Germanene-like defects in amorphous germanium revealed by three-dimensional visualization of high-resolution pair-distribution functions
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Abstract
The structural description of even the most basic monatomic amorphous materials is under considerable debate. In this work, an intuitive computational technique has been developed to construct three-dimensional statistical density maps to directly visualize local atomic structure of amorphous germanium (a-Ge), enabling the interpretation of recent state-of-the-art experiments and simulations. The continuous random network (CRN) model is compared to our experimental model refined through a Reverse Monte Carlo routine. In this refinement a-Ge has two dominant structures: a fourfold coordinated tetrahedron and a buckled threefold coordinated local structure similar to silicene and germanene. These structures account for 95.7% of the total atoms in a 5:2 ratio respectively. Our method shows well defined structural ordering in the second shell of a-Ge. This novel visualization tool enables the interpretation of complex disordered materials and reveals the bimodal structures of a-Ge.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".