Compositional Search of Stable Crystalline Structures in Multi-Component Alloys Using Generative Diffusion Models

Grzegorz Kaszuba, Amirhossein Naghdi Dorabati, Stefanos Papanikolaou, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Piotr Sankowski

Primary Area: generative models

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Keywords: Multi-Component Alloys, Generative Diffusion Models, Composition Search, Inverse Design

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TL;DR: Designing multi-component and multi-phase alloys through generative diffusion models, employing Molecular Dynamics.

Abstract: Exploring the vast composition space of multi-component alloys presents a challenging task for both ab initio (first principles) and experimental methods due to the time-consuming procedures involved. This ultimately impedes the discovery of novel, stable materials that may display exceptional properties. Here, the Crystal Diffusion Variational Autoencoder (CDVAE) model is adapted to characterize the stable compositions of a well studied multi-component alloy, NiFeCr, with two distinct crystalline phases known to be stable across its compositional space. To this end, novel extensions to CDVAE were proposed, enhancing the model’s ability to reconstruct configurations from their latent space within the test set by approximately 30% . A fact that increases a model’s probability of discovering new materials when dealing with various crystalline structures. Afterwards, the new model is applied for materials generation, demonstrating excellent agreement in identifying stable configurations within the ternary phase space when compared to first principles data. Finally, a computationally efficient framework for inverse design is proposed, employing Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of multi- component alloys with reliable interatomic potentials, enabling the optimization of materials property across the phase space.

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Submission Number: 8335