Questions tagged [reference-request]
This tag is for questions looking for a single specific, or a small number of (citable) references.
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Which two-dimensional material has been identified as having the highest reported Magnetic Anisotropy Energy (MAE) to date?
I'll show where I have looked later.
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How to perform LSDA calculation in Quantum Espresso?
I was simply asking where do I find the reference paper/tutorial for LSDA calculations on quantum ESPRESSO, since I'm struggling to find anywhere to information about the ...
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What are some good references for periodic Hartree-Fock calculations?
I am looking to implement a Hartree-Fock program to study periodic, condensed matter system, however, I literally cannot find a single reference or example anywhere for how to do this. In the past, I ...
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What is the computational scaling of DFT energy vs gradient vs Hessian?
I am trying to understand the computational expense of calculating only the energy, versus the gradient/Hessian of the DFT energy with respect to nuclear coordinates. How do these scale with the size ...
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Material for learning to use pymatgen?
I was looking for methods to generate the k-path for electronic band calculation in periodic solids. In the article below, the authors presented an algorithm they developed based on the Latimer–Munro (...
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Most up to date explanation explaining the stability of high spin multiplicity (multiplicity=2S+1 ) states? [closed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hund%27s_rules:
"However, accurate quantum-mechanical calculations (starting in the 1970s)... singly occupied orbitals are less effectively screened or shielded ...
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What are good test cases for benchmarking and scaling studies of SIESTA on up to a few thousand cores?
Subject says it all. I'm looking for SIESTA test cases suitable for benchmarking and scaling studies on clusters having up to a few thousand cores.
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Examples of low sensitivity of observable behavior to the choice of DFT functional
This question is the antipode to another one I just asked. Here I am looking for examples where not immediately obvious properties are predicted well by a range of functionals or pairs of rather ...
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Examples of high sensitivity of observable behavior to the choice of DFT functional
Most computational materials science studies perform or reference some sort of baseline process for choosing the DFT functional that they will employ to model their system. It is unlikely that a ...
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Identification of all possible H adsorption sites on the surface
I want to calculate Gibbs free energy of hydrogen atom
adsorbed on an adsorption site (ΔGH*), to evaluate
the HER activity of that particular surface of material.
How can i identify all possible H ...
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Which expectation values can be determined with KS orbitals?
Suppose $A$ is some hermitian operator and $\Psi$ is a many body state function of a many-body hamiltonian $H = T + U + V$, where $U$ is electron-electron interaction and V is electron-nuclear ...
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Calculation of pH in Molecular Dynamics simulation?
I have a system that has 5M aluminum hydroxide (10 molecules) ion [Al(OH)4]- and 5M NaOH (10 molecules) in a box of side length 15 angstroms each. I have 113 water molecules in the system, so that the ...
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Advantages/Disadvantages of Qeq over Drude polarizable model?
For classical Molecular Dynamics (cMD) simulations, the usual methodology is to use force fields (FFs) with fixed point charges (examples include CHARMM, AMBER and Gromos). However, this approach ...
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Are there any good tutorials on SHARC-Gaussian interface?
I am an aspiring quantum chemist planning on trying out the SHARC approach to study excited state proton transfer dynamics of organic molecules. I am comfortable with Gaussian 16 as that is the ...
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Looking for resources to learn quantum dynamics at a preliminary graduate level
I am currently a senior year chemistry undergraduate with a keen interest towards pursuing a PhD in the fields of Quantum Dynamics. I have a strong background in mathematics and undergraduate quantum ...
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Calculation of the vdW interactions without DFT
I am looking for proxy methods of calculating vdW interactions similar to the DFT-D2, DFT-D3, and DFT-D4 methods which require only atomic positions and/or properties of the atoms. It would be good ...
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Example of single reaction with multiple transition states
I was working with nudged elastic band (NEB) to model some reactions, and someone asked what would happen if there are multiple pathways between the reactant and product (minima on the PES). This led ...
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Free energy calculations for lammps
Is there any tutorial or reference available to perform free energy calculations (umbrella sampling; thermodynamic integration; free energy perturbation; wisdom's particle insertion method) etc. with ...
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Updated book/chapter or review article with broad perspective on computational chemistry
I really like Frank Jensen's "Introduction to Computational Chemistry" because it provides a broad perspective, starting from first principles and extending to surveys of current methods for ...
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How to go from zero to hero in Machine Learning for materials modelling
I am interested in exploring the use of machine learning tools to accelerate molecular dynamics simulation probably by training machine learning potentials. While I have found some papers that apply ...
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Evaluating analytic gradients for overlap integrals
I have been working on a toy HF code for some time. From this reference I am trying to work out an analytic expression for the first derivatives of overlap integrals.
The original expression for ...
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Method for Energy Computation of Protein Structures
So far i have found only one paper that describes how we can compute protein energy while doing MD simulation:
Nishikawa, Ken, Motohisa Oobatake, and Tatsuo Ooi. "Method for Energy Computation ...
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Indirect to direct band gap transition in SUPERCELLS?
My compound under investigation are cubic and construct corresponding 2x2x2 supercell. Properties like optical and mechanical seem to be correct as expected. However a problem arises in their ...
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Factorization of a closed shell Slater determinant into spatial and spin part
I'm studying the HF method, so I have a non-relativistic time-independent Hamiltonian.
Since in the Hamiltonian, there is no spin, we have:
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\left[\hat{H}, \hat{S}_z \right] = 0 \quad \text{and} \...
