PARSEC is made available to the community free of charge, under the GNU General Public License. Please be aware that this code comes as is. We make no warranty with respect to any bugs and we cannot respond to help requests. See our user’s guide for help. Legal issues are covered by the General Public License . Use of the L-BFGS package, part of PARSEC, is also subject to conditions of use.

Version of the code (PARSEC 1.4) can be downloaded. A user’s guide is available.

If you publish work using our code, please cite some of the following articles:

J. R. Chelikowsky, N. Troullier, and Y. Saad, Finite-difference pseudo potential method: Electronic structure calculations without a basis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 1240 (1994).

J. R. Chelikowsky, The pseudopotential-density functional method applied to nanostructures, J. of Phys. D 33, R33 (2000).

L. Kronik, A. Makmal, M.L. Tiago, M.M.G. Alemany, M. Jain, X. Huang, Y. Saad, and J.R. Chelikowsky, PARSEC-the pseudopotential algorithm for real-space electronic structure calculations: Recent Advances and novel applications to nano-structures, physica status solidi (b) 243, 1063 (2006).

Y. Saad, J.R. Chelikowsky and S.M. Shontz, Numerical methods for electronic structure calculations of materials, SIAM Rev. 52, 3 (2010).

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The first version of NanoGW, originally named RGWBS, was developed by Murilo Tiago and James R. Chelikowsky between 2004 and 2009. Linda Hung, Serdar Ogut and Weiwei Gao recently updated this code. Weiwei Gao implemented a symmetry-adapted interpolative separable density fitting method to drastically speed up the evaluation of kernel matrix elements in the calculations performed with NanoGW.

What can NanoGW do:

This package can perform the following calculations:

  1. Linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (by solving Casida equation)
  2. Full-frequency GW calculation with or without LDA vertex function (does not support spin-orbit coupling)
  3. Construct and solve Bethe-salpeter equation

This package has been tested thoroughly and optimized for molecules and nanoclusters. NanoGW is well suited for small-size (less than 30 atoms) molecules or clusters. This package can also deal with crystalline systems. .

NanoGW has been implemented on a few Linux/Unix machines, including NERSC Cori, TACC Stampede2, and personal computers that run Ubuntu or Mac OS. The code handles molecules with a few minutes and reasonable accuracy on personal computers with a 2-core/4-thread intel processor.

Required input for NanoGW:

The package requires wave functions and Kohn-Sham energies calculated with PARSEC as input. Support is provided for the plane-wave based package PARATEC. NanoGW converts the plane-wave based wave functions to real-space based wave functions.

How to cite this software:

If you find NanoGW is useful and use it for your publication, please cite the following paper:

Tiago, Murilo L. and Chelikowsky, James R, “Optical excitations in organic molecules, clusters, and defects studied by first-principles Green’s function methods,” Phys. Rev. B 73, 205334 (2006).

If you use interpolative separable density fitting (ISDF) to speed up your calculation, please also cite the following paper:

Gao, Weiwei and Chelikowsky, James R., “Accelerating Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory and GW Calculations for Molecules and Nanoclusters with Symmetry Adapted Interpolative Separable Density Fitting,” J. Chem. Theory and Comp. 16, 2216 (2020).

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