1.1. What is abICS ?

abICS is a software framework for training a machine learning model to reproduce first-principles energies and then using the model to perform configurational sampling in disordered systems. Specific emphasis is placed on multi-component solid state systems such as metal and oxide alloys. The current version of abics can use neural network models implemented in aenet to be used as the machine learning model. As of this moment, abICS can also generate Quantum Espresso, VASP, and OpenMX input files for obtaining the reference training data for the machine learning model. For the sampling algorithms, abICS implements the extended Monte Carlo methods, namely, the replica exchange Monte Carlo method (RXMC) and the population annealing Monte Carlo method (PAMC). In addition, as a beta version, the grand canonical sampling is supported.

1.2. Developers

abICS is developed by the following members.

  • ver. 2.0

    • Shusuke Kasamatsu (Yamagata University)

    • Yuichi Motoyama (Institute for Solid State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo)

    • Kazuyoshi Yoshimi (Institute for Solid State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo)

    • Tatsumi Aoyama (Institute for Solid State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo)

    • Osamu Sugino (Institute for Solid State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo)

  • ver. 1.0

    • Shusuke Kasamatsu (Yamagata University)

    • Yuichi Motoyama (Institute for Solid State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo)

    • Kazuyoshi Yoshimi (Institute for Solid State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo)

    • Yoshiyuki Yamamoto (Institute for Solid State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo)

    • Osamu Sugino (Institute for Solid State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo)

    • Taisuke Ozaki (Institute for Solid State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo)

1.3. Version information

  • ver. 2.1.0 : 2023/06/12.

  • ver. 2.0.1 : 2022/11/04.

  • ver. 2.0 : 2022/06/24.

  • ver. 1.0 : 2020/05/01.

  • ver. 1.0-beta : 2020/03/31.

  • ver. 0.1 : 2019/12/10.

1.4. License

This package is distributed under GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL v3) or later.

We hope that you cite the following article when you publish the results using abICS.

Shusuke Kasamatsu, Yuichi Motoyama, Kazuyoshi Yoshimi, Tatsumi Aoyama, “Configuration sampling in multi-component multi-sublattice systems enabled by ab Initio Configuration Sampling Toolkit (abICS)”, accepted in STAM: Methods (arXiv:2309.04769).

Bibtex:

@article{kasamatsu2023configuration,
author = {Shusuke Kasamatsu, Yuichi Motoyama, Kazuyoshi Yoshimi and Tatsumi Aoyama},
title = {Configuration sampling in multi-component multi-sublattice systems enabled by ab initio Configuration sampling toolkit ({abICS})},
journal = {Science and Technology of Advanced Materials: Methods},
volume = {0},
number = {ja},
pages = {2284128},
year = {2023},
publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
doi = {10.1080/27660400.2023.2284128},
URL = {https://doi.org/10.1080/27660400.2023.2284128},
eprint = {https://doi.org/10.1080/27660400.2023.2284128}