Elastic constants from charge density distribution in FCC high-entropy alloys using CNN and DFT

While high-entropy alloys (HEAs) present exponentially large compositional space for alloy design, they also create enormous computational challenges to trace the compositional space, especially for the inherently expensive density functional theory calculations (DFT). Recent works have integrated m...

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Main Authors: Hossein Mirzaee, Ramin Soltanmohammadi, Nathan Linton, Jacob Fischer, Serveh Kamrava, Pejman Tahmasebi, Dilpuneet Aidhy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2024-12-01
Series:APL Machine Learning
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0229105
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Summary:While high-entropy alloys (HEAs) present exponentially large compositional space for alloy design, they also create enormous computational challenges to trace the compositional space, especially for the inherently expensive density functional theory calculations (DFT). Recent works have integrated machine learning into DFT to overcome these challenges. However, often these models require an intensive search of appropriate physics-based descriptors. In this paper, we employ a 3D convolutional neural network over just one descriptor, i.e., the charge density derived from DFT, to simplify and bypass the hunt for the descriptors. We show that the elastic constants of face-centered cubic multi-elemental alloys in the Ni–Cu–Au–Pd–Pt system can be predicted from charge density. In addition, using our recent PREDICT approach, we show that the model can be trained only on the charge densities of simpler binary and ternary alloys to effectively predict elastic constants in complex multi-elemental alloys, thereby further enabling easier property-tracing in the large compositional space of HEAs.
ISSN:2770-9019