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- Title
Bayesian method for the analysis of diffraction patterns using BLAND.
- Authors
Lesniewski, Joseph E.; Disseler, Steven M.; Quintana, Dylan J.; Kienzle, Paul A.; Ratcliff, William D.
- Abstract
Rietveld refinement of X-ray and neutron diffraction patterns is routinely used to solve crystal and magnetic structures of organic and inorganic materials over many length scales. Despite its success over the past few decades, conventional Rietveld analysis suffers from tedious iterative methodologies, and the unfortunate consequence of many least-squares algorithms discovering local minima that are not the most accurate solutions. Bayesian methods which allow the explicit encoding of a priori knowledge pose an attractive alternative to this approach by enhancing the ability to determine the correlations between parameters and to provide a more robust method for model selection. Global approaches also avoid the divergences and local minima often encountered by practitioners of the traditional Rietveld technique. The goal of this work is to demonstrate the effectiveness of an automated Bayesian algorithm for Rietveld refinement of neutron diffraction patterns in the solution of crystallographic and magnetic structures. A new software package, BLAND (Bayesian library for analyzing neutron diffraction data), based on the Markov-Chain Monte Carlo minimization routine, is presented. The benefits of such an approach are demonstrated through several examples and compared with traditional refinement techniques.
- Subjects
X-ray diffraction; BAYESIAN analysis; RIETVELD refinement; NEUTRON diffraction crystallography; MAGNETIC structure
- Publication
Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2016, Vol 49, Issue 6, p2201
- ISSN
0021-8898
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1107/S1600576716016423