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ArticleIUCrJ2026

Continuous invariant-based asymmetries of periodic crystals quantify deviations from higher symmetry.

Surya Majumder, Daniel Widdowson, Yury Elkin, Olga Anosova, Andrew I Cooper, Graeme M Day, Vitaliy A Kurlin

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Article in IUCrJ, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Surya MajumderComputer Science Department, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom.
Daniel WiddowsonMaterials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L7 3NY, United Kingdom.
Yury ElkinComputer Science Department, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom.
Olga AnosovaComputer Science Department, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom.
Andrew I CooperMaterials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L7 3NY, United Kingdom.
Graeme M DaySchool of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1NX, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8396-2771
Vitaliy A KurlinComputer Science Department, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom.

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Royal Society APX\R1\231152
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Abstract

Ideal symmetry is known to break down under almost any noise. One measure of asymmetry in a periodic crystal is the relative multiplicity Z' of geometrically non-equivalent units. However, Z' discontinuously changes under almost any displacement of atoms, which can arbitrarily scale up a primitive cell. This discontinuity was recently resolved by a hierarchy of invariant descriptors that continuously change under all small perturbations. We introduce a Continuous Invariant-based Asymmetry (CIA) to quantify (in physically meaningful ångstroms) the deviation of a periodic crystal from a higher-symmetry form. Our experiments on several crystal structure prediction datasets show that about a half of simulated crystals have high values of CIA, while all experimental structures in these datasets have CIA = 0. On another hand, many crystals with high values of Z' in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) turned out to be close to more symmetric forms with Z' ≤ 1 due to low values of CIAs.

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molecular crystalsnanocrystalsnanostructurestructure prediction

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PMID42220268
PMCPMC13324622

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