Reliable crystal structure predictions from first principles

Developing theoretical frameworks to predict new polymorphs is highly desirable. Here the authors present an ab initio based force-field approach for crystal structure prediction offering a dramatic computational speed-up over fully ab initio schemes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rahul Nikhar, Krzysztof Szalewicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30692-y