About STATE †
STATE (Simulation Tool for Atom TEchnology) is plane-wave pseudopotential implementation of the electronic structure calculations and ab intio molecular dynamics simulations based on density functional theory within the local, semilocal, and nonlocal density functional.
- Electronic minimization
- Davidson
- RMS-DIIS (Residual Minimization Method/Direct Inversion in Iterative subspace)
- Electronic structure analysis
- Density of states, partial density of states
- Band structure
- Crystal orbital overlap population
- STM simulation
- Structural optimization
- Quenched Molecular dynamics
- Generalized Direct Inversion in Iterative Subspace (GDIIS)
- Reaction path search
- Nudged Elastic Band (NEB) method
- Climbing Image nudged elastic band (CINEB) method
- Molecular dynamics
- NVE ensemble
- NVT ensemble (velocity-scaling,Nose-Hoover)
- Free energy sampling
- Blue moon ensemble
- Metadynamics
- Real-space projection of nonlocal pseudopotential
- Accurate slab calculation with the effective screening medium (ESM) method
- Electrified slab calculation with the ESM method
STATE is written in the fortran90 and parallized with MPI and Open MPI.