The DIRAC code for relativistic molecular calculations
Trond Saue1, Radovan Bast2, André Severo Pereira Gomes3
1Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantique, UMR 5626 CNRS-Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, France.
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.
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