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The study was led by theorists at Emory University and experimentalists at Yale University. Senior authors include Fang Liu and Yao Wang, assistant professors in Emory’s Department of Chemistry, and Yu He, assistant professor in Yale’s Department of Applied Physics.
The team applied machine-learning techniques to detect clear spectral signals that indicate phase transitions in quantum materials — systems where electrons are strongly entangled. These materials are notoriously difficult to model with traditional physics because of their unpredictable fluctuations.
“Our method gives a fast and accurate snapshot of a very complex phase transition, at virtually no cost,” says Xu Chen, the study’s first author and an Emory PhD student in chemistry. “We hope this can dramatically speed up discoveries in the field of superconductivity.”
One of the challenges in applying machine learning to quantum materials is the lack of sufficient high-quality experimental data needed to train models. To overcome this, the researchers used high-throughput simulations to generate large amounts of data. They then combined these simulation results with just a small amount of experimental data to create a powerful and efficient machine-learning framework.
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