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Front. Phys., 15 December 2021
Sec. Condensed Matter Physics

Machines for Materials and Materials for Machines: Metal-Insulator Transitions and Artificial Intelligence

Jennifer Fowlie
&#x;Jennifer Fowlie1*Alexandru Bogdan GeorgescuAlexandru Bogdan Georgescu2Bernat Mundet,Bernat Mundet1,3Javier del ValleJavier del Valle1Philippe TückmantelPhilippe Tückmantel1
  • 1Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
  • 3Electron Spectrometry and Microscopy Laboratory (LSME), Institute of Physics (IPHYS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

In this perspective, we discuss the current and future impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning for the purposes of better understanding phase transitions, particularly in correlated electron materials. We take as a model system the rare-earth nickelates, famous for their thermally-driven metal-insulator transition, and describe various complementary approaches in which machine learning can contribute to the scientific process. In particular, we focus on electron microscopy as a bottom-up approach and metascale statistical analyses of classes of metal-insulator transition materials as a bottom-down approach. Finally, we outline how this improved understanding will lead to better control of phase transitions and present as an example the implementation of rare-earth nickelates in resistive switching devices. These devices could see a future as part of a neuromorphic computing architecture, providing a more efficient platform for neural network analyses – a key area of machine learning.

Introduction

Around the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has become the staple for teasing out insights from large sets of data in both a scientific context and from our everyday lives. AI defines a wide class of computer-based approaches to solve problems that normally require human intelligence [1]. AI, and especially the subfield of machine learning (ML), where the model is able to self-improve based on previous outputs, can reveal patterns in multidimensional data sets that would not have been appreciated otherwise. This can be used in many ways, from relatively benign recommendation systems [2] to potentially more insidious implementations in mass surveillance [3]. One thing that has become clear in this age of AI is that a model can only be as good as the input data. In physics, machine learning has proven itself particularly useful in the context of high-energy physics, and astrophysics, where large, centralized datasets exist. All this leads to the question of why ML is not more ubiquitous in condensed matter physics, the largest subfield of contemporary physics by activity [4].

The nature of the field is no doubt partially to blame for this: the average condensed matter physicist generates relatively little data when compared to their counterparts from other areas of physics. Physical conclusions tend to be drawn from multiple complementary measurements on a small set of samples or devices rather than one large dataset. Compounding this is that data is seldom centralised. Even within a close collaboration between different groups: synthesis parameters are rarely shared with the theoretical scientist, while details of the electronic structure calculation are not shared with the experimentalist. Computational results in the field of correlated materials are performed with a variety of codes and techniques, that do not always give the same results, making the consistent application of machine learning techniques to data generated by multiple groups more difficult.

Here we will discuss two AI-based approaches in condensed matter physics, one nanoscale and one metascale. By metascale we mean that – rather than looking at an individual material at a particular physical scale, new insight is brought into the field from AI or other forms of statistical analysis of multiple materials, at a variety of different possible scales. We attempt to address one of the most fundamental concepts in the subject: the metal-insulator phase transition (MIT). We discuss how ML can contribute to both a bottom-up and top-down understanding of phase transitions through electron microscopy techniques, and metascale analyses of MIT materials respectively. These two approaches, enhanced by ML, will improve understanding and control of the MIT. Then, we will show how the cycle of development can be completed by future implementation of phase transition systems into neuromorphic hardware that could significantly enhance the efficiency of artificial neural networks, used to model a wide variety of nonlinear processes from object recognition [5] to translation [6].

Metal-Insulator Transitions in Rare-Earth Nickelates

Most MIT materials are transition metal oxides [7] and, as a model system in which to study MITs, the rare earth nickelates are a shining example for multiple reasons. These include - when synthesised as epitaxial thin films - their high quality and adaptability in terms of multilayer and superlattice structures as well as their intrinsic physics [8].

The family of perovskite rare earth nickelates, RNiO3, where R can be most of the rare earths, has been widely studied for many decades already [8, 9]. At high temperature, the RNiO3 compounds are paramagnetic metals with a strong hybridisation between the Ni cation and the six oxygens in immediate coordination [10, 11]. Upon reducing temperature, the RNiO3 compounds enter an insulating state with an energy gap characterised by the O-Ni charge transfer energy, i.e., the material is in the charge-transfer regime. [12, 13]. Locally, the material undergoes a structural and electronic disproportionation while entering the insulating phase [1416] stabilised by the electron-lattice coupling [17].

