Relationship between Structure and Dynamics of an Icosahedral Quasicrystal using Unsupervised Machine Learning

Edwin A. Bedolla-Montiel; Marjolein Dijkstra; Susana Mar\'in-Aguilar

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Relationship between Structure and Dynamics of an Icosahedral Quasicrystal using Unsupervised Machine Learning

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Pith's one-line read Unsupervised learning on bond-orientational order shows that in a model 3D icosahedral quasicrystal, ordered local environments suppress self-diffusion while low-order environments enable collective motion.

desk verdict Solid UML structural classification of a 3D icosahedral quasicrystal, but the headline structure–dynamics correlation rests on a temperature-trend comparison rather than a per-particle test. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.15731 v1 pith:EEWJUV3R submitted 2025-07-21 cond-mat.soft

Edwin A. Bedolla-Montiel , Susana Marín-Aguilar , Marjolein Dijkstra This is my paper · ORCID

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keywords icosahedralquasicrystalunsupervisedmachinelearningbondorientationalorderparametersUMAPGaussianmixturemodelself-diffusiondynamicheterogeneityphasondynamics

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A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper argues that in a one-component model system that self-assembles into an icosahedral quasicrystal, the local environment around each particle, classified automatically by unsupervised machine learning from bond-orientational order parameters, controls how that particle moves. Training a UMAP and Gaussian mixture pipeline on fluid and quasicrystal configurations yields three quasicrystal classes: low-coordination precursors, pentagon-network sites, and icosahedral or dodecahedral clusters. As temperature rises, the low-coordination class grows while the high-coordination class shrinks, and this shift tracks a crossover from vibrationally restricted, phason-like motion to collective, heterogeneous diffusion. The paper concludes that high structural order suppresses self-diffusion and dynamical heterogeneity, whereas low-order regions enable collective rearrangements, giving a quantitative structure-dynamics link for three-dimensional quasicrystals. If correct, this machine-learned order parameter could replace hand-built symmetry assumptions for characterizing quasicrystalline order and its coupling to dynamics.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the machine-learned order parameter px, the fraction of particles assigned to each of three structural classes A, B, and C identified by an unsupervised pipeline. The features are averaged bond-orientational order parameters with angular momentum indices from 2 to 12; UMAP projects the eleven-dimensional feature vectors to two dimensions, and a Gaussian mixture model with four components assigns each particle to a phase or environment class. The classes are not imposed by symmetry assumptions but emerge from the data, and their temperature-dependent fractions provide the quantitative bridge between local structure and self-diffusion, dynamical heterogeneity, and the crossover from phason-like collective flips to activated diffusion.

What would settle it

Compute, at one reduced temperature in the stable quasicrystal range, the per-particle displacement over the plateau-to-diffusive time window and sort the particles by their machine-learned class at the start of that window; if class A particles are not systematically more mobile than class B and C particles, the claim that local structure controls dynamics is falsified. This test can be run on the trajectory data already used for the mean-square displacement analysis, which the paper does not analyze by class.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that the local structural environment of a particle in the three-dimensional icosahedral quasicrystal, as automatically classified by an unsupervised machine-learning pipeline, is the controlling variable for its dynamical behavior. Three classes emerge from averaged bond-orientational order parameters projected by UMAP and clustered with a Gaussian mixture model trained on quasicrystal configurations at three temperatures plus a fluid sample: class A has low coordination and contains pentagonal precursors, class B contains strongly correlated pentagon networks that form Penrose-like tilings, and class C contains icosahedral and dodecahedral clusters. On the dynamics side, the mean-square displacement shows a plateau followed by a diffusive rise, with two Arrhenius regimes characterized by activation energies of 1.12 and 3.92 in thermal units, and the non-Gaussian parameter displays a peak whose inverse scales linearly with the diffusion coefficient. The structure-dynamics link is made through the temperature-dependent class fractions: at low temperature the ordered classes dominate and diffusion is suppressed, while as temperature rises the low-order class grows to more than half the particles and collective, heterogeneous motion appears. The paper reads this as evidence that high local structural order suppresses self-diffusion while low-order regions enable collective rearrangements, establishing a structure-dynamics order parameter for three-dimensional quasicrystals.

