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DFTB+ Recipes

  • Introduction
  • Basic usage
    • First calculation with DFTB+
    • Band structure, DOS and PDOS
    • First steps with Waveplot
  • Extended tight binding
  • Molecular dynamics
    • Molecular dynamics
    • Preparing for an MD calculation
    • Dynamics in the ground state
    • Speeding up SCC MD
    • Analysing MD
    • Simulated annealing
    • PLUMED2 integration and metadynamics
    • Restarting molecular dynamics
  • Solvation effects
  • Graphene defect calculations
    • Electronic structure of 2D carbon materials
  • Linear response excitations
    • Introduction
    • Excitation energies of diatomic molecules
    • Absorption spectrum of a macromolecule
    • Absorption spectrum of NO-TiO2 complex
    • Calculations using range-separated TD-DFTB
    • Geometry relaxation in the excited state
    • Visualization of natural orbitals with waveplot
  • Electronic dynamics
    • Electronic dynamics
    • Calculation of electronic absorption spectra
    • Driving electronic dynamics with external fields
    • Ehrenfest dynamics
    • Tutorial: Photoinduced charge transfer in a donor-acceptor complex.
  • Parallel usage of DFTB+
    • Introduction
    • Theoretical parallel scaling
    • Compiling the code
    • Benchmarking and scalability
  • Property calculations
    • Phonon calculations with phonopy
    • Reaction barriers
  • REKS
    • Energy and gradient calculations with REKS
    • Advanced calculations
    • Error handling with REKS
  • Electron transport
    • Specifying the geometry
    • Setup Geometry utility
    • Electron transport calculations in armchair nanoribbons
    • Example: Molecular Junction
    • Example: Local Currents
  • Boundary conditions
    • Helical geometries
    • Semi-infinite structures
  • Reaction path search
  • Interfaces with other codes
    • Atomic Simulation Environment - ASE
      • File-IO
      • Socket-Communication
      • Nudged Elastic Band - NEB
        • via File-IO
        • via Socket-Communication
    • Python Interface
    • i-PI
  • Licence
  • Bibliography
  • Repository
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Parallel usage of DFTB+

Parallel usage of DFTB+#

  • Introduction
  • Theoretical parallel scaling
  • Compiling the code
  • Benchmarking and scalability

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