The Helmholtz Young Investigator Group DataMat wants to turn fundamental insights about new states of matter into materials with properties that were thought to be impossible before. The group pursues a “hidden” order amongst disorder, that is, systems that seem to be random but that are homogeneous like crystals at large distances. Such systems look the same in every direction like a liquid; globally, however, they suppress density fluctuations like a crystal. Such a “new state of matter” endows materials with unique properties, like an isotropic loss-less transport of waves. The project DataMat now wants to combine such fundamental insights into novel types of order and disorder with the possibilities opened-up by the recent progress in machine learning. Prerequisites, however, are safe and reliable predictions and an uncertainty quantification that allows for a statistical analysis of highly-correlated, large-scale spatial structures. Moreover, such a “hidden order” puts fundamental limitations of machine learning to the test.
Contribution Institute for AI Safety and Security
The Helmholtz Young Investigators Group is a joint project of two DLR institutes, the Institute of AI Safety and Security and the Institute of Materials Physics in Space. Its partner university is the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, and the group also closely collaborates with Princeton University (USA).
