Capturing dynamical correlations using implicit neural representations

Sathya R. Chitturi, Zhurun Ji, Alexander N. Petsch, Cheng Peng, Zhantao Chen, Rajan Plumley, Mike Dunne, Sougata Mardanya, Sugata Chowdhury, Hongwei Chen, Arun Bansil, Adrian Feiguin, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Stephen M. Hayden, Daniel Ratner, Chunjing Jia, Youssef Nashed, Joshua J. Turner

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Abstract

Understanding the nature and origin of collective excitations in materials is of fundamental importance for unraveling the underlying physics of a many-body system. Excitation spectra are usually obtained by measuring the dynamical structure factor, S(Q, ω), using inelastic neutron or x-ray scattering techniques and are analyzed by comparing the experimental results against calculated predictions. We introduce a data-driven analysis tool which leverages ‘neural implicit representations’ that are specifically tailored for handling spectrographic measurements and are able to efficiently obtain unknown parameters from experimental data via automatic differentiation. In this work, we employ linear spin wave theory simulations to train a machine learning platform, enabling precise exchange parameter extraction from inelastic neutron scattering data on the square-lattice spin-1 antiferromagnet La2NiO4, showcasing a viable pathway towards automatic refinement of advanced models for ordered magnetic systems.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5852
JournalNature Communications
Volume14
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2023

Funding

This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Award No. DE-SC0022216, as well as under Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515, both for the Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, as well as for the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), part of the Scientific User Facilities Division. A portion of this research used resources at the Spallation Neutron Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. J.J. Turner acknowledges support from the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences through the Early Career Research Program. Z.J. is supported by the Stanford Science fellowship, and the Urbanek -Chodorow postdoctoral fellowship awards. A.N. Petsch and S.M. Hayden acknowledge funding and support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grant Nos. EP/L015544/1 and EP/R011141/1. This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Award No. DE-SC0022216, as well as under Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515, both for the Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, as well as for the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), part of the Scientific User Facilities Division. A portion of this research used resources at the Spallation Neutron Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. J.J. Turner acknowledges support from the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences through the Early Career Research Program. Z.J. is supported by the Stanford Science fellowship, and the Urbanek -Chodorow postdoctoral fellowship awards. A.N. Petsch and S.M. Hayden acknowledge funding and support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grant Nos. EP/L015544/1 and EP/R011141/1.

FundersFunder number
Stanford Science
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science
Basic Energy SciencesDE-SC0022216, DE-AC02-76SF00515
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilEP/R011141/1, EP/L015544/1

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