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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 148, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.5023671
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- Danish Council for Independent Research-Natural Science Grant [0602-02566B]
- VILLUM FONDEN Grant [16562]
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We present a method for accelerating the global structure optimization of atomic compounds. The method is demonstrated to speed up the finding of the anatase TiO2(001)-(1 x 4) surface reconstruction within a density functional tight-binding theory framework using an evolutionary algorithm. As a key element of the method, we use unsupervised machine learning techniques to categorize atoms present in a diverse set of partially disordered surface structures into clusters of atoms having similar local atomic environments. Analysis of more than 1000 different structures shows that the total energy of the structures correlates with the summed distances of the atomic environments to their respective cluster centers in feature space, where the sum runs over all atoms in each structure. Our method is formulated as a gradient based minimization of this summed cluster distance for a given structure and alternates with a standard gradient based energy minimization. While the latter minimization ensures local relaxation within a given energy basin, the former enables escapes from meta-stable basins and hence increases the overall performance of the global optimization. Published by AIP Publishing.
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