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Top new questions this week:

When doing a CASSCF calculation, why do we rotate by 90 degrees rather than by a different amount?

This question pertains on how to do CASSCF calculations in ORCA: Why do we specifically rotate by 90 degrees when we swap MOs to create our orbital space? Thanks

orca casscf  
user avatar asked by jano Score of 8
user avatar answered by wzkchem5 - Zikuan Wang Score of 7

Studying weak interactions in PySCF

I am trying to reproduce an Energy Decomposition Analysis within the PySCF framework and compare the results with Orca. The problem is that while my script shows good agreement for systems such as C₂H₆...

orca pyscf  
user avatar asked by Roman A. Score of 6
user avatar answered by leeman Score of 5

How to express velocity with non-orthogonal hamiltonian and overlap matrice?

Suppose H and S are Hamiltonian and overlap matrices for the system with non-orthogonal basis. I am trying to use Kubo-Greenwood formula, equation (1), to compute the conductance for the 2D materials. ...

quantum-chemistry siesta transport quantum-dynamics  
user avatar asked by Kieran Score of 2
user avatar answered by nickpapior Score of 1

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Gaussian Inv3 Error

Does somebody know how to resolve the error Inv3 failed in PCMMkU. Error termination via Lnk1e in /g16/g16/l502.exe at Sat Jan 15 19:18:03 2022. The input is <...

gaussian implicit-solvent  
user avatar asked by Andrea Pellegrini Score of 6
user avatar answered by Andrea Pellegrini Score of 2

How can I visualize the trajectory of a VASP simulation?

Which software package(s) can be used to visualize the trajectory of VASP MD simulation? VMD claims that there is a plugin to read the VASP output, while in the last version for Linux, I did not find ...

vasp one-topic-per-answer visualization-software  
user avatar asked by Y. Zhai Score of 18
user avatar answered by WaterMolecule Score of 9

Langevin vs Nosé–Hoover thermostat

can anyone explain the pros and cons of using the Langevin vs Nosé–Hoover thermostat? I wonder how to choose a suitable thermostat for a system, such as oxide, organic materials.

molecular-dynamics  
user avatar asked by Binh Thien Score of 12
user avatar answered by Andrey Poletayev Score of 10

How I can analyze and present docking results?

I did a docking job and got a score of -5.69 kcal/mol and a value for MM-GBSA of -60 kcal/mol. I should analyze these results for my thesis but do not know how to comment on them. Does anyone have ...

binding-energy docking glide  
user avatar asked by Giu Score of 12
user avatar answered by kskinnerx16 Score of 8

Is it right to neglect very small imaginary frequencies?

I'm running a DFT optimization (B3LYP/def2-TZVP) and frequencies in ORCA for a molecule. And I get one or two very small (1-6 cm^-1) imaginary frequencies which corresponds to a slight bend of the ...

geometry-optimization vibrations spectroscopy orca high-precision  
user avatar asked by Roman Score of 28
user avatar answered by Geoff Hutchison Score of 28

Which Linux distribution is best for Matter Modeling?

In some science fields there are efforts to provide customized distributions, so you can get a productive environment with minimum set-up overhead. For example, in high energy particle physics, we ...

software one-topic-per-answer high-performance-computing open-source matter-modeling-specific-technology  
user avatar asked by ksousa Score of 27
user avatar answered by Nike Dattani Score of 18

Supercomputers around the world

For a matter modelling person, the most valuable resource is computing power. For many of us, computing power at hand limits the scale of problems we can solve. There are many national supercomputing ...

high-performance-computing one-topic-per-answer  
user avatar asked by Thomas Score of 43
user avatar answered by Nike Dattani Score of 24
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