arXiv:2605.19124cond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.dis-nn2026-05被引 1

融合经典与AI方法,解决材料化学无序的模拟与实验脱节问题。

Atomistic Modeling of Chemical Disorder in Materials: Bridging Classical Methods and AI-Assisted Approaches

论文配图:Atomistic Modeling of Chemical Disorder in Materials: Bridging Classical Methods and AI-Assisted Approaches
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  • 用多尺度方法将平均无序描述转化为可模拟的原子构型集
  • 提升无序材料稳定性预测精度,避免理想化假设导致误判
  • 适合材料发现、催化剂设计等需真实无序表征的研究者

化学无序源于晶格位点被多种元素混合占据,在合金、陶瓷及复杂成分材料中广泛存在,短程与长程有序性显著影响材料性能。核心挑战在于实验与模拟间的表征鸿沟:实验常报告部分占有度和系综平均行为,而原子模拟与AI流程通常需要完全指定的构型。解决此问题需开发能将平均无序描述转换为代表性构型集的方法,同时平衡计算成本、偏差与保真度。该问题在AI驱动的材料发现中尤为紧迫,忽略无序可能导致稳定性误判、新颖性误评及实验方向偏离。本文综述了从均场理论、簇展开、准随机近似、蒙特卡洛到基于通用势和生成模型的新兴方法,评估其优劣。进一步指出AI可降低微态评估、构型探索及原子到热力学闭合的成本,实现无序原生能力,包括工作流筛选、敏感于有序性的表征、无序结构与分布的生成模型、以及动力学感知的无序预测。该框架为实现无序原生的AI提供实用路线图,使化学无序从表征障碍转变为可调控的变量,推动真实世界材料的AI加速发现。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Chemical disorder, originating from the mixed occupation of crystallographic sites by multiple elements, is widespread in alloys, ceramics, and compositionally complex materials, where short- and long-range orderings can strongly influence properties. A central obstacle is the representation gap between experiments and simulations: experiments often report disorder as partial occupancies and ensemble-averaged behaviors, whereas atomistic simulations and AI workflows usually require fully specified configurations. Tackling this gap requires computational methods that convert averaged disorder descriptions into representative configurational ensembles while balancing cost, bias, and fidelity. This challenge has become more urgent in AI-driven computational discovery, where ignoring disorder may cause AI workflows to misrank stability, misjudge novelty, and misdirect experiments with too-idealized representations. This Review highlights how classical and AI-driven methods can bridge this representation gap. We assess the strengths and limitations of approaches spanning mean-field theories, cluster expansion, quasi-random approximations, Monte Carlo, and emerging schemes powered by universal interatomic potentials and generative models. We further highlight how AI can accelerate classical computational schemes by lowering the cost of microstate evaluation, configurational exploration, and atomistic-to-thermodynamic closure. We also emphasize how AI can enable disorder-native capabilities, including workflow triage, ordering-sensitive and alchemical representations, generative models of disordered structures and distributions, and kinetics-aware disorder prediction. Together, this framework outlines a practical roadmap toward disorder-native AI, which can transform chemical disorder from a representational obstacle into a controllable variable for realistic AI-accelerated materials discovery.

材料模拟化学无序AI辅助生成模型

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