Title
The Abinit project: Impact, environment and recent developments
Abstract
Abinitis a material- and nanostructure-oriented package that implements density-functional theory (DFT) and many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) to find, from first principles, numerous properties including total energy, electronic structure, vibrational and thermodynamic properties, different dielectric and non-linear optical properties, and related spectra. In the special issue to celebrate the 40th anniversary of CPC, published in 2009, a detailed account of Abinitwas included [Gonze et al. (2009)], and has been amply cited. The present article comes as a follow-up to this 2009 publication. It includes an analysis of the impact that Abinithas had, through for example the bibliometric indicators of the 2009 publication. Links with several other computational materials science projects are described. This article also covers the new capabilities of Abinitthat have been implemented during the last three years, complementing a recent update of the 2009 article published in 2016. Physical and technical developments inside the abinit application are covered, as well as developments provided with the Abinitpackage, such as the multibinitand a-tdepprojects, and related Abinitorganization developments such as AbiPy. The new developments are described with relevant references, input variables, tests, and tutorials.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.cpc.2019.107042
Computer Physics Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
First-principles calculation,Electronic structure,Density-functional theory,Many-body perturbation theory,Abinit
Mathematical optimization,Systems engineering,ABINIT,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
248
0010-4655
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
53