A multiscale generative model to understand disorder in domain boundaries
Science Advances(2023)
Abstract
A continuing challenge in atomic resolution microscopy is to identify significant structural motifs and their assembly rules in synthesized materials with limited observations. Here we propose and validate a simple and effective hybrid generative model capable of predicting unseen domain boundaries in a potassium sodium niobate thin film from only a small number of observations, without expensive first-principles calculation. Our results demonstrate that complicated domain boundary structures can arise from simple interpretable local rules, played out probabilistically. We also found new significant tileable boundary motifs and evidence that our system creates domain boundaries with the highest entropy. More broadly, our work shows that simple yet interpretable machine learning models can help us describe and understand the nature and origin of disorder in complex materials.
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