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Title: TURBOMOLE V7.8 released
Post by: uwe on January 16, 2024, 02:13:33 PM

TURBOMOLE V7.8 has been released (December 2023)

see https://www.turbomole.org/turbomole/release-notes-turbomole-7-8/
 (https://www.turbomole.org/turbomole/release-notes-turbomole-7-8/)

New features

• Two-component DFT using periodic boundary conditions (module riper) for relativistic effects: energies, gradients, stress-tensor https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03817 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03817)
• Two-component SCF guess from (non-collinear) superposition of atomic densities https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03817
• TDDFT-ris: two orders of magnitude speedup for hybrid TDDFT calculations with a minimal auxiliary basis-set
• Extended functionalities for frozen-density embedding (FDE):
  
  • fast FDE without supermolecular steps in dscf and ridft including OMP and MPI parallel versions
  • FDE(ECP) to account for Pauli repulsion
  • coupling to ricc2 and pnoccsd
  • arbitrary number of subsystem https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0100393 and https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00347 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00347)
• CC2 damped response theory (Complex Polarization Propagator) for the calculation of spectra in regions with high density of states
• damped linear response function for UV-vis and ECD https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0042759
• damped quadratic response function for MCD and other induced spectra https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00536
• CC2 Faraday A term for magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra of molecules with degenerate excited states, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00536
• Automatic conversion of electric field gradient (EFG) to nuclear quadrupole interaction (NQI) for EPR https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.1c01175
• EPR Euler transformations for g-tensor, HFC, EFG, NQI
• 1c g-tensor with common gauge origin to complement the GIAO results https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.2c03579
• Two-component NMR Shifts with X2C/DLU-X2C, including finnuc and mSNSO https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0171509
• Scalar-relativistic X2C/DLU-X2C NMR coupling constants, including finnuc https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.2c01248
• Zero-field splittings, supporting effective Pauli operator, SNSO, or SOMF, X2C/DLU-X2C available, including finnuc https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-2kh59-v2
• hfacm script: Enhanced support for double hybrids and Adiabatic connection model functionals
• The range-separated local hybrid functional wLH22t (implemented for ground state DFT, TDDFT and gradient calculations) can be accessed by the wlh22t keyword. Note that the 7.7 version links to different parameters than finally published https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00782
• rirpa: energy and analytical gradient for various sigma functionals https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0129524
• The new LH23pt local hybrid with improved performance for core properties, implemented for energies, gradients and TDDFT. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcc.27211
• Strong-correlation corrected local hybrids (scLH22ta, scLH22t, scLH23t-mBR, scLH23t-mBR-P) and strong-correlation corrected range-separated local hybrids (wLH23tE, wLH23tdE, wLH23tP, wLH23tdP, wLH23tB, wLH23tdB). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0058917 , https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00795 , https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0153463
• Time-reversal symmetry breaking GW and Bethe-Salpeter equation methods, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00156
• Natural virtual orbital generation, mainly for GW and BSE, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0144469
• Assessment of core ionized and excited states from TD-DFT and GW-BSE using the CVS approximation, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160265
• Fast adaptive grid contour deformation GW methods (1c and 2c), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160265
• Quantum mechanical part of photonic device and multiscale modeling, https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202301093
• Quadratic response from the Bethe-Salpeter equation
• Support for gauge-invariant cMGGAs for excited-state gradients and dipole moments in egrad and support for MGGAs and gauge-invariant cMGGAs for (dynamic) hyperpolarizabilities and two-photon absorption cross-sections in escf https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00259

Enhancements 

• Improved parallel (OpenMP) performance of periodic DFT (riper)
• Simplified COSMO input (automatic selection of dielectric constant and refractive index based on solvent name for many solvents)
• Add soscal throughout all spin-orbit features in ridft, rdgrad, escf, mpshift, riper
• Automatic orbitalshift for 2c SCF (previously automatic was read but ignored, i.e. closedshell shift was used) https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03817
• Superposition of atomic densities: Hückel occupation https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03817
• Automatic selection of isotopes for NMR and EPR according to experimental standards
• New flag $epr for simultaneous calculation of all EPR properties (HFC, g-tensor, EFG/NQI, ZFS) with restart option
• Compatibility with the “treams” package for the simulation of multiscale and photonic devices https://github.com/tfp-photonics/treams/tree/main
• Further improved seminumerical algorithms, improved available small grids
• All GW and BSE functionality is now fully available on GPUs
• Basis Sets:
• addition of pob-DZVP-rev2 and pob-TZVP-rev2 basis sets and the corresponding ECPs, useful for periodic DFT calculations with riper
• Dyall basis sets for the light elements
• added all basis sets and ECPs of Dolg
• restructured basen library for ECPs
• Fixes:
• fix NICS output for large distances and correct wording
• fix libxc output with D3 in aoforce
• fixed input for pseudospectral methods in mpshift, redirects to senex
• improved GIMIC interface, i.e. delete files which are not needed for GIMIC Version 2
• fixed memory leaks for LHF gradients
• fix DFT grids with fullshell in mpshift
• fix simultaneous use of $esenex and LHF in mpshift
• fix keyword $intsdebug
• fixed memory leaks in evib

TmoleX

• New method GW and excitation energies based on GW using BSE (Bethe-Salpeter Equations) available in the graphical user interface
• List of files to copy back from external runs is now customizable
• When working with several displays which use different scaling factors, users experienced issues with incorrect sizing of dialogs and missing scrollbars. These issues have been fixed and the UI should appear appropriately
• The default fonts and font sizes of the Solvation Chemistry application UIs was changed for better readability if scaling of the display is used
• The following third party libraries have been updated to a newer and/or bugfixed version: jogl library from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0-rc  ; CDK library from 2.7.1 to 2.8 ; Synthetica from 3.4.1 to 3.5.0 ; gson from 2.9.0 to 2.10.1 ; MariadbClient from 2.7.2 to 3.1.4 ; SQLite library 3.36.0.3 to 3.42.0.0 ; POI library from 5.2.2 to 5.2.3