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Burakov S.V., Zaloga A.N., Pan’kin S.I., Semenkin E.S., Yakimov I.S. Applying a self-configuring genetic algorithm for modeling the atomic crystalline structure of a chemical compounds using X-ray diffraction data

Abstract: the article is devoted to evaluation of possibility and effectiveness of the use of self-configuring genetic algorithm of global optimization to automate the task of determining the atomic crystal structure of new substances by its powder the x-ray diffraction. The suggested version of the self-configuring genetic algorithm was studied on the problem of determining the known crystal structure of a Ba2CrO4 chemical compound, which required finding the location of 7 independent atoms in the elementary cell of the crystal. To analyze the effectiveness and determining the convergence rate of structural models to the true structure of the substance in the process of evolutionary search the authors performed several dozen launches of selfconfiguring genetic algorithm with different population sizes of structural models and types of genetic operations. The essence of the self-configuration method is in the fact that choice of optimal genetic operators of selection, crossbreeding and mutation from the suggested set of possible variants is performed by the self-configuring genetic algorithm itself while solving the problem. The probability for the operators of being selected to generate the next generation of population of structural models adapts based on the success of evolution by using these operators on the previous generation. This leads to the automatic selection of the best operators providing convergence of structural models to the true crystal structure. One of the main problems that prevent the use of stochastic evolution of genetic algorithms for structure analysis is the need for a non-trivial empirical selection of genetic operators. Applying the self-configuring genetic algorithm to automate the selection of optimal genetic operators in the task of modeling atomic crystal structure of chemical compounds by the X-ray diffraction data is suggested for the first time. In determining the crystal structure of Ba2CrO4 using self-configuring genetic algorithm the convergence rate to the true crystal structure reached 80%. This creates the possibility of developing an automated evolutionary genetic algorithm for structural analysis based on the X-ray diffraction data.


Keywords:

evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, self-configuration of genetic algorithms, crystal structure, X-ray powder diffraction, full-profile analysis, determination of crystal structure, self-configuration, diffraction pattern, genetic operators


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