Load-bearing premise

The paper reads the temperature dependence of the class fractions as if it were a spatial correlation between local structure and particle mobility, but it never measures how far particles of each class actually move at a single temperature; if that fixed-temperature correlation is absent, the central claim that ordered classes suppress diffusion would collapse.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

The machine-learned order parameter can separate the quasicrystal, fluid, amorphous, and face-centered-cubic phases from local structural data alone, and it can resolve internal quasicrystal environments without pre-specified symmetry axes.
The early rise of the low-coordination class during cooling and compression identifies pentagonal motifs as precursors to quasicrystal formation, while the high-coordination classes appear only after the sharp fluid-to-quasicrystal transition.
The two activation-energy regimes in the self-diffusion coefficient support a crossover from phason-assisted motion at low temperature to activated collective motion at higher temperature, with the linear relation between diffusion and the inverse peak of the non-Gaussian parameter connecting heterogeneity to mobility.
The framework is transferable to other quasicrystalline symmetries and to confined colloidal supraparticles, where the same structural classes could track stability and dynamics.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The paper's 'regions' language is an extrapolation: the class fractions are bulk temperature-dependent quantities, not per-particle mobilities measured within a single state point, so a direct fixed-temperature test would be needed to confirm spatial structure-dynamics causality.
The Gaussian mixture is fixed to four components by construction, so the three quasicrystal classes may partly reflect that choice; varying the number of components would show whether classes B and C are physically distinct environments or artifacts of overfitting.
The low-order class that grows with temperature resembles the 'softness' variable used to predict dynamics in glass-forming liquids, and formally connecting these two order parameters could unify quasicrystal and glassy structure-dynamics phenomenology.
Because the interaction potential is generic, with two competing length scales, the same pipeline could be applied to photonic, soft-matter, or other aperiodic systems to test whether the ranking of structural classes by mobility is universal.

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Quick take: this paper gives a usable unsupervised-learning classification of local environments in a 3D one-component icosahedral quasicrystal, and the formation story is plausible. But the headline claim—that specific structural classes control dynamics—is not actually demonstrated as written. Section VII compares temperature-dependent class fractions px(T) with bulk diffusion D(T) across temperatures (Fig. 10). That is an ecological correlation. The paper never conditions per-particle displacements, van Hove functions, or cage-break counts on UML class at fixed temperature. So the abstract's "regions with high structural order correlate with suppressed self-diffusion" is an inference from bulk trends, not a measured statement about spatial regions. The authors even hedge in Section VII with "If this hypothesis holds," then the Conclusions restate it as a finding. That gap is the main thing to fix.

What is genuinely new and good: applying the Boattini-style BOP+UMAP+GMM pipeline to a 3D one-component IQC and identifying three local environments—class A as low-coordination precursors, class B as pentagonal/Penrose-like motifs, class C as icosahedral/dodecahedral clusters—is a real extension beyond the 2D systems studied before. The time-resolved px evolution during cooling-compression, showing class A emerging first and B/C following the sharp transition, is interesting and connects naturally to the two-step nucleation literature. The diffusion analysis with two Arrhenius regimes and the alpha2(t) dynamic-heterogeneity characterization is competent, if not revolutionary. The hyperparameter details in Appendix B are honestly reported.

Soft spots, in proportion. First, the GMM component count is fixed at four because four phases are expected, so the "three IQC classes" are partly imposed by that choice. The classes may still be meaningful, but the paper should test sensitivity to k and show the classes are stable. Second, the classifier is trained on configurations at T = 0.1, 0.22, 0.3 plus fluid, and then px is evaluated at those same temperatures, making the px(T) trend somewhat self-referential. Third, there are minor internal errors: the activation energy is quoted in units of kBT instead of epsilon, Fig. 9's caption and text disagree about whether alpha_max increases or decreases with temperature, and Fig. 9b's axis label says time at maximum while the text discusses inverse alpha_max^2. These are fixable but should be cleaned before publication.

