arXiv:2604.21073cond-mat.mtrl-scics.AI2026-04

用AI生成满足磁性与绝缘双重约束的罕见材料,发现12种新候选物。

Generative Discovery of Magnetic Insulators under Competing Physical Constraints

论文配图:Generative Discovery of Magnetic Insulators under Competing Physical Constraints
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  • 结合语言模型与演化算法,生成时即约束磁性与绝缘性
  • 筛选出10种动态稳定、有能隙和磁矩的新磁绝缘体
  • 适合研究量子材料设计或稀缺数据场景下的新材料发现

在数据稀疏的材料设计中,同时满足多个相互竞争的物理约束仍是核心挑战。磁绝缘体尤为典型:促进磁有序的电子条件常导致金属性,而绝缘性又抑制磁性稳定所需的相互作用。因此,实验可行的磁绝缘体极为稀少,传统筛选难以识别。本文提出MagMatLLM框架,融合基于语言模型的晶体生成、演化选择、代理筛选与第一性原理验证,同步追求稳定性、磁性和绝缘性。不同于先求稳定的传统方法,该框架在生成与筛选阶段即施加功能约束,引导搜索进入由竞争物理需求定义的稀疏材料空间。通过此流程,我们发现了12种此前未报道的磁绝缘体候选物,包括Tm₄Co₂Cr₂O₁₂和Cr₄Nb₂O₁₂。其中10种经声子分析显示动态稳定,且在自旋极化密度泛函理论计算中表现出有限能隙和非零磁矩。本工作不仅揭示具体新材料,更建立了一种适用于稀疏化学空间的多目标约束引导发现范式,为量子材料在竞争物理约束下的设计提供可迁移策略。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Discovering materials that must simultaneously satisfy multiple competing constraints remains a central challenge in computational materials design, particularly in data-scarce regimes where conventional data-driven approaches are least effective. Magnetic insulators represent a stringent example: the electronic conditions that favor magnetic order often also promote metallicity, while insulating behavior suppresses the interactions that stabilize magnetism. As a result, experimentally viable magnetic insulators are rare and difficult to identify through conventional screening. Here, we introduce MagMatLLM, a constraint-guided generative discovery framework that integrates language-model-based crystal generation with evolutionary selection, surrogate screening, and first-principles validation to target simultaneous stability, magnetism, and insulating behavior. Unlike stability-first approaches, the framework enforces functional constraints during generation and selection, steering the search toward sparsely populated regions of materials space defined by competing physical requirements. Using this workflow, we identify twelve previously unreported candidate magnetic insulators, including Tm$_4$Co$_2$Cr$_2$O$_{12}$ and Cr$_4$Nb$_2$O$_{12}$. Of these, ten are dynamically stable by phonon analysis and exhibit finite band gaps and nonzero magnetic moments in spin-polarized density functional theory calculations. Beyond the specific compounds identified here, this work establishes a general constraint-guided paradigm for multi-objective materials discovery in sparse chemical spaces and provides a transferable strategy for the design of quantum materials under competing physical constraints.

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