feature/SOF-8065 Feature: SE for graphene on SiO2, doping and gap at the Dirac point

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Adds the simulation notebook for graphene on O-terminated α-quartz SiO₂(0001) — the band structure of
the interface, with the doping and the gap at the Dirac point printed beside Kang, Kang & Chang,
Phys. Rev. B 78, 115404 (2008), Sec. III and Fig. 3(a) — and makes the structure notebook build
the paper's metastable geometry.

SOF-8065. Documentation side: mat3ra/documentation#414.

Notebooks

interface_2d_3d_graphene_silicon_dioxide.ipynb (structure):

• the save cell imported download_content_to_file from mat3ra.notebooks_utils.material, which no
  longer exports it; it now imports from mat3ra.notebooks_utils.io;
• SUBSTRATE_THICKNESS = 5: one layer is one conventional quartz cell (three Si planes), so 15 Si
  planes against the manuscript's 14 SiO₂ bilayers;
• INTERFACE_VACUUM = 17.5: about 20 Å above graphene, as in the manuscript (the builder also puts
  INTERFACE_DISTANCE above the film);
• REGISTRY_SHIFT: graphene shifted in-plane to the manuscript's metastable registry — one surface O
  0.354 Å from a C, the other 0.35 Å from a hexagon centre. As built, both O sat 0.43 Å from a C,
  the start that forms C–O bonds on relaxation (Fig. 1(b));
• the cell is put in the 120° hexagonal setting (so the band path's K is graphene's K) and centered
  along z.

interface_2d_3d_graphene_silicon_dioxide_SIMULATION.ipynb — new. One band-structure job: LDA (pz),
GBRV ultrasoft 40/200 Ry, 6×6×1, path K–Γ–M–K; the Dirac pair at K read by band index from the
electron count. RELAX = False (default) reads the band structure of the structure as built.
RELAX = True adds a fixed-cell relaxation of all atoms to 0.03 eV/Å (Sec. II) in front of the band
structure, in the same job (workflow.add_relaxation()). The last cell prints our values beside the
paper's.

Introduction.ipynb — the Graphene/SiO₂ row's Simulation column.

Results

	Kang et al. 2008	RELAX = False (default)	after 5 relaxation steps
doping	p-type	p-type	p-type
E_D − E_F	+1.28 eV	+1.171 eV	+1.179 eV
gap at K	0.130 eV	0.062 eV	0.071 eV

Kang's E_D − E_F is the midpoint of the two Dirac bands at K on Fig. 3(a) (+1.21 and +1.35 eV).
RELAX = True did not converge within the 4 h TIME_LIMIT on OR/16 (5 BFGS steps, force still
falling, job 25yp4K2SMNJgJMmBy). The last column is the band structure of that partially relaxed
structure (job domjmuR4659Rj8np5): the gap grows as the O under the hexagon moves toward a C, the
paper's mechanism.

Differences from the paper

Bare Si on the back side — the face Kang p.2 calls chemically inactive — where the paper
H-passivates; quartz a = 5.02 Å (+2.3 % on the paper's 4.91 Å), graphene strained +1.875 %; 15 Si
planes for 14 bilayers; GBRV ultrasoft vs VASP at 396 eV; Gaussian smearing 0.01 Ry; no dipole
correction; unrelaxed by default.

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Merging accepts anything left unticked.

• Rendered pw_scf.in: si_pz_gbrv_1.0, o_pz_gbrv_1.2, c_pz_gbrv_1.2, ecutwfc = 40,
  ecutrho = 200, degauss = 0.01, K_POINTS automatic 6 6 1.
• Rendered pw_bands.in: K vertex 0.3333 0.3333 0 in the 120° cell.
• Provenance: Si₁₅O₃₀C₈, 53 atoms, γ = 120.000°, interlayer 2.580 Å, 272 electrons; surface O at
  0.354 / 1.095 Å from the nearest C; about 10 Å of vacuum on each side of the slab.
• Dirac pair at K = bands 136/137, surface-O bands at E_F (job F6AmKDRpQ6nFqiokb).
• RELAX = True end to end: not completed within 4 h on OR/16.

Verified

Run natively against production (seminar org, cluster-001, OR/16): RELAX = False on the shifted
structure, job F6AmKDRpQ6nFqiokb, 61 min, values above.

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The interface notebook updates the graphene/SiO₂ structure. A linked simulation notebook configures and runs a DFT band-structure workflow, then compares the calculated Dirac-point energy and gap with reference values.

