a real-space particle–mesh electrostatic method that combines the standard short-range/long-range decomposition of Particle-Particle Particle-Mesh (P3M) electrostatics with the Mass-Zero constrained dynamics (MaZe) framework. In this formulation, the smooth long-range electrostatic potential is represented on a mesh as a zero-inertia auxiliary field, while the discretized Poisson equation is enforced as a holonomic constraint during molecular dynamics. By retaining the standard P3M decomposition, P3MaZe preserves the systematic accuracy controls associated with the real-space cutoff, the Ewald splitting, the mesh spacing, and the charge assignment procedure, while replacing the conventional multigrid Poisson solver by a constrained correction problem. The method is validated for molten NaCl and simple point-charge flexible water (SPC/Fw). Structural, translational, collective, and rotational dynamical observables are in quantitative agreement with those obtained with established electrostatic methods, including real-space P3M, and Ewald summation. The constrained formulation consistently requires fewer multigrid iterations than the corresponding real-space P3M solver while retaining the expected linear scaling with system size. These results establish P3MaZe as a promising new direction for scalable real-space electrostatics in large-scale molecular simulations.

en: P3MaZe: a Mass-Zero constrained-dynamics formulation of particle–mesh electrostatics

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en: Environment

constrained-dynamics

display_name: constrained-dynamics

electrostatic-interactions

display_name: electrostatic-interactions

long-range-interactions

display_name: long-range-interactions

molecular-dynamics

display_name: molecular-dynamics


en: This dataset supports the theoretical investigation reported in the manuscript "Exceptionally high carrier mobility in hexagonal diamond". Based on first-principles analyses of the electronic structures, carrier mobilities, and electron-phonon coupling mechanisms in both cubic diamond and hexagonal diamond, this work demonstrates high carrier mobility in the heaxagonal phase and elucidates its physical origins. The dataset includes relevant data files for geometry optimisation, phonon dispersion, dynamical quadrupole tensors, G0W0 quasiparticle bands, and carrier mobility calculations.

materialscloud

en:
Materials Cloud is a platform built to enable the seamless sharing and dissemination of resources in computational materials science, offering educational, research, and archiving tools; simulation software and services; and curated and raw data. These underpin published results and empower data-based discovery, compliant with data management plans and the FAIR principles.

In the Materials Cloud you can browse, explore, download, or deposit raw and curated data (in the Discover, Explore, and Archive sections); you can access cloud or redeployable simulation services (from AiiDAlab turnkey simulations to the Quantum Mobile virtual machine, the AiiDA registry of plugins and workflows, and the OSSCAR notebooks, in the Work section), and you can use all our educational material, tutorials and lectures (in the Learn section).

en: Materials Cloud

carrier-mobility

display_name: carrier-mobility

electron-phonon-coupling

display_name: electron-phonon-coupling

hexagonal-diamond

display_name: hexagonal-diamond


en: We perform a first-principles high-throughput screening of the mechanical properties of phonon-mediated superconductors derived from the recent experimentally synthesized superconducting materials database PRX Energy \textbf{4}, 033012 (2025). We develop the aiida-mechanical workflow which combines first-principles calculations of elastic constants and generalized stacking fault energies, to assess the ductility of superconducting candidates. Starting from 250 materials identified with promising superconducting critical temperatures, we computed their elastic tensors to evaluate the bulk modulus, shear modulus, Pugh's ratio, and Pettifor's ratio. To further characterize their plastic deformation behavior, we calculated the stacking fault energy and surface energy for selected materials and slip directions, allowing the estimation of Rice's ratio and related ductility indicators. We find that several new materials simultaneously exhibit high Tc and ductility, including HfPd2Al, TiRuSb, and ZrNi2Ga. This dataset provides the complete computational provenance. Specifically, it contains the fully relaxed crystal structures, Quantum ESPRESSO calculations for all elastic tensor (finite-displacement and Born approximation methodologies) and stacking fault energy workflows, as well as k-point and supercell convergence tests. This work offers a quantitative mapping of mechanical performance across a wide range of superconductors and provides a valuable reference for finding new practical superconducting materials.

