Machine-learning enabled thermodynamic model for the design of new rare-earth compounds

Abstract

We employ a descriptor based machine-learning approach to assess the effect of chemical alloying on formation-enthalpy of rare-earth intermetallics. Application of machine-learning approaches in rare-earth intermetallic design have been sparse due to limited availability of reliable datasets. In this work, we developed an `in-house' rare-earth database with more than 600$+$ compounds, each entry was populated with formation enthalpy and related atomic features using high-throughput density-functional theory (DFT). The SISSO (sure independence screening and sparsifying operator) based machine-learning method with meaningful atomic features was used for training and testing the formation enthalpies of rare earth compounds. The complex lattice function coupled with the machine-learning model was used to explore the effect of transition metal alloying on the energy stability of Ce based cubic Laves phases (MgCu${}_2$ type). The SISSO predictions show good agreement with high-fidelity DFT calculations and X$-$ray powder diffraction measurements. Our study provides quantitative guidance for compositional considerations within a machine-learning model and discovering new metastable materials. The electronic-structure of Ce$-$Fe$-$Cu based compound was also analyzed in$-$depth to understand the electronic origin of phase stability. The interpretable analytical models in combination with density$-$functional theory and experiments provide a fast and reliable design guide for discovering technologically useful materials.

arXiv comment19 pages, 9 figures

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