Modeling high-entropy transition-metal alloys with alchemical compression: dataset HEA25

Alloys composed of several elements in roughly equimolar composition, often referred to as high-entropy alloys, have long been of interest for their thermodynamics and peculiar mechanical properties, and more recently for their potential application in catalysis. They are a considerable challenge to traditional atomistic modeling, and also to data-driven potentials that for the most part have memory footprint, computational effort and data requirements which scale poorly with the number of elements included. We apply a recently proposed scheme to compress chemical information in a lower-dimensional space, which reduces dramatically the cost of the model with negligible loss of accuracy, to build a potential that can describe 25 d-block transition metals. The model shows semi-quantitative accuracy for prototypical alloys and is remarkably stable when extrapolating to structures outside its training set. In this record, we provide a dataset containing 25,000 structures utilized for fitting the aforementioned potential, with a focus on 25 d-block transition metals, excluding Tc, Cd, Re, Os and Hg.