en: In search of novel ductile superconductors

ductility

display_name: ductility

elastic-tensor

display_name: elastic-tensor

generalized-stacking-fault-energy

display_name: generalized-stacking-fault-energy

pettifors-ratio

display_name: pettifors-ratio

pughs-ratio

display_name: pughs-ratio

rices-ratio

display_name: rices-ratio

superconductor

display_name: superconductor

surface-energy

display_name: surface-energy


en: The favourable thermodynamic properties of magnesium make it a promising negative electrode for rechargeable Mg-metal batteries. However, parasitic side reactions and uncontrolled deposition at the unstable electrode/electrolyte interface severely hinder reversible electrodeposition. Here we demonstrate that a high density of twin defects via cyclic-multidirectional deformation markedly increases the diffusion rate and simultaneously suppresses interfacial reactions. Comprehensive morphological characterisation combined with theoretical calculations reveals that the twinned-magnesium negative electrode exhibits significantly enhanced kinetics, leading to a reduced dimensionless electrochemical Damköhler number and indicating that magnesium deposition becomes less diffusion-limited.Furthermore, reorganisation energy analysis based on Marcus–Hush–Chidsey kinetics, in conjunction with the battery overpotential, indicates that the twin structure effectively mitigates parasitic reactions between the negative electrode and the electrolyte, thereby significantly reducing the passivation effect and enabling long-term reversible magnesium electrodeposition. Consequently, the designed twinned-magnesium electrodes in an asymmetric coin cell paradigm achieve a Coulombic efficiency of 99.53% over 2000 cycles at 30 mA cm-2 with a capacity of 2 mAh cm-2, competitive with reported magnesium metal negative electrodes. This simple strategy has been successfully extended to the zinc metal system as a proof of concept, demonstrating the universal potential of twin engineering for achieving reversible metal electrodeposition.

en: Twinned-magnesium metal negative electrodes enable reversible magnesium electrodeposition

interface-passivation

display_name: interface-passivation

magnesium-electrodeposition

display_name: magnesium-electrodeposition

magnesium-metal-negative-electrodes

display_name: magnesium-metal-negative-electrodes

twinning

display_name: twinning


en: The quality, consistency, and information content of training data is often what determines the practical value of machine-learning models for atomistic simulations. Yet, many widely used electronic-structure databases are assembled having materials screening as primary goal rather than robust force-field learning, are limited in their scope to a specific class of chemical compounds, and/or employ inconsistent DFT functionals and settings. Here we introduce MAD-1.5, a highly curated dataset designed explicitly for training broadly applicable atomistic models across the periodic table at high levels of theory. MAD-1.5 extends the MAD dataset with targeted enrichment strategies that improve the coverage of chemical space to 102 elements while keeping the total number of configurations compact. All structures are computed with a single, standardized all-electron DFT workflow using the r2SCAN meta-GGA functional and consistent convergence settings, ensuring uniformity across chemically heterogeneous systems. The dataset encompasses molecules, clusters, bulk crystals, surfaces, and low-dimensional structures, and its quality and consistency are further enhanced by outlier removal using uncertainty quantification. We demonstrate the high accuracy that can be achieved with the proposed dataset by training PET-MAD-1.5, a generally applicable r2SCAN interatomic potential that covers 102 elements in the periodic table and achieves exceptional levels of benchmark accuracy and stability in challenging simulation protocols.

en: High-quality, high-information datasets for universal atomistic machine learning

