Table 4 Nested sampling parameters in the notation of ref. 41 for constant composition and sGC NS runs.

From: Machine-learned interatomic potentials for alloys and alloy phase diagrams

Parameter

Constant

 
 

Compos.

sGC

Total number of particles N

96

64

Number of configurations K

1080

1152

Number of evaluations per walk L

640

1166

Positions steps (number × length)

3 × 8

1 × 8

Cell steps (volume:shear:stretch)

3:3:3

16:8:8

Swap steps

6

8

Composition steps

0

8

  1. sGC semi-grand canonical.
  2. Swap steps exchange the species of a pair of atoms, while composition steps change the species of a single atom (sGC only).