Who this is for: people working on quasicrystal structure and formation with machine learning, and soft-matter simulators interested in structure–dynamics links. I would send it to peer review—there is enough new structural content and a clear question—but I would insist on either adding a direct per-particle structure–dynamics test at fixed temperature or substantially toning down the abstract and title. The structural classification and formation results are likely robust; the central dynamics claim is not yet supported.

Referee Report

2 major / 5 minor

Summary. The manuscript studies a one-component model system with an oscillating pair potential that self-assembles into an icosahedral quasicrystal (IQC), using molecular dynamics simulations and unsupervised machine learning. The authors characterize the phase behavior via equations of state, radial distribution functions, and diffraction patterns; classify local environments with averaged bond-orientational order parameters followed by UMAP dimensionality reduction and Gaussian mixture modeling; track the appearance of UML classes during cooling-compression formation; and analyze dynamics through the mean-square displacement, self-diffusion coefficient, and non-Gaussian parameter across temperatures. Section VII attempts to connect structure and dynamics by comparing the temperature dependence of class fractions px(T) with bulk diffusion, and the abstract claims that regions of high structural order suppress diffusion while lower-order regions enhance collective motion and dynamical heterogeneity. The manuscript's main quantitative claim therefore rests on the temperature dependence of class populations, not on a direct per-particle spatial correlation between class membership and mobility at fixed temperature.

Significance. If the structure-dynamics relation were established at fixed temperature, the UML classes would constitute a valuable local structural order parameter for three-dimensional IQCs, extending previous two-dimensional quasicrystal studies and connecting phason-like dynamics to specific local motifs. The paper has solid components: long equilibration and production runs, a clear formation-time series, explicit UMAP and GMM hyperparameters in Appendix B, and informative visualizations of pentagonal, icosahedral, and dodecahedral environments. The unsupervised classification of phases and the two-regime diffusion picture are plausible and useful. However, the central claim, as stated in the abstract and conclusions, is not yet supported because the only structure-dynamics comparison is an aggregate temperature trend; the significance of the paper depends on completing the missing fixed-temperature per-particle test.

major comments (2)

[VII (Fig. 10); Abstract] The paper's central claim—that local UML classes correspond to regions with distinct mobility—is not directly tested. Section VII only computes the global class fractions px(T) and compares their temperature trends with the bulk diffusion coefficient D(T). Both quantities are monotone functions of T in the range shown, so the association in Fig. 10 is an ecological correlation that would also hold if class membership had zero predictive power for individual particle motion. No per-particle observable (per-class MSD, van Hove function, cage-break counts, or conditional non-Gaussian parameter) is computed at any fixed temperature. The text itself hedges with "If this hypothesis holds" when interpreting class A as collective motion, but the Abstract and Conclusions restate the structure-dynamics relation as a finding. A direct per-particle test at one or more state points is required to support the claimed "regions" correlation.
[IV and Appendix B] The number of Gaussian components is fixed to four because four phases are expected in the input dataset, and the UMAP projection uses n_neighbors=100 and min_dist=0. Consequently, the "discovery" of exactly three IQC classes is partly imposed by the chosen k=4 (one component for fluid, three for IQC); the paper does not show that the three classes persist under model selection (BIC/AIC) or under variation of k and the UMAP hyperparameters. In addition, the UML model is trained on IQC configurations at kBT/epsilon=0.1, 0.22, and 0.3 together with a fluid at 0.4, and Section VII then evaluates px(T) over the same temperature interval, so the px(T) trend is partly self-referential. An out-of-sample evaluation (e.g., train on 0.1 and 0.3, predict 0.2) or an independent per-temperature clustering would substantially strengthen the structural classification and the temperature dependence derived from it.