atomistic-simulations

display_name: atomistic-simulations

dataset

display_name: dataset

density-functional-theory

display_name: density-functional-theory

interatomic-potentials

display_name: interatomic-potentials

machine-learning

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universal-models

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en: Dynamical control of the optical nonlinear properties in solids – with light itself – will be essential for the development of ultrafast photonic technologies, including high-speed terahertz-rate data communication and advanced signal processing. Previously, methods for optically modulating nonlinear optical processes, such as second harmonic generation (SHG), have relied predominantly on non-resonant light-matter interaction or photo-generation of hot electrons in nanoscale materials. However, these approaches are typically constrained by limited interaction lengths and the initial frequency conversion is relatively weak under equilibrium conditions, making them impractical for devices that require high-contrast switching of strong signals. Here, modulation of a strong SHG signal in a bulk β-BaB2O4 (BBO) nonlinear optical crystal is achieved through resonant transient lattice deformation induced by intense terahertz (THz) pulses tuned to a specific infrared-active phonon mode. Selective lattice excitation results in an unprecedented ~30% modulation of the SHG in BBO. In contrast to past efforts employing non-resonant THz interaction, this effect cannot be explained by modulation of the nonlinear susceptibility – a 𝜒(3)-effect. But rather – through polarization-resolved measurements, ab initio calculations, and analytical modelling –the SHG modulation is found to be driven by THz-induced phonon dynamics that affect the nonlinear optical phase-matching conditions through a 𝜒(2) process. This resonant all-optical control mechanism points toward new optical control schemes, based on selected lattice degrees of freedom, to dynamically tune the overall nonlinear optical response in bulk materials. Such schemes may find practical applications in ultrafast optoelectronics and integrated photonics.

en: All-optical control of second-harmonic generation in β-BaB2O4 via coherent, terahertz-driven acentric lattice displacement

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nonlinear-optical-phase-matching

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nonlinear-susceptibility

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resonant-lattice-dynamics

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second-harmonic-generation

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terahertz-phonon-excitation

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en: The Shastry-Sutherland compound SrCu2(BO3)2 (SCBO) is a paradigmatic low-dimensional quantum spin system, featuring geometrically frustrated interacting spin dimers and a rich landscape of emergent quantum phenomena. While its magnetic properties have been extensively explored, the nature of its electronic excitations - particularly the Cu2+ d–d transitions - remains poorly understood. A detailed characterization of these excitations is essential to determine the crystal field splitting and the degree of Cu 3d–O 2p hybridization, both of which underpin superexchange interactions and magnetic behavior in SCBO. Here, the electronic properties of SCBO are investigated by combining spectroscopic techniques with theoretical approaches for first-principles band structure calculations.Experimentally, we employ L3-edge resonant inelastic x‑ray scattering (RIXS) to directly probe intra-d excitations, supplemented by broadband infrared reflectivity and ellipsometry measurements to resolve charge-transfer (CT) features. Theoretically, multireference quantum chemistry calculations accurately reproduce the energies (1.8–2.4 eV) and symmetries of the observed d–d excitations, while band-structure calculations based on density functional theory elucidate the CT excitation spectrum. These combined approaches define the energy scales for both d–d and CT transitions, validate the computational framework, and provide quantitative microscopic parameters essential for refining superexchange-based magnetic models in this prototypical frustrated quantum antiferromagnet.

en: Probing high-energy electronic excitations in the Shastry-Sutherland compound SrCu2(BO3)2 with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering and optical spectroscopy

d-d-excitations

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dftu

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resonant-inelastic-x-ray-scattering

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shastry-sutherland-model

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en: We developed a machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) for Ge-rich GeSbTe alloys of interest for applications in phase change memories embedded in microcontrollers. The MLIP was generated by fitting with a neural network method a large database of energies and forces computed within density functional theory of elemental, binary, stoichiometric and non-stoichiometric ternary alloys in the Ge-Sb-Te phase diagram. The MLIP is demonstrated to be highly transferable to large regions of the phase diagram around the compositions included in the dataset. The MLIP is then exploited to simulate the crystallization with phase separation of three Ge-rich alloys on the Ge-SbTe and Ge- GeSbTe tie-lines that correspond to the set process of the memory cell. The transformation on the ns time scale and at 600 K, comparable to the operation conditions of the memory, yields crystalline cubic GeTe slightly Sb-doped and amorphous GeSb and Ge. These metastable phases differ from the thermodynamically stable products and form due to kinetics effects on the short time span of the set operation in phase change memories.

en: On phase separation and crystallization of Ge-rich GeSbTe alloys from atomistic simulations with a machine learning interatomic potential

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interatomic-potential

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en: Contact variability remains a major obstacle for scaled two-dimensional transistors, but the extent to which contact geometry can control defect sensitivity remains unclear. This dataset supports a first-principles comparison of top and recessed Ti-MoS2 contacts under a common ordered sulfur-vacancy sequence. The deposited data include VASP POSCAR-format atomic structures generated from NanoDCAL device geometries, the corresponding NanoDCAL SCF input files used as structure sources, and processed metadata tables documenting vacancy coordinates, contact geometries, convergence status and Schottky-barrier-height extraction. These data support the manuscript conclusion that recessed Ti contacts strongly reduce vacancy-position-dependent carrier-injection-barrier variation in MoS2 relative to conventional top contacts.

