A self-evolving agent for explainable diagnosis of DFT-experiment band-gap mismatch

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26703v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:11:03 GMT
• Title: A self-evolving agent for explainable diagnosis of DFT-experiment band-gap mismatch
• Abstract summary: We introduce XDFT, a closed-loop agent that diagnoses the mismatch automatically.<n>On a verified benchmark of 124 materials, XDFT identifies a resolving mechanism for 70 of 90 mismatch cases.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Standard density functional theory (DFT) routinely misclassifies the electronic ground state of correlated and structurally complex compounds, predicting metallic behaviour for materials that experiments report as semiconductors. Each such mismatch encodes a specific non-ideality -- magnetic ordering, electron correlation, an alternative polymorph, or a defect -- that the calculation excluded, but extracting that signal at scale has remained a manual exercise. Here we introduce XDFT, a closed-loop agent that diagnoses the mismatch automatically: it draws candidate hypotheses from a curated catalogue, executes the corresponding first-principles tests, and updates a global Bayesian posterior over hypothesis usefulness from each verdict. On a verified benchmark of 124 materials, XDFT identifies a resolving mechanism for 70 of 90 mismatch cases (78\%), an order of magnitude above a uniform-random baseline (19\%) and a static LLM ordering (20\%). The internal posterior aligns with empirical performance over the benchmark timeline, and resolved cases collapse into a tri-partite element-class taxonomy that we distil into a four-line static rule. Each diagnosed material is returned with a corrected protocol and a mechanistic attribution; failed cases are flagged as evidence-backed targets for experimental re-examination.

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