TURBOMOLE is a highly optimized software suite for large-scale quantum-chemical and materials science simulations of molecules, clusters, extended systems, and periodic solids. TURBOMOLE uses Gaussian basis sets and has been designed with robust and fast quantum-chemical applications in mind, ranging from homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis to inorganic and organic chemistry and various types of spectroscopy, light–matter interactions, and biochemistry. This Perspective briefly surveys TURBOMOLE’s functionality and highlights recent developments that have taken place between 2020 and 2023, comprising new electronic structure methods for molecules and solids, previously unavailable molecular properties, embedding, and molecular dynamics approaches. Select features under development are reviewed to illustrate the continuous growth of the program suite, including nuclear electronic orbital methods, Hartree–Fock-based adiabatic connection models, simplified time-dependent density functional theory, relativistic effects and magnetic properties, and multiscale modeling of optical properties.
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Roadmap on methods and software for electronic structure based simulations in chemistry and materials
Abstract Contents 1. Introduction- Methods and software for electronic structure based simulations of chemistry and materials 2. Density Functional Theory: Formalism and Current Directions 3. Density functional methods - implementation, challenges, successes 4. Green’s function based many-body perturbation theory 5. Wave-function theory approaches – explicit approaches to electron correlation 6. Quantum Monte Carlo and stochastic electronic structure methods 7. Heavy element relativity, spin-orbit physics, and magnetism 8. Semiempirical methods 9. Simulating Nuclear Dynamics with Quantum Effects 10. Real-Time Propagation in Electronic Structure Theory 11. Spectroscopy 12. Tools for exploring potential energy surfaces 13. Managing complex computational workflows 14. Current and Future Computer Architectures 15. Electronic structure software engineering 16. Education and Training in Electronic Structure Theory: Navigating an Evolving Landscape 17. Electronic structure theory facing industry and realistic modeling of experiments 18. List of Acronyms
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- Electronic Structure
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- 2516-1075
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- National Science Foundation
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