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ArticleNature communications2025

Full-cycle device-scale simulations of memory materials with a tailored atomic-cluster-expansion potential.

Yuxing Zhou, Daniel F Thomas du Toit, Stephen R Elliott, Wei Zhang, Volker L Deringer

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Understanding and Designing Phase Change Materials: Insights From Atom Probe Tomography.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  3. Unravel the complexity.Nature materials · 2026
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5 authors.

Yuxing ZhouInorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8061-3867
Daniel F Thomas du ToitInorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Stephen R ElliottPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Wei ZhangCenter for Alloy Innovation and Design (CAID), State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. wzhang0@mail.xjtu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0720-4781
Volker L DeringerInorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. volker.deringer@chem.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6873-0278

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62374131RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/X035891/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computer simulations have long been key to understanding and designing phase-change materials (PCMs) for memory technologies. Machine learning is now increasingly being used to accelerate the modelling of PCMs, and yet it remains challenging to simultaneously reach the length and time scales required to simulate the operation of real-world PCM devices. Here, we show how ultra-fast machine-learned interatomic potentials, based on the atomic cluster expansion (ACE) framework, enable simulations of PCMs reflecting applications in devices with excellent scalability on high-performance computing platforms. We report full-cycle simulations-including the time-consuming crystallisation process (from digital "zeroes" to "ones")-thus representing the entire programming cycle for cross-point memory devices. We also showcase a simulation of full-cycle operations, relevant to neuromorphic computing, in a mushroom-type device geometry.

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