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Mustafa Kurban

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arxivcs.LGphysics.chem-phphysics.comp-phquant-ph2026-07-19

Grounded verification of chemical and materials reasoning: detection is the bottleneck

Can Polat, Mustafa Kurban, Erchin Serpedin, Hasan Kurban

Large language models confabulate chemical objects (molecular formulas, space groups, formation energies) in fluent reasoning traces, concentrated on long-tail entities where confidence is least trustworthy. Deterministic, database-grounded verification can catch and repair such…

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arxivcs.LGcond-mat.mtrl-sciphysics.atom-phphysics.opticsquant-ph2026-06-28

STEMGym: Benchmarking Sequential Decision-Making under Dose Budgets in Autonomous Electron Microscopy

Can Polat, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban, Hasan Kurban

A central premise of autonomous scientific imaging is that smarter navigation, whether Bayesian, RL-based, or otherwise adaptive, is the principal lever for sample-efficient acquisition. We present evidence to the contrary in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), an a…

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arxivphysics.chem-phcond-mat.mtrl-scics.LG2026-06-28

Geometric Algebra Meets Cartesian Tensors: Higher-Order Equivariance for Interatomic Potentials

Can Polat, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban, Hasan Kurban

$\mathrm{Cl}(3,0)$ interatomic potentials, despite their algebraic elegance, predict force magnitudes accurately but force directions poorly. Across ten rMD17 molecules, every $L \leq 1$ baseline in our twelve-model study attains aggregate force-cosine similarity below $0.25$. Th…

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