DFTB+ recipes

• Introduction
  • Before you start
  • Where to start
• Basic usage
  • First calculation with DFTB+
  • Band structure, DOS and PDOS
  • First steps with Waveplot
• Molecular dynamics
  • Molecular dynamics
  • Preparing for an MD calculation
  • Vibrational modes
  • Dynamics in the ground state
  • Speeding up SCC MD
  • Analysing MD
  • Simulated annealing
  • PLUMED2 integration and metadynamics
• Graphene defect calculations
  • Electronic structure of 2D carbon materials
• Electronic dynamics
  • Electronic dynamics
  • Calculation of electronic absorption spectra
  • Driving electronic dynamics with external fields
  • Ehrenfest dynamics
• Parallel usage of DFTB+
  • Introduction
  • Amdahl’s law
  • Gustafson’s law
  • Compiling the code
  • Benchmarking and scalability
• Property calculations
  • Phonon calculations with phonopy
  • Reaction barriers
• Electron transport
  • Specifying the geometry
  • Setup Geometry utility
  • Electron transport calculations in armchair nanoribbons
  • Example: Molecular Junction
  • Example: Local Currents
• Interfaces with other codes
  • Atomic Simulation Environment - ASE
• Licence
• Bibliography