Chemical potentials from structure factors: II. Charged multi-component mixtures
arXiv:2608.30060
2026
Regularization
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What the math gives to ML
The paper provides a constructive separation of long-wavelength composition fluctuations from forbidden macroscopic charge fluctuations in charged mixtures. Its transferable asset is a covariance and structure-factor representation in which neutral composition modes have finite small-wavenumber susceptibility, while the charge mode is suppressed by electroneutrality and Coulomb correlations, typically with a charge structure factor proportional to k squared. This can become a physics-informed regularizer and hard projection for neural fields or generative models that predict multicomponent concentration fields, preventing unphysical global charge drift while preserving chemically meaningful neutral fluctuations.
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2026
For a neural network predicting A coupled concentration or density fields, decompose Fourier-space fluctuations into a charge direction and its charge-neutral composition subspace. Hard-project the predicted fields to eliminate the global charge mode, and regularize their low-wavenumber covariance so that neutral modes retain finite susceptibility while the charge structure factor follows the Coulombic suppression S_ZZ(k) proportional to k squared. This should improve long-range physical…
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