arXiv:2607.19198cond-mat.mtrl-scics.LG2026-07被引 1

用扩散模型高效生成非晶材料结构,实现精准采样与逆向设计。

ATLAS: A Foundation Neural Sampler for Amorphous Materials

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  • 基于等变图网络的扩散过程,直接从能量函数生成玻尔兹曼分布结构。
  • 低温下自由能误差低于0.2%,能量评估次数减少500倍以上。
  • 支持多组分、跨尺度设计,可快速搜索高熵合金最优性能组合。

非晶材料具有优异的力学与功能特性,但其复杂的能量景观难以采样。在玻璃化转变温度以下,传统分子动力学与蒙特卡洛方法因稀有翻越势垒事件而效率低下,而数据驱动生成模型又受限于稀缺且有偏的参考系。本文提出ATLAS,一种基于等变图神经网络参数化的扩散采样器,可直接从目标能量函数生成玻尔兹曼分布的非晶结构。通过利用扩散过程的时间反演特性,它实现了热力学量的高效估计和向目标可观测量的引导。在二维Kob-Andersen系统中,ATLAS重现了平行退火马尔可夫链蒙特卡洛的结构分布、自由能与熵,低温度玻璃态下自由能误差低于0.2%,能量评估次数减少超500倍。在Cu-Zr与Cr-Co-Ni金属玻璃中,成功复现实验观测的短程序趋势,并可引导结构向指定序参数或优化体模量演化。此外,成分无关预训练优于特定成分训练,将逆向设计成本降低数百倍,支持使用昂贵的通用机器学习势函数采样。结合大语言模型代理,ATLAS在八元体系中搜索兼具刚度与延展性的高熵金属玻璃,在480次查询内收敛至帕累托前沿。这些结果确立了ATLAS作为非晶材料采样、引导与设计的基础模型。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Amorphous materials exhibit exceptional mechanical and functional properties, yet their rugged energy landscapes are notoriously difficult to sample. Below the glass-transition temperature, conventional molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo become inefficient because equilibration relies on rare barrier-crossing events, while data-driven generative models are constrained by scarce and biased reference ensembles. Here, we introduce ATLAS, an efficient sampler that learns a diffusion process to generate Boltzmann-distributed amorphous structures directly from a target energy function. Parameterized by an equivariant graph neural network, ATLAS generalizes across system size, temperature, and composition. By exploiting the time reversal of the diffusion process, it enables efficient estimation of thermodynamic quantities and steering toward target observables. In two-dimensional Kob-Andersen systems, ATLAS reproduces parallel tempering Markov chain Monte Carlo structural distributions, free energies and entropies, achieving below 0.2% free energy error in the low-temperature glass regime with over 500-fold fewer energy evaluations. In Cu-Zr and Cr-Co-Ni metallic glasses, ATLAS recovers experimentally observed short-range-order trends and steers structures toward prescribed order parameters and optimized bulk moduli. Moreover, composition-amortized pretraining outperforms composition-specific training from scratch, reduces inverse-design costs by several hundred-fold, and enables sampling with expensive universal machine learning interatomic potentials. Coupled to a large language model agent, ATLAS searches an eight-element space for high-entropy metallic glasses balancing stiffness and ductility, identifying a converged Pareto frontier within 480 oracle evaluations. Together, these results establish ATLAS as a foundation model for sampling, steering and designing amorphous materials.

非晶材料扩散模型逆向设计分子模拟

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