ONETEP

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An application for first-principles calculation based on the order-N method. This application can perform electronic-state calculation and band calculation for various physical systems. It supports the DFT+U method, the time-dependent DFT method, molecular dynamics, etc., and can also treat van der Waals forces and phonons. By using support applications, generation of input files, transformation between different file formats, and analysis of numerical results can be performed.

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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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HORTON

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An open-source application for quantum chemical calculation. This application can perform quantum chemical calculation based on the Hartree-Fock method and the density functional method. The code is developed on the emphasis of readability and flexibility, and can be called from Python scripts. Quantum chemical calculation based on two-electron wave functions (geminals) is also possible.

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McPhase

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A program package for physical properties related to magnetism. This application can evaluate various physical quantities of magnetics such as crystal fields, magnetic structures, thermodynamic quantities (magnetization, specific heat, etc.), and magnetic excitation. This package can also perform fitting analysis of neutron diffraction experiments and resonant X-ray diffraction experiments, and is helpful to experimentalists.

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Molcas

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An application for ab initio quantum chemical calculation. This application can calculate ground states and excited states of molecules by the SCF/DFT, the CASSCF/RASSCF, and the CASPT2/RASPT2 method. It is architected especially for obtaining potential energy surfaces of excited states, and maintains high-speed, high-accuracy, and robust open codes.

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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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CRYSTAL

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A first-principles simulation program based on the pseudopotential method utilizing Gaussian basis sets. It can perform simulations based on Hartree-Fock and density functional theories. It can be run under Unix/Linux, and also provides a simple GUI for Windows. Binaries are distributed for a fee, but users can first try the evaluation copy.

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Gaussian

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Standard payware for ab-initio quantum chemical calculation. This package performs electronic-state simulation of molecules by various quantum chemical theory such as Hartree-Fock theory, density functional theory, configuration interaction theory, etc. This package can perform structure optimization, calculation of transition states, evaluation of optical responses with high speed, and have many users in the world.

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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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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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