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High-throughput prediction of the ground-state collinear magnetic order of inorganic materials using Density Functional Theory
npj Computational Materials ( IF 9.7 ) Pub Date : 2019-06-06 , DOI: 10.1038/s41524-019-0199-7
Matthew Kristofer Horton , Joseph Harold Montoya , Miao Liu , Kristin Aslaug Persson

We present a robust, automatic high-throughput workflow for the calculation of magnetic ground state of solid-state inorganic crystals, whether ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic, and their associated magnetic moments within the framework of collinear spin-polarized Density Functional Theory. This is done through a computationally efficient scheme whereby plausible magnetic orderings are first enumerated and prioritized based on symmetry, and then relaxed and their energies determined through conventional DFT + U calculations. This automated workflow is formalized using the atomate code for reliable, systematic use at a scale appropriate for thousands of materials and is fully customizable. The performance of the workflow is evaluated against a benchmark of 64 experimentally known mostly ionic magnetic materials of non-trivial magnetic order and by the calculation of over 500 distinct magnetic orderings. A non-ferromagnetic ground state is correctly predicted in 95% of the benchmark materials, with the experimentally determined ground state ordering found exactly in over 60% of cases. Knowledge of the ground state magnetic order at scale opens up the possibility of high-throughput screening studies based on magnetic properties, thereby accelerating discovery and understanding of new functional materials.



中文翻译:

基于密度泛函理论的无机材料基态共线磁阶的高通量预测

我们提出了一个强大的,自动的高通量工作流程,用于计算共线自旋极化密度泛函理论框架内的固态无机晶体(无论是铁磁性,反铁磁性还是亚铁磁性)的磁性基态及其相关的磁矩。这是通过一种计算有效的方案完成的,在该方案中,首先根据对称性枚举并确定了合理的磁排序,然后放宽了磁排序,并通过常规DFT + U计算确定了它们的能量。该自动化工作流程已使用原子化形式进行了形式化可以可靠地,系统地使用适用于数千种材料的比例尺的代码,并且可以完全自定义。工作流程的性能是根据64种非平凡磁阶的实验已知的大多数离子磁性材料的基准进行评估的,并通过计算500多种不同的磁阶进行了评估。在95%的基准材料中正确预测了非铁磁基态,在60%以上的情况下,实验确定的基态有序。大规模了解基态磁阶,为基于磁性能的高通量筛选研究提供了可能性,从而加快了对新功能材料的发现和理解。

更新日期:2019-11-18
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