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The Python-based Simulations of Chemistry Framework (PySCF)

2017/01/27 by Qiming Sun, Timothy C. Berkelbach, Sun, Qiming +22 · 174 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Machine Learning in Materials Science #Surface Chemistry and Catalysis #physics.chem-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1701.08223

arxiv created 2017/03/02 · arxiv updated 2017/03/06

Abstract

PySCF is a general-purpose electronic structure platform designed from the ground up to emphasize code simplicity, both to aid new method development, as well as for flexibility in computational workflow. The package provides a wide range of tools to support simulations of finite size systems, extended systems with periodic boundary conditions, low dimensional periodic systems, and custom Hamiltonians, using mean-field and post-mean-field methods with standard Gaussian basis functions. To ensure easy of extensibility, PySCF uses the Python language to implement almost all its features, while computationally critical paths are implemented with heavily optimized C routines. Using this combined Python/C implementation, the package is as efficient as the best existing C or Fortran based quantum chemistry programs. In this paper we document the capabilities and design philosophy of the current version of the PySCF package.

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