LibGridXC - Exchange-correlation energies and potentials in radial and 3D grids¶
This module allows the calculation of electronic exchange and correlation energies and potentials on simulation grids, both on serial and parallel computers.
Purpose of Module¶
LibGridXC provides routines to calculate the exchange and correlation energy and potential in spherical (i.e. an atom) or periodic systems, using a variety of LDA and GGA functionals, as well as a variety of van der Waals DFT functionals [DION2004] [KLIMES2009] [LEE2010] [VYDROV2010], implemented as described by Román-Pérez and Soler [ROMAN2009].
| [DION2004] | Dion et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246401 (2004). |
| [LEE2010] | Lee et al., Phys. Rev. B 82, 081101 (2010). |
| [KLIMES2009] | Klimes et al., J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 22, 022201 (2009). |
| [VYDROV2010] | Vydrov, VanVoorhis, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 244103 (2010). |
| [ROMAN2009] | Román-Pérez, Soler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096102 (2009). |
Background Information¶
LibGridXC was originally developed within SIESTA, under the name SiestaXC, and then extracted as a stand-alone module for the Electronic Structure Library, to be shared with other codes than SIESTA. The development efforts carried out to make it a module include the design and implementation of an Autotools-based build system compatible with the one of SIESTA, as well as the migration to Git for version control and the setting up of a Continuous Integration (CI) process.
Building and Testing¶
LibGridXC provides an Autotools-based build system. Its build procedure is relatively straightforward:
cd libgridxc-x.y.x mkdir my_build_dir cd my_build_dir ../configure –prefix=/my/install/dir make make check make install
where x.y.z is the version of LibGridXC you want to install,
my_build_dir is the build directory where you will compile the library,
and /my/install/dir is the absolute path where you want to install it.
Build parameters can be adjusted by providing options to the configure script.
To get a list of available options, you can use the --help option of the
configure script, e.g. run:
./configure –help
from the top source directory of LibGridXC, or:
../configure –help
from your build directory. By using the --enable-multiconfig option of
configure, you will be able to install both a serial and a MPI-aware version
of LibGridXC with the same install prefix.
For more information about the Autotools, please consult the Autotools Mythbuster.
Source Code¶
The source code of LibGridXC is hosted on GitLab.