The transition induces a change of resistivity of several orders of magnitude and varies from occurring at cryogenic temperatures to occurring at hundreds of Kelvin. The large range of MIT temperatures is brought about through the substitution of the various rare earth cations, representing a largely steric effect on the electronic bandwidth, along with an associated change in the lattice stiffness to structural disproportionation [1719].

The MIT can be controlled in bulk by parameters, such as pressure [20]. Due to the relative unavailability of large single crystals, much of the work on rare earth nickelates has taken place in the context of thin film heterostructures. The film geometry facilitates the control of the MIT by electric field [21] and light [22] and introduces new tuning parameters such as strain, substrate symmetry, and confinement and interfacial effects [19, 2328].

Atomic Scale Probes of Condensed Matter Systems

In recent years, development of aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has allowed, sometimes subtle and often pico-scale, effects at heterointerfaces to be accessed.

STEM is a powerful technique that can image crystals and non-periodic structures directly in real space with sub-atomic resolution. Through monitoring unit cell by unit cell, this analysis is critical to understand the physical properties of materials and particularly those that emerge in epitaxial heterostructures. However, as a scanning technique, the acquired datasets are typically large (up to a few terabytes), noisy (especially from scanning distortions), redundant (most pixels contain similar information) and sometimes require complex interpretation. Therefore, in some cases it might be difficult to identify the most relevant information from a given dataset and to efficiently extract it, particularly when studying an unknown compound. In this respect, ML has unlocked the ability to rapidly and automatically extract physically relevant features from STEM images [29], for example defects and dopants in graphene lattices [3036], allowing access to a treasure-trove of information on the atomic scale physics and chemistry of materials.

Furthermore, the possibility of coupling imaging detectors with spectrometers, such as energy dispersive x-ray (EDS) or electron energy loss (EELS), makes STEM even more complete. When combined, these detectors generate 3D datasets where each individual real space image pixel contains a spectrum of chemical and electronic information from the corresponding lattice position. However, in contrast to other spectroscopic techniques such as x-ray absorption spectroscopy, the output signal in EELS or EDS is significantly lower due the smaller volume of sample that is probed, which ultimately limits the energy resolution. In this aspect, ML algorithms have become an indispensable tool for boosting the signal-to-noise ratio of the acquired spectra and/or for isolating mixed spectral contributions. Among all the different approaches, principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most routinely used methods for spectral noise reduction. This method consists of decomposing the initial dataset into a new set of orthogonal components which are then re-ordered as a function of their statistical variance. By discarding the low-variance components associated to the spectral noise, one can recover the original data containing only the most relevant information [3740]. This method has recently enabled the spatial mapping of the electronic phases in rare-earth nickelate superlattices to almost atomic resolution, revealing how structural and electronic properties are coupled at the interfaces of these novel, artificially engineered materials [41]. Understanding the coupling length scales has been crucial for harnessing the phase transition in such devices [42]. However, the use of PCA is less convenient to effectively unmix overlapped spectral features since the resulting orthogonal components do not have a physical meaning. To this end, alternative methods have also been developed [4353].

As a technique, STEM can be expected to become even more popular in laboratories across the globe thanks to the continuing advancement of the hardware. Among these advancements, the powerful functionalities of STEM can be further combined with high-stability TEM stages that enable measurement at fixed temperatures from approximately −200°C to 1,000°C and allow in-situ electrical biasing of the TEM specimen while preserving the atomic resolution [54, 55]. In addition, significant improvements in data collection are being made through the development of new generation cameras. In the case of EELS for instance, the signal-to-noise ratio of the acquired spectra has been remarkably enhanced thanks to the advent of direct electron detection cameras which, compared to conventional charge coupled device cameras, offer much better detector quantum efficiency and point-spread function [56, 57]. This will allow, for instance, the scanning dose rate to be significantly reduced, which is critical for beam sensitive materials, and even more subtle fine structure modulations associated to complex lattice, charge or spin orderings to be studied.

