GNXAS

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An application for analysis of extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) based on the multiple scattering theory. This application implements relativistic self-consistent calculation using the muffin-tin approximation to evaluate atomic phase shift including effect of neighboring atoms. Spectra with any number of edges can be treated simultaneously. Complex background multi-electron excitation can also be evaluated.

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Octopus

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An open-source application for first-principles calculation based on pseudo- potential and real-space basis. It performs electronic-state calculation such as band calculation of solids and structure optimization for a variety of physical systems. The method of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is implemented, which allows simulation of dynamical phenomena with real-time evolution of electronic states, such as chemical reaction and electronic response to time-dependent external fields. Comes with detailed tutorials and comprehensive manuals.

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GPAW

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An open-source application for first-principles calculation based on the PAW method. By utilizing real-space or atom-localized basis sets, this application performs electronic structure calculation based on the density functional theory as well as the GW approximation. Simulations are set up using the interface provided by Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE). The code is written in C and python, and is available under GPL.

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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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Yambo

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Code for performing many-body calculations based on the GW method, BSE method, etc. starting from Kohn-Sham wave functions obtained using density functional theory. The code relies on wave function output from either abinit or Quantum Espresso. A python interface, Yambo-py, is also under development.

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z-Pares

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z-Pares is an app for obtaining the eigenvalues and eigenvectors for general sparse matrices using the contour integrals in the complex plane, i.e., Sakurai-Sugiura method. z-Parels is written in fortran 90/95 and supports the large scale parallelization via the two-level MPI distributed parallelism.

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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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ecalj

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An open-source program package for first-principles calculation based on a mixed augmented plane wave method (the PMT method). For various physical systems, this package performs electronic structure calculation and structure optimization by LDA, GGA, LDA+U and so on. It further can treat quasi-particle excitation with high accuracy by the quasi-particle self-consistent GW method. It implements several original methods not included in other program packages, and is maintained by the version control system, Git.

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Siesta

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An open-source application for first-principles calculation utilizing pseudo-potentials and atom-localized basis sets. This application is capable of performing electronic structure calculations, structural relaxation, and molecular dynamics in a wide range of systems based on density functional theory. By adopting atom-localized basis sets, it realizes high-speed electronic calculation and linear-scaling in suitable computer systems. It can also perform electronic conductance calculations based on non-equilibrium Green’s function method.

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RuNNer

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FORTRAN-based software package developed by the Behler Group for implementing Behler-Parinello neural network potentials. Potentials can be constructed, evaluated, and used for molecular dynamics simulations using LAMMPS. The newest generation of neural network potentials that take into account long-range electrostatic interactions are implemented.

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