SIESTA (Spanish Initiative for Electronic Simulations with Thousands of Atoms) is both a method and associated software to do electronic structure calculations and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations.
Among many other parameters, SIESTA can calculate:
- Total and partial energies
- Atomic forces
- Stress tensors
- Electric dipole moments
- Atomic, orbital, and bond populations
- Electron density
SIESTA is an academic project and is distributed free to all academic users. Commercial licenses are available through Nanotec Electronica.
For more information, see the SIESTA web site.
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SIESTA requires :
- an FDF (Flexible Data Format) input file.
- pseudopotential files in vps, psf, or xml format. You will need a pseudopotential file for each chemical species defined in the input (fdf) file.
To learn more about the required formats and how to create these input files, please see the SIESTA manuals.
To run a SIESTA job, you must: