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CheckDen, a program to compute quantum molecular properties on spatial grids
Luis F Pacios1, Alberto Fernandez
1Departamento de Biotecnología, Unidad de Química y Bioquímica, ETS Ingenieros de Montes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain. luis.fpacios@upm.es
Abstract:
CheckDen, a program to compute quantum molecular properties on a variety of spatial grids is presented. The program reads as unique input wavefunction files written by standard quantum packages and calculates the electron density rho(r), promolecule and density difference function, gradient of rho(r), Laplacian of rho(r), information entropy, electrostatic potential, kinetic energy densities G(r) and K(r), electron localization function (ELF), and localized orbital locator (LOL) function. These properties can be calculated on a wide range of one-, two-, and three-dimensional grids that can be processed by widely used graphics programs to render high-resolution images. CheckDen offers also other options as extracting separate atom contributions to the property computed, converting grid output data into CUBE and OpenDX volumetric data formats, and perform arithmetic combinations with grid files in all the recognized formats.
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