A Sampling Strategy in Efficient Potential Energy Surface Mapping for Predicting Atomic Diffusivity in Crystals by Machine Learning

Abstract

We propose a machine-learning-based (ML-based) method for efficiently predicting atomic diffusivity in crystals, in which the potential energy surface (PES) of a diffusion carrier is partially evaluated by first-principles calculations. To preferentially evaluate the region of interest governing the atomic diffusivity, a statistical PES model based on a Gaussian process (GP-PES) is constructed and updated iteratively from known information on already-computed potential energies (PEs). In the proposed method, all local energy minima (stable & metastable sites) and elementary processes of atomic diffusion (atomic jumps) are explored on the predictive mean of the GP-PES. The uncertainty of jump frequency in each elementary process is then estimated on the basis of the variance of the GP-PES. The acquisition function determining the next grid point to be computed is designed to reflect the impacts of the uncertainties of jump frequencies on the uncertainty of the macroscopic atomic diffusivity. The numerical solution of the master equation is here employed to readily estimate the atomic diffusivity, which enables us to design the acquisition function reflecting the centrality of each elementary process.

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