Another exciting recent advancement that will play a key role to investigate local structural and electronic modulations in the years to come is pixelated detectors [39, 58]. This new imaging mode, commonly referred to as 4D-STEM, provides a 4-dimensional dataset that is composed by a 2D image where all of its pixels contain an associated 2D electron diffractogram. These large and complex datasets reconstruct local electrostatic fields, charge densities or structural ordering of the imaged crystal. For instance, it has recently been used to reveal the presence of complex magnetic textures emerging in ferroelectric superlattices [59]. This type of technique presents an unprecedented opportunity to study the kind of structure-property relationships that underpin many phase transitions, as has been shown in scanning probe microscopy measurements [60].

Even though these latest advances will give access to a wealth of new information that will be key to better understand phase transitions, new processing tools based on AI or ML methods absolutely must be employed to truly leverage these ever-evolving techniques in a reliable and time-efficient way [61].

Combining these powerful new developments in STEM with the established ability of ML to find patterns in large and complex datasets will be key to both streamlining analysis and detecting correlations between datasets that are vital in addressing fundamental atomic-scale questions about phase transitions in rare earth nickelates and beyond.

Materials Discovery, Analysis and Synthesis

Complementary to the information on the microscopic mechanisms of MITs that can be accessed by AI-assisted STEM-EELS, a global overview of a range of materials and techniques can yield extraordinary novel insights. This can be thought of as a secondary metascale analysis of the firsthand results.

Decades of research across the globe has generated a vast amount of data on MIT and MIT-adjacent materials using a variety of probes. However, a human can still only read through a relatively small number of articles provided by the literature search and the search itself may be biased. Such biases can arise via both the user, through the keywords that they choose to input, and the search system itself, which may prioritise whatever generates the most clicks or only suggest works that are very closely related to those of the scientist performing the search. As a result, direct literature search, while the most common approach, is a rather inefficient and unidimensional way for a scientist to improve their understanding of the relevant field.

To help somewhat, computational databases exist [6266] that compile the outputs of first-principles calculations. However, importantly, and specific to MIT materials in particular, it is often difficult to know how reliable first-principles calculations are in predicting whether a material has an MIT or not due to correlation effects. Also, the fact that DFT is a ground state theory means that even if DFT correctly predicted the insulating ground state of a material, whether it becomes metallic at higher temperatures or not would remain unknown, given current theory. As a result, experimental validation is still required. Experimental databases [6770] also exist but do not include accurate classifications based on transport for MIT materials: for example, Ca2RuO4 is listed as a non-metal on Springer Materials [71].

Natural language processing (NLP), a sub-discipline of ML that can analyse text data, offers a way to bypass these initial biases. First, in a very practical way, by scanning through a much wider part of the literature than humanly possible. Secondly, by identifying key new properties – or materials – associated with a particular class of materials from the literature, usually through a form of similarity score, increasing the range of knowledge available to the scientist [72]. A database, built with the assistance of NLP techniques, identifies around 60 experimentally-confirmed thermally-driven MIT compounds [73]. Expanding this dataset remains difficult: though NLP can assist in finding published work describing MIT materials that are relatively less studied [74, 75], the classification of each material is still done by a human through a deep analysis of each paper. Secondly, many materials may be misclassified either due to materials quality or to limited experimental data, for example the lack of high temperature transport. Further, this database currently only contains thermally-driven MIT materials and not those accessed by e.g., pressure. Even this relatively small dataset is too large and multidimensional for a conventional scientist to be able to discern patterns, making this type of analysis problem ideally suited for ML.

One of the main advantages of machine learning as a tool to understand datasets of MIT materials is that it can look at a wide variety of features at once, and may not have the same biases as a human. For instance, as all theoretical or computational materials studies are based on approximations to quantum effects, it is often tempting to assume that the aspects that are treated most accurately are the most important in driving the physics. Machine learning – as a model-agnostic tool – may be used to remove some of these biases and provide new insight into yet unexplored directions. This may also help overcome some of the limitations inherent in current theoretical studies of MIT materials and may not need the same amount of user input as, for instance, a first principles calculation [7]. ML approaches, for example, using classifiers trained on existing literature [7, 76] can be useful in quickly identifying which materials should be studied in more detail from large databases such as Materials Project [63].

In meeting these challenges some studies have made progress in identifying certain key features of MIT materials such as the rare-earth nickelates [7]. The most important is the transition metal-transition metal distance, which is essential in setting the electronic bandwidth, as well as in determining electronic interaction parameters such as the Hubbard U. The high importance of its interaction with other features, such as the Hubbard U, both highlights the ability of machine learning approaches to gain physical insight and confirms previous theories about the nature of the MIT in an unbiased way. The extraction of previously-underappreciated relevant features, such as Ewald energy, global instability index and average deviation of the atoms’ covalent radii, may provide new directions to understand and tune nickelates and other MIT materials.