en: Defect-tolerant carrier injection in MoS2 enabled by recessed Ti contacts

recessed-contact

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schottky-barrier

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en: We present an efficient first-principles approach for simulating the nonequilibrium electron dynamic in extended systems beyond the linear regime. The method combines Koopmans-compliant functionals, which provide an accurate description of quasiparticle band structures, with the real-time evolution of the electronic density matrix in a Wannier basis within the Hartree plus screened exchange (HSEX) approximation. The locality of the orbital basis enables physically justified approximations that significantly reduce the computational and memory scaling of the method while preserving accuracy. We benchmark the approach in the linear regime against experimental spectra and reference GW-BSE calculations for systems featuring both weakly and strongly bound excitons. Moving to the nonlinear regime, we investigate high-harmonic generation (HHG) in silicon and lithium fluoride. While in silicon the HHG spectrum is largely governed by the quasi-particle band structure, we find that in materials featuring strong excitonic effect such as LiF the harmonic emission is selectively enhanced at excitonic resonances, suggesting that HHG probes correlated electron-hole excitations rather than solely the quasiparticle band structure. The present framework enables fully ab initio simulations of excitonic effects in nonlinear optical spectra at a significantly reduced computational cost compared to real-time many-body approaches, providing an efficient route to the study of ultrafast and strong-field phenomena in solids.

en: Efficient nonequilibrium electron dynamics from first-principles: leveraging Koopmans spectral functionals and Wannier localization

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ab-initio

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electron-dynamics

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high-harmonic-generation

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koopmans-functionals

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nonequilibirum

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optical-absorption

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real-time-dynamics

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en: Nonbenzenoid carbocyclic rings are postulated to serve as important structural elements toward tuning the chemical and electronic properties of extended polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs, or namely nanographenes), necessitating a rational and atomically precise synthetic approach toward their fabrication. This record contains data supporting a recent work where, using a combined bottom-up in-solution and on-surface synthetic approach, we report the synthesis of nonbenzenoid open-shell nanographenes containing two pairs of embedded pentagonal and heptagonal rings.

materialscloud

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Materials Cloud is a platform built to enable the seamless sharing and dissemination of resources in computational materials science, offering educational, research, and archiving tools; simulation software and services; and curated and raw data. These underpin published results and empower data-based discovery, compliant with data management plans and the FAIR principles.

In the Materials Cloud you can browse, explore, download, or deposit raw and curated data (in the Discover, Explore, and Archive sections); you can access cloud or redeployable simulation services (from AiiDAlab turnkey simulations to the Quantum Mobile virtual machine, the AiiDA registry of plugins and workflows, and the OSSCAR notebooks, in the Work section), and you can use all our educational material, tutorials and lectures (in the Learn section).

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en: Open-shell Non-benzenoid Nanographenes Containing Two Pairs of Pentagonal and Heptagonal Rings

nanographene

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on-surface-synthesis

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polycyclic-aromatic-hydrocarbons

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scanning-tunneling-microscopy

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en: The upgrade of the 3rd generation synchrotrons to diffraction-limited storage rings will enable a gain of up to two orders of magnitude in brilliance and further enable the creation of multiple macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamlines capable of delivering fluxes in excess of 1x10^15 photons·s−1; here called extremely high flux (EHF) MX beamlines. These beamlines, such as ID29, ESRF-EBS, BioCARS, APS-U, and MicroMAX, MAX IV, have all either been partly or solely geared toward delivering time-resolved MX experiments at room temperature and realising microsecond time resolutions. Given the uncharted territory of using dose rates in excess of 50 GGy·s−1 at many facilities, this article has examined some of the expected consequences suggesting that considerable attention should be paid to beam heating effects for < 20 μm crystals exposed to 1x10^15 photons·s−1. Several strategies have been proposed to mitigate heating effects when high dose rates are required for a time-resolved experiment, including reducing the absorbed dose by increasing the size of the crystal and the beam profile and explicitly exploiting the motion of the crystal in serial crystallography delivery systems. The model presented here is intended to serve as a useful tool to inform experimental design and support users’ decision-making in such cases.

en: The PSI Data Catalog is the central repository directory for scientific metadata generated at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). Powered by SciCat—a community-driven, open-source metadata management framework co-developed by PSI—the catalog provides discoverability and standardized access pathways to petabyte-scale datasets produced across PSI’s large-scale research facilities, including the Swiss Light Source (SLS), the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source (SINQ), and the SwissFEL X-ray free-electron laser.

