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1 Introduction

This guide covers the installation and usage of QUANTUM ESPRESSO (opEn-Source Package for Research in Electronic Structure, Simulation, and Optimization), version 4.3.2.

The QUANTUM ESPRESSO distribution contains the following core packages for the calculation of electronic-structure properties within Density-Functional Theory (DFT), using a Plane-Wave (PW) basis set and pseudopotentials (PP):

It also includes the following more specialized packages: The following auxiliary codes are included as well: A copy of required external libraries are included: Finally, several additional packages that exploit data produced by QUANTUM ESPRESSO or patch some QUANTUM ESPRESSO routines can be installed as plug-ins: This guide documents PWscf, NEB, CP, PHonon, PostProc. The remaining packages have separate documentation.

The QUANTUM ESPRESSO codes work on many different types of Unix machines, including parallel machines using both OpenMP and MPI (Message Passing Interface). Running QUANTUM ESPRESSO on Mac OS X and MS-Windows is also possible: see section 2.2.

Further documentation, beyond what is provided in this guide, can be found in:

People who want to contribute to QUANTUM ESPRESSO should read the Developer Manual: Doc/developer_man.pdf.

This guide does not explain the basic Unix concepts (shell, execution path, directories etc.) and utilities needed to run QUANTUM ESPRESSO; it does not explain either solid state physics and its computational methods. If you want to learn the latter, you should read a good textbook, such as e.g. the book by Richard Martin: Electronic Structure: Basic Theory and Practical Methods, Cambridge University Press (2004); or Density functional theory: a practical introduction, D. S. Sholl, J. A. Steckel (Wiley, 2009). See also the ``Learn'' section in the QUANTUM ESPRESSO web site; the ``Reference Papers'' section in the Wiki.

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Paolo Giannozzi 2011-07-17