CP2K

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An open-source first-principles calculation library for pseudopotential and all-electron calculations. One of or a mixture of Gaussian and plane wave basis sets can be used. A lot of the development focuses on massively parallel calculations and linear scaling. The user can choose various calculation methods including density functional theory and Hartree-Fock.

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TC++

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TC++ is open-source software for ab initio calculations using the transcorrelated (TC) method. In TC++, users can take account of electron correlations in a Jastrow correlation factor based on the TC method. Electronic structures obtained by Quantum ESPRESSO can be used as an initial state of TC++.

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BerkeleyGW

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BerkeleyGW is an open-source program package to calculate quasi-particle spectrum and optical responses from mean-field result by using GW approximation and Bethe-Salpeter equation. This is compatible with output files of many commonly used DFT codes such as Quantum ESPRESSO.

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JDFTx

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An application for first-principles calculation by the joint-DFT method based on a plane-wave basis. By implementation of the joint-DFT method, this application realizes a good convergence for electronic state calculation of molecules in liquid, particular for charged systems. This application is written by C++11, and supports GPU calculation by CUDA. This application also supports diffusive Monte Carlo simulation in cooperation with CASINO.

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QMAS

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QMAS is an ab-initio electronic-structure computational code package based on the projector augmented-wave (PAW) with a plane wave basis set. It computes electronic states and various physical properties efficiently with high precision for a wide range of physical systems. It provides geometry optimization, electronic states in a static magnetic field, permittivity distribution at the atomic-scale, energy and stress distribution, positron annihilation parameters, and so forth.

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Osaka2k

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An open-source application for first-principles calculation utilizing pseudo-potentials and plane-wave basis sets. This application is capable of performing electronic structure calculations of a wide range of physical systems such as crystals and surfaces/interfaces. It supports structure relaxation, phonon-dispersion calculation, and molecular dynamics simulation, and can deal with systems with the spin-orbit interaction.

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STATE

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STATE is a first-principles plane-wave pseudo-potential code. It provides electronic state calculations and molecular dynamics simulations. This code is suitable for simulating chemical reactions at solid surfaces and solid–liquid interfaces, i.e., It is able to investigate reaction paths and activation barriers of chemical processes at interfaces. It can also include Van der Waals corrections to conventional density functional theory.

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CASTEP

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Software for first-principles calculation based on pseudo-potential and plane-wave basis. This software performs electronic-state calculation of various systems by density functional theory, and can treat structure optimization, excited-state analysis, and so on. This software can be applied to many physical phenomena such as catalysis reaction, calculation of phase diagram, etc. There are many users of this payware in the world.

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Advance/PHASE

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Advance / PHASE is  software for first-principles calculation based on the density functional theory by using plane-wave basis and pseudopotentials. Since the electronic state is obtained based on quantum mechanics, highly accurate results can be obtained. It can be expected not only to analyze existing materials but also to design various metals, insulators, semiconductors, magnetic materials, dielectric materials, piezoelectric materials, and various other new materials.

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PARATEC

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PARATEC is a parallel DFT program package based on plane-wave basis and norm-conserving pseudopotential.

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