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en: Modelling of radiation damage and beam induced crystal heating of room-temperature samples at extremely high flux MX beamlines for time-resolved crystallography applications

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CryoEM dataset of Apoferritin collected on a FEI Titan Krios G4 microscope equipped with a Falcon 4i detector.
First public dataset of the OpenEM project. For more information on the project: https://swissopenem.github.io

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en: Energy flows among coupled subsystems are essential for ultrafast dynamics and high-speed technologies. In magnetic materials, spin fluctuations -magnons- mediate these flows in ultrafast magnetism. Yet momentum-resolved access to low-energy magnons governing the microscopic dynamics has been lacking. Using time-resolved resonant diffuse scattering alongside complementary time-resolved X-ray techniques and quantum-kinetic simulations, we unveil the hierarchical energy pathways among correlated systems in the photoexcited antiferromagnet CuO. Above-bandgap excitation triggers near-instantaneous spin disorder, generating non-thermal magnons throughout reciprocal space within femtoseconds. Real-time momentum-resolved tracking reveals picosecond magnon quasi-thermalization, followed by nanosecond recovery via momentum-selective magnon-phonon scattering. The quasiparticle dispersion mismatch creates recovery bottlenecks that control non-equilibrium lifetimes. This microscopic framework transcends phenomenological models and generalizes across materials, establishing design principles for ultrafast control of material properties.

en: Hierarchical quasiparticle dynamics in antiferromagnets revealed by time- and momentum-resolved X-ray scattering


en: The goal of this proposal is to explore the competition between electron and energy transfer from photoexcited tryptophan to the heme group in ferrous and ferric Cytochrome c in physiological media. Cyt c contains only one tryptophan amino-acid residue, whose decay is still debated. While previous works alluded to an energy transfer, our recent experimental and theoretical studies raise the question of a competing electron transfer process, possibly simultaneous to a back-electron transfer in a Dexter process. This question can be resolved by monitoring the response of the central iron atom via femtosecond X-ray emission and X-ray absorptions, only possible due to the high peak brightness and short pulse duration of x-ray FELs.

en: Energy vs Electron Transfer Tryptophan-to-Heme in Cytochrome C


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Supporting data for Ferajoui et.al. A 1 Megapixel charge integrating hybrid pixel detector for electron diffraction JINST 20 202510.1088/1748-0221/20/12/C12007

The research leading to these results has received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation
(Grant n◦ 215650) and the Austrian Science Fund (Grant n◦
I 6546-N).

en: Sparse electron data recorded with Jungfrau


en: This repository contain the experimental data for  the magnetic orders and excitations of the distorted kagome intermetallic magnet TmAgGe published in Phys. Rev. B 107, 224419 (2023). Single crystal diffraction and inelastic neutron diffraction was carried out on the Zebra and CAMEA beamlines at the Paul Scherrer Institut.

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en: Magnetic ground state and perturbations of the distorted kagome Ising metal TmAgGe

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camea

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magnetic-excitations

display_name: magnetic-excitations

magnetic-structure

display_name: magnetic-structure

sinq

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tmagge

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zebra

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This dataset contains radially integrated scattering data from narwhal tusk slices measured to investigate the tusk’s unique spiral structure with highly anisotropic mechanical properties. The full dataset comprises approximately 4400 scan folders, each corresponding to an line of a 2D grid scan. The subset associated with the publication by A. Rodriguez-Palomo, M. Liebi, H. Birkedal et al., “The narwhal tusk assembles its macroscopic helix from building blocks with opposing twists”, Nature Communications (2026), includes thin slices from two male narwhal tusks measured in transversal and longitudinal orientations.