minor comments (5)

[VI A, Eq. (8)] The reported activation energies "Delta E = 1.12(1) kBT" and "Delta E = 3.92(2) kBT" are dimensionally inconsistent, since kBT is temperature-dependent; they should be expressed in units of epsilon (or another fixed energy scale).
[VI B and Fig. 9] The Fig. 9 caption states that the non-Gaussian parameter increases with temperature, reaches a maximum at kBT/epsilon=0.2, and then decreases, while the text in Section VI B states that both tau_alpha,max and the peak value of alpha_2 decrease with increasing temperature; these statements need to be reconciled.
[Fig. 10] Figure 10 shows no error bars or block-averaged uncertainties for px; since single long trajectories are used, bootstrapped or block estimates would help judge whether the differences at adjacent temperatures are significant.
[Appendix B] The appendix reports that smaller n_neighbors produced "no significant changes" but does not show the comparison; a robustness figure or table for the UMAP/GMM parameters would make the classification easier to trust.
[General] There is a duplicate "DATA AVAILABILITY" section after Appendix B, and typographical errors such as "quasicrytals" in Section II B, "the the system" in Section VII, and "occured" in Appendix A should be corrected.

Circularity Check

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Partial circularity in the UML class count: the number of GMM components is fixed to the expected number of phases, so the 'three IQC classes' are partly imposed by construction; the dynamics correlation itself is an ecological inference, not a constructed result.

fitted input called prediction [Section IV and Appendix B (GMM clustering of UMAP-projected BOPs)]
"Given the four phases present in our input dataset, we set the number of components in the mixture model to four. ... The clustering procedure reveals three distinct classes within the quasicrystal, shown in Fig. 5b-5d, in addition to the fluid phase."

The number of GMM components is a user-supplied input set to four because the dataset contains fluid, IQC, amorphous, and FCC phases. With one component necessarily absorbing the fluid cluster, the remaining three components can partition the IQC configurations into at most three classes. The paper presents the appearance of 'three distinct classes within the quasicrystal' as an unsupervised discovery, but the count of classes is fixed by the chosen k, not freely revealed by the data. This makes the three-class taxonomy partly an artifact of the input parameter.

full rationale

The strongest potential circularity is the GMM component count: the paper explicitly sets k=4 to match the four expected phases, so the observation of three IQC classes plus one fluid class is, in part, a direct consequence of that choice. This is a genuine constructional issue in the structural-classification claim. However, the paper is transparent about this choice, and the class content is derived from BOP descriptors that are independent of any dynamical observable. The central structure-dynamics claim in Section VII is not a definitional reduction: px(T) is computed from static structural classes, while D and alpha2(t) are computed from particle trajectories, and no equation or fitting procedure forces their correlation. What is missing is a per-particle test at fixed temperature: the paper compares temperature trends in bulk class fractions with temperature trends in bulk diffusion, so the abstract's 'regions ... correlate with suppressed self-diffusion' is an ecological inference rather than a demonstrated per-particle correlation. The text itself hedges with 'If this hypothesis holds' before suggesting that class A encodes collective motion, yet the Conclusions restate the hypothesis as a finding; this is a correctness and inference limitation, not a circularity. Self-citations to prior UML work by some of the same authors (Refs. 25, 39) are methodological and not load-bearing for the dynamics conclusion. Overall, the derivation does not reduce entirely to its inputs, but the three-class 'discovery' is partly imposed by construction, giving a partial circularity score of 4.

