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Software for the frontiers of quantum chemistry: An overview of developments in the Q-Chem 5 package
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Software for the frontiers of quantum chemistry: An overview of developments in the Q-Chem 5 package

Evgeny Epifanovsky, Saswata Dasgupta, Joe Gomes, Andrew T. B Gilbert, Stephen Mason, Xintian Feng, Joonho Lee, Yuezhi Mao, Narbe Mardirossian, Pavel Pokhilko, …
The Journal of chemical physics, Vol.155(8), pp.84801-084801
08/28/2021
DOI: 10.1063/5.0055522
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https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0055522View
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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article summarizes technical advances contained in the fifth major release of the Q-Chem quantum chemistry program package, covering developments since 2015. A comprehensive library of exchange–correlation functionals, along with a suite of correlated many-body methods, continues to be a hallmark of the Q-Chem software. The many-body methods include novel variants of both coupled-cluster and configuration-interaction approaches along with methods based on the algebraic diagrammatic construction and variational reduced density-matrix methods. Methods highlighted in Q-Chem 5 include a suite of tools for modeling core-level spectroscopy, methods for describing metastable resonances, methods for computing vibronic spectra, the nuclear–electronic orbital method, and several different energy decomposition analysis techniques. High-performance capabilities including multithreaded parallelism and support for calculations on graphics processing units are described. Q-Chem boasts a community of well over 100 active academic developers, and the continuing evolution of the software is supported by an “open teamware” model and an increasingly modular design.

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