The publication-relevant samples are: tusk 1, ID001 (transversal cut, scans 03115-03465), ID002 (transversal cut, scans 02714-03114), ID009 (longitudinal cut, scans 01767-02067), and ID010 (longitudinal cut,  scans 00702-01077); tusk 2, ID022 (transversal cut, scans 02068-02412), ID027 (transversal cut, scans 01078-01465), ID028 (longitudinal cut, scans 02413-02713), and ID029 (longitudinal cut, scans 01466-01766). These scan ranges identify the data used in the associated article within the larger dataset.


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The extinct plant group Bennettitales (Cycadeoidales) was a prominent part of Mesozoic vegetation. The group has been studied extensively and for more than 100 years it has been central in discussions of the relationships among the major groups of seed plants in which extinct plants were also considered. Despite much effort the phylogenetic position of the Bennettitales is still unresolved with a major obstacle being uncertainty about how to interpret the organisation and structure of the seed. The most widely accepted interpretation has been that the seed, like the seeds of most conifers, has a single integument around the nucellus and lacks any additional coverings. An alternative interpretation is that the seed integument is surrounded by an envelope comparable to the situation in extant Gnetales and extinct Erdtmanithecales. The petrified seed cone of Cycadeoidea (Bennettites) morierei described in the late nineteenth century from the Early Cretaceous of Normandy is one of the most informative bennettitalean reproductive structures with its superb preservation offering great potential for resolving the unsettled discussion regarding seed structure in Bennettitales.
	C. morierei was carefully documented by Octave Lignier in his monumental study “Végétaux fossiles de Normandie. Structure et affinités du Bennettites morierei Sap. & Mar. (sp.)” from 1894, but despite his meticulous analysis of the fossil, Lignier left certain questions open in his interpretation and in his widely cited reconstruction of the structure of the seed. In the paper associated with the datasets provided here we have re-examined fragments of Cycadeoidea morierei using synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy (SRXTM) to attempt to answer some of these open questions.
	Cycadeoidea morierei is based on a single petrified seed cone. The specimen was fractured by Lignier, who prepared several thin sections, in longitudinal as well as transverse directions in preparing his account. The original material was stored at the University of Caen, France, but most was lost during the second World War. However, several larger and smaller fragments of the seed cone were later recovered at the university and made available for the present study. Among the fragments studied using SRXTM were small isolated, abraded seeds and interseminal scales (e.g., fragments 6 and 8) and a few small groups of fractured seeds and interseminal scales still tightly packed together (e.g., fragment 17). Typically, these small fragments are broken at the base and only rarely are remains of the seed stalk preserved. One larger fragment (fragment 24) consists of several seeds with seed stalks intact. For comparison with Cycadeoidea morierei we also examined a fragment of another classic petrified seed cone, Cycadeoidea gibsoniana from the Early Cretaceous of isle of Wight, Southern England, using SRXTM. The results, combined with a comparative survey of other fossil material, indicate that the seeds of Bennettitales had at least one, perhaps two, envelopes covering the integument, comparable to what is seen among extant Gnetales, extinct Erdtmanithecales, and diverse fossil seeds recovered from Early Cretaceous mesofossil assemblages. Most of the SRXTM analyses of the Cycadeoidea material were carried during 2009-2023 on the TOMCAT beamline, SLS, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland. Fragment 24 was analysed at the new I-TOMCAT beamline at SLS in November 2025.

en: Synchrotron radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy datasets for seed structure in Cycadeoidea morierei


en: Aligned complex-valued projections and tomographic datasets from 3 PXCT acquisitions on the same catalyst specimen primarily composed of zeolite, alumina, and nickel, acquired at 3 different photon energies close to the nickel absorption edge. The file information.txt contains a description of the data. We also include the software scripts used to process the data.

en: The PSI Data Catalog is the central repository directory for scientific metadata generated at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). Powered by SciCat—a community-driven, open-source metadata management framework co-developed by PSI—the catalog provides discoverability and standardized access pathways to petabyte-scale datasets produced across PSI’s large-scale research facilities, including the Swiss Light Source (SLS), the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source (SINQ), and the SwissFEL X-ray free-electron laser.

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en: Aligned complex-valued projections and 3D tomographic datasets from a catalyst specimen