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most citedA generic, hierarchical framework for massively parallel Wang-Landau sampling

130 citations · 389 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

exa-PD: A scalable high-performance workflow for multi-element phase diagram construction

Zhuo Ye, Feng Zhang, Maxim Moraru +4

Exa-PD is a highly parallelizable workflow designed for the construction of multi-element phase diagrams (PDs). It uses standard sampling techniques, molecular dynamics (MD) and Mo…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Structural modulation, physical properties, and electronic band structure of the kagome metal UCrGe

Z. W. Riedel, P. A. E. Murgatroyd, C. S. Kengle +13

The chemical flexibility of the stoichiometry, where an -block element is intercalated in the CoSn structure type, allows for the tuning of flatbands associated with k…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

exaPD: A highly parallelizable workflow for multi-element phase diagram (PD) construction

Feng Zhang, Zhuo Ye, Maxim Moraru +4

Phase diagrams (PDs) illustrate the relative stability of competing phases under varying conditions, serving as critical tools for synthesizing complex materials. Reliable phase di…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

exa-AMD: An Exascale-Ready Framework for Accelerating the Discovery and Design of Functional Materials

Weiyi Xia, Maxim Moraru, Ying Wai Li +1

We present exa-AMD, an open-source, high-performance framework designed for accelerated materials discovery on modern supercomputers. exa-AMD overcomes key computational bottleneck…

cs.DC2025

exa-AMD: A Scalable Workflow for Accelerating AI-Assisted Materials Discovery and Design

Maxim Moraru, Weiyi Xia, Zhuo Ye +4

exa-AMD is a Python-based application designed to accelerate the discovery and design of functional materials by integrating AI/ML tools, materials databases, and quantum mechanica…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Best of Both Worlds: Enforcing Detailed Balance in Machine Learning Models of Transition Rates

Anjana Anu Talapatra, Anup Pandey, Matthew S. Wilson +4

The slow microstructural evolution of materials often plays a key role in determining material properties. When the unit steps of the evolution process are slow, direct simulation…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

High-Throughput Search and Prediction of Layered 4f-Materials

Lin Hou, Ying Wai Li, Christopher Lane

The development of multifunctional devices calls for the discovery of new layered materials with novel electronic properties. f-electron systems naturally host a rich set of compet…

physics.app-ph2023★ 1 cited

Machine learning potentials with Iterative Boltzmann Inversion: training to experiment

Sakib Matin, Alice Allen, Justin S. Smith +7

Methodologies for training machine learning potentials (MLPs) to quantum-mechanical simulation data have recently seen tremendous progress. Experimental data has a very different c…

cs.AI2023

Gradient-based Wang-Landau Algorithm: A Novel Sampler for Output Distribution of Neural Networks over the Input Space

Weitang Liu, Ying-Wai Li, Yi-Zhuang You +1

The output distribution of a neural network (NN) over the entire input space captures the complete input-output mapping relationship, offering insights toward a more comprehensive…

physics.comp-ph2023★ 1 cited

Reduction of Autocorrelation Times in Lattice Path Integral Quantum Monte Carlo via Direct Sampling of the Truncated Exponential Distribution

Emanuel Casiano-Diaz, Kipton Barros, Ying Wai Li +1

In Monte Carlo simulations, proposed configurations are accepted or rejected according to an acceptance ratio, which depends on an underlying probability distribution and an a prio…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 11 cited

Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning of Structural Phases of Polymers Adsorbed to Nanowires

Quinn Parker, Dilina Perera, Ying Wai Li +1

We identify configurational phases and structural transitions in a polymer nanotube composite by means of machine learning. We employ various unsupervised dimensionality reduction…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 81 cited

Machine Learning Assisted Insight to Spin Ice DyTiO

Anjana M Samarakoon, Kipton Barros, Ying Wai Li +8

Complex behavior poses challenges in extracting models from experiment. An example is spin liquid formation in frustrated magnets like DyTiO. Understanding has been hin…

physics.comp-ph2017★ 1 cited

A histogram-free multicanonical Monte Carlo algorithm for the basis expansion of density of states

Ying Wai Li, Markus Eisenbach

We report a new multicanonical Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm to obtain the density of states (DOS) for physical systems with continuous state variables in statistical mechanics. Our a…

physics.comp-ph2015★ 10 cited

Exploring Replica-Exchange Wang-Landau sampling in higher-dimensional parameter space

Alexandra Valentim, Julio C. S. Rocha, Shan-Ho Tsai +4

We considered a higher-dimensional extension for the replica-exchange Wang-Landau algorithm to perform a random walk in the energy and magnetization space of the two-dimensional Is…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Replica-exchange Wang-Landau sampling: Pushing the limits of Monte Carlo simulations in materials sciences

Dilina Perera, Ying Wai Li, Markus Eisenbach +2

We describe the study of thermodynamics of materials using replica-exchange Wang-Landau (REWL) sampling, a generic framework for massively parallel implementations of the Wang-Land…

physics.comp-ph2014★ 86 cited

Scalable replica-exchange framework for Wang-Landau sampling

Thomas Vogel, Ying Wai Li, Thomas Wüst +1

We investigate a generic, parallel replica-exchange framework for Monte Carlo simulations based on the Wang-Landau method. To demonstrate its advantages and general applicability f…

physics.comp-ph2014★ 24 cited

A new paradigm for petascale Monte Carlo simulation: Replica exchange Wang-Landau sampling

Ying Wai Li, Thomas Vogel, Thomas Wüst +1

We introduce a generic, parallel Wang-Landau method that is naturally suited to implementation on massively parallel, petaflop supercomputers. The approach introduces a replica-exc…

physics.comp-ph2013★ 13 cited

Exploring new frontiers in statistical physics with a new, parallel Wang-Landau framework

Thomas Vogel, Ying Wai Li, Thomas Wüst +1

Combining traditional Wang-Landau sampling for multiple replica systems with an exchange of densities of states between replicas, we describe a general framework for simulations on…

physics.comp-ph2013★ 130 cited

A generic, hierarchical framework for massively parallel Wang-Landau sampling

Thomas Vogel, Ying Wai Li, Thomas Wüst +1

We introduce a parallel Wang-Landau method based on the replica-exchange framework for Monte Carlo simulations. To demonstrate its advantages and general applicability for simulati…

cond-mat.soft2011★ 31 cited

Monte Carlo simulations of the HP model (the "Ising model" of protein folding)

Ying Wai Li, Thomas Wüst, David P. Landau

Using Wang-Landau sampling with suitable Monte Carlo trial moves (pull moves and bond-rebridging moves combined) we have determined the density of states and thermodynamic properti…