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Graphene/SiO₂ Interface Simulation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Interface construction and cell transformation other/materials_designer/specific_examples/interface_2d_3d_graphene_silicon_dioxide.ipynb	The notebook sets the substrate thickness to five conventional cells, changes the vacuum to 17.5 Å, and adds a registry shift. It reports nearest in-plane carbon distances for two oxygen atoms, then transforms and centers the interface cell and prints its atom count and cell parameters.
Simulation setup and job execution other/materials_designer/specific_examples/interface_2d_3d_graphene_silicon_dioxide_SIMULATION.ipynb, other/materials_designer/specific_examples/Introduction.ipynb	The introduction links to the simulation notebook. The notebook configures the interface, compute settings, and DFT workflow. If a matching job is not found, it creates and submits one; it then waits for completion.
Band-structure analysis other/materials_designer/specific_examples/interface_2d_3d_graphene_silicon_dioxide_SIMULATION.ipynb	The notebook displays the band structure and reports the selected Dirac-band pair’s midpoint relative to the Fermi energy and its gap alongside reference values.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Notebook
  participant APIClient
  participant ComputeJob
  Notebook->>APIClient: Initialize client and load interface
  Notebook->>APIClient: Find matching job or create and submit workflow
  APIClient->>ComputeJob: Run submitted workflow
  Notebook->>ComputeJob: Wait for completion
  Notebook->>APIClient: Retrieve band-structure results

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ae1e1

This adds example notebooks. The only established problem is a comment with outdated expected values, which could confuse users. Fix that comment before merging, and consider adding the cell-shape assertion.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ae1e1

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Changed systems: other

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• observed — other (service) was modified; 3 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in other/materials_designer/specific_examples/Introduction.ipynb: The Graphene/SiO₂ interface’s Simulation column now links to its named simulation notebook instead of showing “To be added.”
• observed — Modified behavior in other/materials_designer/specific_examples/interface_2d_3d_graphene_silicon_dioxide.ipynb: The substrate thickness changes from 7 atomic layers to 5 conventional cells along c. Interface vacuum changes from 20.0 Å to 17.5 Å, and REGISTRY_SHIFT is added with value [-1.011, -0.725, 0.0] Å.
• observed — Modified behavior in other/materials_designer/specific_examples/interface_2d_3d_graphene_silicon_dioxide.ipynb: Adds a registry-adjustment section that shifts the interface by REGISTRY_SHIFT, then compares the two highest oxygen atoms with carbon atoms across neighboring in-plane cell translations and prints each oxygen’s nearest in-plane C distance.
• observed — Modified behavior in other/materials_designer/specific_examples/interface_2d_3d_graphene_silicon_dioxide.ipynb: Adds a cell-setting section that applies the specified supercell transformation, centers the interface along z, sets the lattice type to HEX, and prints the atom count, lattice parameter, and γ angle.

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- Around line 97-100: Update the unrelaxed band-structure values in the RELAX
comment to match the final run: report E_D − E_F as +1.115 eV and the gap at K
as 0.044 eV. Also make the reference value consistent between the comment and
KANG_DIRAC_MINUS_FERMI, explicitly identifying whether the shared reference is
1.28 eV or 1.20 eV.

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- Around line 387-392: After setting `interface.lattice.type` to `"HEX"` in the
notebook, assert that the transformed cell has γ approximately 120° and equal a
and b lattice lengths, using tolerances and failure messages that report
unexpected geometry.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the stale values in the RELAX comment.

The comment says the unrelaxed default gives E_D - E_F +1.171 eV and a 0.062 eV gap at K. The PR reports +1.115 eV and 0.044 eV for the same unrelaxed default, using the final commit's run. Users read this comment before they run the job, so the expected values do not match what they will see. Update the numbers. You can also delete them and point to the comparison in section 8.

The reference value has a similar mismatch. KANG_DIRAC_MINUS_FERMI is 1.28 eV, which is the midpoint of the two Dirac bands in Fig. 3(a). The PR description reports a deviation against a 1.20 eV read-off. Use one reference value in both places and state which one it is.