Finally, machine learning methods may be used to analyse multiple structures within a particular materials class, and extract relevant information, as has been done in the case of the RNiO3 materials [77].

Even harnessing the power of ML to scrape together a comprehensive dataset and detect the patterns within, MIT materials pose additional challenges. First, the experimental dataset of MIT materials is quite scarce for ML purposes, albeit much larger than what most scientists are normally aware of. Second, this class of materials is very heterogeneous meaning that the materials can have many transition types and mechanisms and it is not clear a priori that a ML model would see them as similar. Furthermore, if each set of compounds is fundamentally different, the scarcity issue, as seen by a ML algorithm, increases in severity. This, however, also presents an opportunity: it may be possible to see similar underlying causes of the MIT, even for materials that seem dissimilar.

Machine learning can also be used to streamline functionality when a particular underlying function and its properties are completely unknown by minimising the number of sampling attempts required to find the global minimum of the function, through Bayesian optimisation (BO) [78]. BO is most useful in cases in which the evaluation of each data point (for example, the synthesis or detailed calculation of a material) is sufficiently expensive, that the computational cost of BO is negligible by comparison [79]. As such, it should prove to be a particularly useful tool in the discovery of new materials [80]. This method, in combination with dimensionality reduction techniques can furthermore be used in the field of MIT materials as well, for example by focusing on a particular materials family, as has been done on the lacunar spinel family [81].

Once a promising material has been identified, machine learning techniques can be used to accelerate its synthesis. BO techniques have already proven themselves useful in the field of oxide heterostructure growth, significantly lowering the number of samples needed for growth optimisation [82], and are clearly an underused tool in the relatively slow and expensive process of optimizing new materials’ growth via atomic-precision tools such as molecular beam epitaxy. In the direction of bulk material synthesis, NLP combined with neural networks may suggest new synthesizable materials for physical analysis [83]. NLP can then be used to prescribe techniques for the synthesis of new materials [84, 85]. BO and other machine learning tools may help optimise the process [86, 87].

Finally, symbolic regression is an aspect of machine learning that can be used to obtain the functional form of an underlying function. This may be useful to obtain physical insight into the phenomenology of materials of interest, such as in the case of relevant energy landscapes describing MIT and MIT-related materials [17, 88].

Machine learning is therefore a valuable ally in every step of the materials-by-design process, from accessing atomic-scale information of already-known MIT materials such as rare earth nickelates, to synthesis conditions and properties of known, and as-yet unstudied MIT materials to finally, discovery of completely new materials. With this new power, we can understand and control the MIT, which is essential for implementation in devices. Figure 1 summarises the continual feedback and reinforcement between fundamental physics and device implementation taking the rare earth nickelates as example materials where ML assists in the nanoscale and metascale analysis of materials.

FIGURE 1
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FIGURE 1. Summary of the influence of machine learning on atomic scale and metascale analysis of MIT materials. The EEL spectra and STEM image are adapted from reference 40. The clustering sketch shows that with a good choice of features (here called Metric A and Metric B) and enough data points extracted from firsthand results, correlations can be uncovered providing new understanding or guiding new materials discovery. Together, the MIT can be better-controlled and these materials can provide new neuromorphic computing architectures using resistive switching. These architectures are in turn expected to significantly contribute to deep-learning applications.

Phase Transitions for Neuromorphic Computing

One exciting area currently being developed involves building up MIT material elements to support neural networks, a technique that mimics aspects of how the brain learns to find patterns and relationships in data, and which is a key part of the ML landscape that helped to glean so much insight into the materials in the first place.

The current approach to artificial intelligence is based on software running on conventional computers, not designed or optimised for such a task. Corporations such as Intel [89] or IBM [90] have embarked on ambitious projects that circumvent this limitation by implementing hardware-based elements that resemble the electrical characteristics of biological neural networks, an approach known as neuromorphic computing. But these efforts are based on traditional CMOS transistor technology [91], not developed for this purpose. This necessitates neuronal or synaptic elements to be comprised of dozens of components, compromising scalability and efficiency.

