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In Patterns (New York, N.Y.)

Monte Carlo (MC) simulation of the classical Heisenberg model has become the de facto tool to estimate the Curie temperature (T C) of two-dimensional (2D) magnets. As an alternative, here we develop data-driven models for the five most common crystal types, considering the isotropic and anisotropic exchange of up to four nearest neighbors and the single-ion anisotropy. We sample the 20-dimensional Heisenberg spin Hamiltonian and conceive a bisection-based MC technique to simulate a quarter of a million materials for training deep neural networks, which yield testing R 2 scores of nearly 0.99. Since 2D magnetism has a natural tendency toward low T C, learning-from-data is combined with data-from-learning to ensure a nearly uniform final data distribution over a wide range of T C (10-1,000 K). Global and local analysis of the features confirms the models' interpretability. We also demonstrate that the T C can be accurately estimated by a purely first-principles-based approach, free from any empirical corrections.

Kabiraj Arnab, Jain Tripti, Mahapatra Santanu

2022-Dec-09

2D materials, AutoML, Curie temperature, Monte Carlo simulation, Shapley score, anisotropic Heisenberg model, deep learning, density functional theory, machine learning, magnetism