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Out of the scalar sand box

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With the extension of a popular computational method to its tensorial analogue, structural configurations that optimize anisotropic physical quantities can now be predicted.

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Figure 1: Binary atomic configurations.
Figure 2: Illustration of how the tensorial cluster expansion can be used in practical materials design problems.

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