WIEN2k

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WIEN2k
Original author(s)P. Blaha, K. Schwarz, G. K. H. Madsen, D. Kvasnicka, J. Luitz, R. Laskowski, F. Tran and L. D. Marks
Developer(s)Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien
Initial release1990; 34 years ago (1990)
Stable release
WIEN2k_23.2[1] / February 15, 2023; 13 months ago (2023-02-15)[1]
Written inFortran 90
Operating systemLinux/Unix[2]
Available inEnglish
TypeDensity functional theory
LicenseProprietary (industry: 4000 €;[3] academic: 400 €[3])
Websitesusi.theochem.tuwien.ac.at

The WIEN2k package is a

quantum mechanical calculations on periodic solids. It uses the full-potential (linearized) augmented plane-wave and local-orbitals [FP-(L)APW+lo] basis set to solve the Kohn–Sham equations of density functional theory
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WIEN2k was originally developed by Peter Blaha and Karlheinz Schwarz from the Institute of Materials Chemistry of the

Vienna University of Technology. The first public release of the code was done in 1990.[4] Then, the next releases were WIEN93, WIEN97, and WIEN2k.[5] The latest version WIEN2k_23.2 was released in February 2023.[6]
It has been licensed by more than 3400 user groups and has about 16000 citations on Google scholar (Blaha WIEN2k).

WIEN2k uses density functional theory to calculate the electronic structure of a solid. It is based on the most accurate scheme for the calculation of the bond structure-the full potential energy (linear) augmented plane wave ((L) APW) + local orbit (lo) method. WIEN2k uses an all-electronic solution, including relativistic terms.

Features and calculated properties

WIEN2k works with both centrosymmetric and non-centrosymmetric lattices, with 230 built-in space groups. It supports a variety of functionals including

spin-orbit coupling and Van der Waals terms. It can be used for structure optimization, both unit cell dimensions and internal atomic positions. For the latter an adaptive fixed-point iteration is used which simultaneously solves for atomic positions and the electron density.[7] The code supports both OpenMP and MPI
parallelization, which can be used efficiently in combination. It also supports parallelization by dispatching parts of the calculations to different computers.

A number of different properties can be calculated using the densities, many of these in packages which have been contributed by users over the years. WIEN2K can be used to calculate:

See also

  • List of quantum chemistry and solid state physics software

References

  1. ^ a b "WIEN2k". Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  2. ^ "WIEN2k-Computer requirements". Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  3. ^ a b "Request and Registration". Retrieved 2018-07-29.
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