Proposed fix

--- "a/other/materials_designer/specific_examples/interface_2d_3d_graphene_silicon_dioxide_SIMULATION.ipynb"
+++ "b/other/materials_designer/specific_examples/interface_2d_3d_graphene_silicon_dioxide_SIMULATION.ipynb"
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@
     "MY_WORKFLOW_NAME = \"Band Structure\"\n",
     "APPLICATION_NAME = \"espresso\"\n",
     "\n",
-    "# NOTE: False reads the band structure of the structure as built: E_D - E_F +1.171 eV, gap at K\n",
-    "# 0.062 eV, about 1 h on OR/16. True relaxes all atoms at fixed cell to 0.03 eV/Å (Kang et al.\n",
+    "# NOTE: False reads the band structure of the structure as built: E_D - E_F +1.115 eV, gap at K\n",
+    "# 0.044 eV, about 1 h on OR/16. True relaxes all atoms at fixed cell to 0.03 eV/Å (Kang et al.\n",
     "# Sec. II) before the band structure, in the same job; on OR/16 it did 5 BFGS steps in the 4 h\n",
     "# TIME_LIMIT without converging, so it needs a longer TIME_LIMIT.\n",
     "RELAX = False\n",

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	"# NOTE: False reads the band structure of the structure as built: E_D - E_F +1.171 eV, gap at K\n",
	"# 0.062 eV, about 1 h on OR/16. True relaxes all atoms at fixed cell to 0.03 eV/Å (Kang et al.\n",
	"# Sec. II) before the band structure, in the same job; on OR/16 it did 5 BFGS steps in the 4 h\n",
	"# TIME_LIMIT without converging, so it needs a longer TIME_LIMIT.\n",
	"# NOTE: False reads the band structure of the structure as built: E_D - E_F +1.115 eV, gap at K\n",
	"# 0.044 eV, about 1 h on OR/16. True relaxes all atoms at fixed cell to 0.03 eV/Å (Kang et al.\n",
	"# Sec. II) before the band structure, in the same job; on OR/16 it did 5 BFGS steps in the 4 h\n",
	"# TIME_LIMIT without converging, so it needs a longer TIME_LIMIT.\n",

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around lines 97 - 100:
Update the unrelaxed band-structure values in the RELAX comment to match the
final run: report E_D − E_F as +1.115 eV and the gap at K as 0.044 eV. Also make
the reference value consistent between the comment and KANG_DIRAC_MINUS_FERMI,
explicitly identifying whether the shared reference is 1.28 eV or 1.20 eV.

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Verify that the HEX relabel matches the transformed cell.

The notebook applies supercell_matrix=[[1, 0, 0], [-1, 1, 0], [0, 0, 1]] and then sets interface.lattice.type = "HEX". The text states that this gives γ = 120°. The code only prints γ after the step. It does not assert γ ≈ 120° or a = b.

If the interface cell differs from the expected one, for example for a different selected_index or MAX_AREA, the label is wrong. The simulation notebook then builds a K point for a non-hexagonal cell.

Add an assertion after the relabel.

Proposed fix

 interface.lattice.type = "HEX"
+assert abs(interface.lattice.gamma - 120.0) < 0.5, f"Unexpected gamma: {interface.lattice.gamma}"
+assert abs(interface.lattice.a - interface.lattice.b) < 1e-3, "Cell is not hexagonal: a != b"

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	"from mat3ra.made.tools.helpers import create_supercell\n",
	"from mat3ra.made.tools.modify import translate_to_center\n",
	"\n",
	"interface = create_supercell(interface, supercell_matrix=[[1, 0, 0], [-1, 1, 0], [0, 0, 1]])\n",
	"interface = translate_to_center(interface, axes=[\"z\"])\n",
	"interface.lattice.type = \"HEX\"\n",
	"from mat3ra.made.tools.helpers import create_supercell\n",
	"from mat3ra.made.tools.modify import translate_to_center\n",
	"\n",
	"interface = create_supercell(interface, supercell_matrix=[[1, 0, 0], [-1, 1, 0], [0, 0, 1]])\n",
	"interface = translate_to_center(interface, axes=[\"z\"])\n",
	"interface.lattice.type = \"HEX\"\n",
	"assert abs(interface.lattice.gamma - 120.0) < 0.5, f\"Unexpected gamma: {interface.lattice.gamma}\"\n",
	"assert abs(interface.lattice.a - interface.lattice.b) < 1e-3, \"Cell is not hexagonal: a != b\"\n",

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around lines 387 - 392:
After setting `interface.lattice.type` to `"HEX"` in the notebook, assert that
the transformed cell has γ approximately 120° and equal a and b lattice lengths,
using tolerances and failure messages that report unexpected geometry.

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