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EST研究路线图|基于电子结构的化学与材料模拟方法及软件路线图

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This Roadmap article provides a succinct, comprehensive overview of the state of electronic structure (ES) methods and software for molecular and materials simulations. Seventeen distinct sections collect insights by 51 leading scientists in the field. Each contribution addresses the status of a particular area, as well as current challenges and anticipated future advances, with a particular eye towards software related aspects and providing key references for further reading. Foundational sections cover density functional theory and its implementation in real-world simulation frameworks, Green’s function based many-body perturbation theory, wave-function based and stochastic ES approaches, relativistic effects and semiempirical ES theory approaches. Subsequent sections cover nuclear quantum effects, real-time propagation of the ES, challenges for computational spectroscopy simulations, and exploration of complex potential energy surfaces. The final sections summarize practical aspects, including computational workflows for complex simulation tasks, the impact of current and future high-performance computing architectures, software engineering practices, education and training to maintain and broaden the community, as well as the status of and needs for ES based modeling from the vantage point of industry environments. Overall, the field of ES software and method development continues to unlock immense opportunities for future scientific discovery, based on the growing ability of computations to reveal complex phenomena, processes and properties that are determined by the make-up of matter at the atomic scale, with high precision.

文章介绍

Roadmap on methods and software for electronic structure based simulations in chemistry and materials

Volker Blum, Ryoji Asahi, Jochen Autschbach, Christoph Bannwarth, Gustav Bihlmayer, Stefan Blügel, Lori A Burns, T Daniel Crawford, William Dawson, Wibe Albert de Jong, Claudia Draxl, Claudia Filippi, Luigi Genovese, Paolo Giannozzi, Niranjan Govind, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Jeff R Hammond, Benjamin Hourahine, Anubhav Jain, Yosuke Kanai, Paul R C Kent, Ask Hjorth Larsen, Susi Lehtola, Xiaosong Li, Roland Lindh, Satoshi Maeda, Nancy Makri, Jonathan Moussa, Takahito Nakajima, Jessica A Nash, Micael J T Oliveira, Pansy D Patel, Giovanni Pizzi, Geoffrey Pourtois, Benjamin P Pritchard, Eran Rabani, Markus Reiher, Lucia Reining, Xinguo Ren, Mariana Rossi, H Bernhard Schlegel, Nicola Seriani, Lyudmila V Slipchenko, Alexander Thom, Edward F Valeev, Benoit Van Troeye, Lucas Visscher, Vojtěch Vlček, Hans-Joachim Werner, David B Williams-Young and Theresa L. Windus

通讯作者：

Volker Blum，美国杜克大学
Theresa L. Windus，美国埃姆斯国家实验室

期刊介绍

Electronic Structure

2024年影响因子：2.4 Citescore：4.4
Electronic Structure（EST）是一本新发表的多学科期刊，覆盖电子结构研究的理论和实验工作，包括新方法的开发。EST是第一本致力于服务电子结构领域的期刊，涵盖材料学、物理学、化学和生物学。除了原创性研究外，EST还发表专题综述、专刊和技术笔记。