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Trouble finding pdfs of "Tables of Interatomic Distances and Configuration in Molecules and Ions" series books
I am currently trying to find molecular geometry data prior to 1960, and it seems like
"Tables of Interatomic Distances and Configuration in Molecules and Ions (1958). Special publication No. 11. ...
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How to calculate the Eliashberg spectral function in VASP?
I want to calculate a superconducting critical temperature.
I see in papers like this one: link that they calculate $T_c$ in Quantum Espresso. They use the formula (Eq. 2 in that paper):
$$T_c=\frac{\...
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Time Evolution of the Hartree-Fock Wave Function
The Hartree-Fock Hamiltonian is given by
$$
\hat{H} = \sum_i \hat{h}_i + \frac{1}{2}\sum_i\sum_j \left[\hat{J}_{ij} - \hat{K}_{ij}\right]
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and by choosing a basis, the Hamiltonian can be written in ...
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Where can I find the source code from the book "The Art of Molecular Dynamics Simulation"?
I need the source code (written in C programming language) for the following book:
The Page-xiii of the book says:
Software availability
Readers interested in ...
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Molecular integrals in spherical harmonics?
I have been trying to write a basic HF code that can compute the MOs and total energy of a molecule. I followed the following reference for overlap and kinetic integrals. During a conversation with a ...
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Hartree Fock method
Currently, I'm studying (again from zero and more in detail) Hartree Fock (HF) method, specifically the Restricted Hartree Fock (RHF).
I'm following two books:
"Introduction to Computational ...
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Interaction energy of two cartesian quadrupoles?
I am looking for a complete description of the interaction of two traceless cartesian quadrupoles. Even just an implementation online would be quite useful. The problem I am having is many of the ...
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Can you supply me with some book names on MC protein simulation?
Is there any book written on protein simulation specifically using the Monte Carlo technique (i.e., not QM or MD)?
If so, can you supply me with some names of such books?
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What is a 'mover' in molecular dynamics?
Movers
What is a 'mover' in molecular dynamics?
Can you supply me with reading material on 'mover'?
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Which researchers in electrical engineering do work related to DFT?
I would like to gain knowledge about how DFT calculations can be specifically used in the subject of electrical engineering. It would really help if people in the community can direct me towards ...
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Where can I find the MASTANI-2014 tutorial files?
There was a two-week summer school on Density Functional Theory using Quantum ESPRESSO in the summer of 2014 organized by The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), jointly ...
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Why are maximally localized Wannier functions supposed to be real?
I am computing maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) for several high-pressure phases of a system I am studying using wannier90. For some of these calculations, I see that the imaginary part ...
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Reference textbooks for calculating pressures/stress/strain/tensors? [closed]
Is there a good reference textbook for calculating pressures/stress/strain/tensors in materials - vapor, liquids and solids? Pure physics is fine, but it would be a bonus if it also included force-...
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High school student that wants to do DFT calculations
I originally asked this on Physics.SE but was suggested to ask here instead.
I'm a high school student interested in material simulation. I want to do a project involving density functional theory to ...
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Original reference for gapped chiral fermion k·p model?
In eq. 1 of this reference, the authors present the following Hamiltonian for the 2-band gapped chiral fermion model that can describe many systems including various semiconductors, N-layer graphene, ...
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I'm considering to take an introduction course with textbook "Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction", as a beginner QE user. Is it okay?
People, I am a beginner in material modeling (I am studing solid state in Quantum ESPRESSO) and I am having a lot of difficulty with basic terms like "k-points", "Miller Indices", &...
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Simple models for the energetic stabilization associated with damped polarizabilities of anions in solution [closed]
For many molecules, the gas-phase molecular polarizability, $\alpha_{gas}$ is approximately the same as that in the liquid, $\alpha_{liq.}$. For instance, $\ce{H2O}$, has roughly the same average $\...
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Improving my programming for computational chemistry/physics
What are some good textbooks or online resources to improve my skills in C++, C and Fortran, specifically for computational chemistry.
For example, I am interested in learning about parallelisation ...
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Books on machine learning and condensed matter? [closed]
What are the best books on the use of machine learning in condensed matter, focusing on density functional theory and many-body physics?
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Great value introductory computational drug design literature?
Anyone know introductory computational drug design literature of great value.
I found plenty from web stores, but some of these cost €100 or more. I'm not sure if all of them are as worthwhile.
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Book that can interpret molecular properties of organic coumpounds? [closed]
I'm new in the field of research and modelling matter.
I got results from DFT calculations but I don't know how to interpret them and I wonder if anyone can suggest to me books for interpreting ...
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Literature applying molecular docking into MD-simulated structures of proteins
This is quite surprising, at least for me, that many papers performed molecular docking of an unsimulated (original) protein structure and MD simulation of a protein in a timescale to check the ...
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Methods to build tight-binding models for realistic materials [closed]
I am aware that a standard way to build tight-binding models for realistic crystalline systems is by using the Maximally-localized Wannier Functions (MLWFs) as implemented in the Wannier90 Fortran ...
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How does charge mixing work?
When doing DFT calculations on certain magnetic materials, convergence can be difficult. This problem can be solved by changing the mixing parameters (e.g. AMIN and BMIX in the INCAR file of VASP). My ...
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Learning how the DFT codes work
I am a beginning PhD student studying topological materials and strongly-correlated systems, such as high Tc superconductivity. I am using density functional theory in my work. I am wondering what I ...
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List of properties of molecules categorized by the number of atoms?
Is there an online database having information on molecules with a certain number of atoms? For example, properties of tri-atomic molecules?
There is this table that I got from NIST which gives a few, ...
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