Assumptions & free parameters 5 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new physical entities are introduced. The UML classes are data-driven categories rather than postulated particles, forces, or dimensions. The main ledger items are user-chosen ML hyperparameters and the fitted activation energies.

free parameters (5)

GMM number of components = 4
Number of Gaussian components fixed by the authors to the expected number of phases (4). For the IQC-local analysis, 4 components are again used (fluid + 3 classes), so the number of discovered classes is imposed rather than emergent.
UMAP hyperparameters = n_neighbors=100, min_dist=0
Authors report min_dist strongly influences cluster resolution; the choice min_dist=0 produces compact clusters and directly shapes the class structure.
Activation energy, low-temperature regime = 1.12(1) epsilon (text says kBT, likely typo)
Fitted from the Arrhenius relation for D(T) in the low-temperature branch (Fig. 7b).
Activation energy, high-temperature regime = 3.92(2) epsilon (text says kBT, likely typo)
Fitted from the high-temperature branch of D(T).
Coordination cutoff rc = 1.1 sigma
Used to compute coordination numbers assigned to classes A, B, C; not the same as the BOP neighbor count of 12.

assumptions (4)

domain assumption Bond orientational order parameters with l=2..12, averaged over 12 nearest neighbors, provide sufficient information to distinguish IQC local environments.
Sec. II.C. The 12-neighbor averaging assumes a well-defined local shell across all phases.
domain assumption The pair potential of Eq. 1 (from Engel et al. 2015) faithfully produces a stable one-component IQC over the studied T,P range.
Sec. II.A; all conclusions inherit the fidelity of the model to real quasicrystals.
domain assumption UMAP embedding preserves structural distinction, i.e., Euclidean distances in the 2D embedding reflect structural similarity.
UMAP is a heuristic manifold-learning method; the authors rely on it to separate phases and classes without quantifying distortion.
domain assumption Gaussian mixture model with full covariance and k-means++ seeding is an appropriate model for the distribution of embedded BOP vectors.
Sec. IV, Appendix B; assumes each structural class is one Gaussian in UMAP space.

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We present a comprehensive study of the structure, formation, and dynamics of a one-component model system that self-assembles into an icosahedral quasicrystal (IQC). Using molecular dynamics simulations combined with unsupervised machine learning techniques, we identify and characterize the unique structural motifs of IQCs, including icosahedral and dodecahedral arrangements, and quantify the evolution of local environments during the IQC formation process. Our analysis reveals that the formation of the IQC is driven by the emergence of distinct local clusters that serve as precursors to the fully developed quasicrystalline phase. Additionally, we examine the dynamics of the system across a range of temperatures, identifying transitions from vibrationally restricted motion to activated diffusion, and uncovering signatures of dynamic heterogeneity inherent to the quasicrystalline state. To directly connect structure and dynamics, we use a machine-learning-based order parameter to quantify the presence of distinct local environments across temperatures. We find that regions with high structural order, as captured by specific machine-learned classes, correlate with suppressed self-diffusion and minimal dynamical heterogeneity, consistent with phason-like motion within the IQC. In contrast, regions with lower structural order exhibit enhanced collective motion and increased dynamical heterogeneity. These results establish a quantitative framework for understanding the coupling between structural organization and dynamical processes in quasicrystals, providing new insights into the mechanisms governing IQC stability and dynamics.

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**Figure 2.** FIG. 2. Equations of state at temperature [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** FIG. 3. Phases observed for a system of particles interacting via the potential described in Eq. 1, along with their corresponding radial [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗

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**Figure 4.** Figure 4: FIG. 4. Dimensionality reduction and clustering of the icosahedral [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png]

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: FIG. 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png]

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: FIG. 6. Time evolution of the fraction of particles belonging to a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png]

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: FIG. 8. Single-particle trajectories in the icosahedral quasicrys [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png]

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: FIG. 10. Fraction of particles belonging to a specific class [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_10.png]

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: b) we observe a linear relationship between the diffusion coefficient and the inverse of α max 2 , further linking the extent of dynamical heterogeneity to particle mobility in the system. This trend is commonly observed in glass-forming materials47,48,50, suggesting …

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: FIG. 11. Formation of the icosahedral quasicrystal by starting at a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_11.png]

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