The DIRAC code for relativistic molecular calculations

  • Trond Saue*
  • , Radovan Bast
  • , André Severo Pereira Gomes
  • , Hans Jørgen Aa Jensen
  • , Lucas Visscher
  • , Ignacio Agustín Aucar
  • , Roberto Di Remigio
  • , Kenneth G. Dyall
  • , Ephraim Eliav
  • , Elke Fasshauer
  • , Timo Fleig
  • , Loïc Halbert
  • , Erik Donovan Hedegård
  • , Benjamin Helmich-Paris
  • , Miroslav Iliaš
  • , Christoph R. Jacob
  • , Stefan Knecht
  • , Jon K. Laerdahl
  • , Marta L. Vidal
  • , Malaya K. Nayak
  • Małgorzata Olejniczak, Jógvan Magnus Haugaard Olsen, Markus Pernpointner, Bruno Senjean, Avijit Shee, Ayaki Sunaga, Joost N.P. van Stralen
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Abstract

DIRAC is a freely distributed general-purpose program system for one-, two-, and four-component relativistic molecular calculations at the level of Hartree-Fock, Kohn-Sham (including range-separated theory), multiconfigurational self-consistent-field, multireference configuration interaction, electron propagator, and various flavors of coupled cluster theory. At the self-consistent-field level, a highly original scheme, based on quaternion algebra, is implemented for the treatment of both spatial and time reversal symmetry. DIRAC features a very general module for the calculation of molecular properties that to a large extent may be defined by the user and further analyzed through a powerful visualization module. It allows for the inclusion of environmental effects through three different classes of increasingly sophisticated embedding approaches: the implicit solvation polarizable continuum model, the explicit polarizable embedding model, and the frozen density embedding model.

Original languageEnglish
Article number204104
Pages (from-to)1-17
Number of pages17
JournalThe Journal of chemical physics
Volume152
Issue number20
Early online date26 May 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 May 2020

Funding

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Horizon 2020 Framework Programme745967, 261873
Seventh Framework Programme

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