A solution to this problem is “neuromorphic materials” that have intrinsic properties that directly mimic neurons and synapses [92]. Several approaches have been proposed to this end, based on diverse phenomenology such as spin-torque transfer [93] or optically active materials [94]. But arguably the most advanced approach is based on resistive switching, a phenomenon in which the resistance of a material can be modified by applying an electric field [92]. There are two basic types of resistive switching: non-volatile and volatile. The origins of the two types are very different.

In non-volatile resistive switching, the material becomes conducting after a voltage is applied and the resistance after the voltage is removed does not recover its initial value. The system keeps a memory of the switching event, behaviour that resembles that of synapses. Non-volatile resistive switching is observed in almost every oxide, and in most cases it is caused by the drift of ions - especially oxygen - under strong electric fields [95], although an alternative mechanism based on electrostriction has also been reported for several Mott insulators such as Cr-doped V2O3 [96] or compounds of the AM4X8 family (A = Ga,Ge; M = V,Nb,Ta; X = S,Se) [97]. Non-volatile effects are well-documented in both binary transition metal oxides as well as rare earth nickelate devices [98102], making them good candidates for implementing artificial synapses. Still, fundamental questions regarding the nature of non-volatile switching in the RNiO3 compounds, such as its bulk/interfacial character or the use of other mobile ion species, remain open.

Volatile resistive switching, on the other hand, has been far less studied. It is observed in many materials that have an MIT such as VO2, V2O3, and NbO2 [92] and the rare-earth nickelates NdNiO3 [103], SmNiO3 [104] and Sm0.6Nd0.4NiO3 [105]. Upon the application of a voltage, the system is driven from the insulating into the metallic state, returning to its insulating phase when the voltage goes back to zero, mimicking the behaviour of neurons [106]. The origin and mechanism of this electrically-induced transition are still under study [107, 108]. Most literature regarding the electrically-triggered MIT has been done in vanadium or niobium oxides, with very few works on the rare earth nickelates. Topics such as the triggering mechanism, filament formation or the emulation of neuronal spiking patterns [109111], which are well documented for oxides such as VO2, have not been explored at all for RNiO3, offering a broad field of research opportunities.

Rare earth nickelates - as well as other oxides with an MIT - are thus a rather unique class of materials. They feature both non-volatile and volatile resistive switching, meaning that both synaptic and neuronal behaviour could be implemented in a single platform, opening the possibility of fully oxide-based scalable neural networks.

Conclusion

Much more needs to be learned about resistive switching in MIT materials such as rare earth nickelates before all-oxide neural networks can be achieved, from a fundamental perspective but also from a device development standpoint. Aiding in this endeavour is the knowledge-base currently being constructed from the picoscale upwards via advances in probes of condensed matter systems such as STEM and from the metascale downwards through compilations and analyses of databases. In both of these approaches machine learning is already playing a key role and will be even more invaluable as datasets expand and measurements push the cutting edge. Machine learning can, and should, play a role in the continued discovery, study and synthesis of new materials.

These big prospects and challenges are sure to maintain an active and exciting research panorama for many years to come.

Data Availability Statement

The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary Material, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.

Author Contributions

All authors contributed to manuscript revision, read, and approved the submitted version.

Funding

JF and BM acknowledge support by the Swiss National Science Foundation through Division II project 200020\_179155. JV thanks the Swiss National Science Foundation for an Ambizione Fellowship (#PZ00P2_185848). ABG was funded in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), U.S. Department of Energy, under Award Number DE-AR0001209. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Adrien Teurtrie and Jean-Marc Triscone for helpful feedback on the manuscript, James Rondinelli for discussion, and Xavier Ravinet for assistance with the figure.

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Keywords: machine learning, rare-earth nickelates, artificial intelligence, resistive switching, neuromorphic computing, metal-insulator transitions, scanning transmission elctron microscopy

Citation: Fowlie J, Georgescu AB, Mundet B, del Valle J and Tückmantel P (2021) Machines for Materials and Materials for Machines: Metal-Insulator Transitions and Artificial Intelligence. Front. Phys. 9:725853. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2021.725853

Received: 15 June 2021; Accepted: 29 November 2021;
Published: 15 December 2021.

Edited by:

Le Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), United States

Reviewed by:

Daniele Preziosi, UMR7504 Institut de physique et chimie des matériaux de Strasbourg, France
Han Wang, Applied Materials, United States

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