Iterative minimization techniques for ab initio total-energy calculations: molecular dynamics and conjugate gradients

MC Payne, MP Teter, DC Allan, TA Arias… - Reviews of modern …, 1992 - APS
This article describes recent technical developments that have made the total-energy
pseudopotential the most powerful ab initio quantum-mechanical modeling method …

Phonons and related crystal properties from density-functional perturbation theory

S Baroni, S De Gironcoli, A Dal Corso… - Reviews of modern Physics, 2001 - APS
This article reviews the current status of lattice-dynamical calculations in crystals, using
density-functional perturbation theory, with emphasis on the plane-wave pseudopotential …

[HTML][HTML] CP2K: An electronic structure and molecular dynamics software package-Quickstep: Efficient and accurate electronic structure calculations

TD Kühne, M Iannuzzi, M Del Ben, VV Rybkin… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
CP2K is an open source electronic structure and molecular dynamics software package to
perform atomistic simulations of solid-state, liquid, molecular, and biological systems. It is …

Advanced capabilities for materials modelling with Quantum ESPRESSO

P Giannozzi, O Andreussi, T Brumme… - Journal of physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Q uantum ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of open-source computer codes for quantum
simulations of materials using state-of-the-art electronic-structure techniques, based on …

Soft self-consistent pseudopotentials in a generalized eigenvalue formalism

D Vanderbilt - Physical review B, 1990 - APS
A new approach to the construction of first-principles pseudopotentials is described. The
method allows transferability to be improved systematically while holding the cutoff radius …

Efficient iterative schemes for ab initio total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set

G Kresse, J Furthmüller - Physical review B, 1996 - APS
We present an efficient scheme for calculating the Kohn-Sham ground state of metallic
systems using pseudopotentials and a plane-wave basis set. In the first part the application …

Efficiency of ab-initio total energy calculations for metals and semiconductors using a plane-wave basis set

G Kresse, J Furthmüller - Computational materials science, 1996 - Elsevier
We present a detailed description and comparison of algorithms for performing ab-initio
quantum-mechanical calculations using pseudopotentials and a plane-wave basis set. We …

Ab initio molecular-dynamics simulation of the liquid-metal–amorphous-semiconductor transition in germanium

G Kresse, J Hafner - Physical Review B, 1994 - APS
We present ab initio quantum-mechanical molecular-dynamics simulations of the liquid-
metal–amorphous-semiconductor transition in Ge. Our simulations are based on (a) finite …

Ab‐initio simulations of materials using VASP: Density‐functional theory and beyond

J Hafner - Journal of computational chemistry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
During the past decade, computer simulations based on a quantum‐mechanical description
of the interactions between electrons and between electrons and atomic nuclei have …

[BOOK][B] Templates for the solution of algebraic eigenvalue problems: a practical guide

Z Bai, J Demmel, J Dongarra, A Ruhe, H van der Vorst - 2000 - SIAM
In many large scale scientific or engineering computations, ranging from computing the
frequency response of a circuit to the earthquake response of a buildingto the energy levels …