The Dalton quantum chemistry program system

Kestutis Aidas, Celestino Angeli, Keld Lars Bak, Vebjørn Bakken, Radovan Bast, Linus Boman, Ove Christiansen, Renzo Cimiraglia, Sonia Coriani, Pål Dahle, Erik K. Dalskov, Ulf Ekström, Thomas Enevoldsen, Janus Juul Eriksen, Patrick Ettenhuber, Berta Fernández, Lara Ferrighi, Heike Fliegl, Luca Frediani, Kasper HaldAsger Halkier, Christof Hättig, Hanne Heiberg, Trygve Helgaker, Alf Christian Hennum, Hinne Hettema, Eirik Hjertenæs, Stinne Høst, Ida-Marie Høyvik, Maria Francesca Iozzi, Branislav Jansik, Hans Jørgen Aagaard Jensen, Dan Jonsson, Poul Jørgensen, Joanna Kauczor, Sheela Kirpekar, Thomas Kjærgaard, Wim Klopper, Stefan Knecht, Rika Kobayashi, Henrik Koch, Jacob Kongsted, Andreas Krapp, Kasper Kristensen, Andrea Ligabue, Ola B. Lutnæs, Juan I. Melo, Kurt Valentin Mikkelsen, Rolf H. Myhre, Christian Neiss, Christian B. Nielsen, Patrick Norman, Jeppe Olsen, Jógvan Magnus Haugaard Olsen, Anders Osted, Martin J. Packer, Filip Pawlowski, Thomas B. Pedersen, Patricio F. Provasi, Simen Reine, Zilvinas Rinkevicius, Torgeir A. Ruden, Kenneth Ruud, Vladimir Rybkin, Pawel Salek, Claire C. M. Samson, Alfredo Sánchez de Merás, Trond Saue, Stephan P. A. Sauer, Bernd Schimmelpfennig, Kristian Sneskov, Arnfinn H. Steindal, Kristian O. Sylvester–Hvid, Peter R. Taylor, Andrew M. Teale, Erik I. Tellgren, David P. Tew, Andreas J. Thorvaldsen, Lea Thøgersen, Olav Vahtras, Mark A. Watson, David J. D. Wilson, Marcin Ziolkowski, Hans Ågren

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Abstract

Dalton is a powerful general-purpose program system for the study of molecular electronic structure at the Hartree–Fock, Kohn–Sham, multiconfigurational self-consistent-field, Møller–Plesset, configuration-interaction, and coupled-cluster levels of theory. Apart from the total energy, a wide variety of molecular properties may be calculated using these electronic-structure models. Molecular gradients and Hessians are available for geometry optimizations, molecular dynamics, and vibrational studies, while magnetic resonance and optical activity can be studied in a gauge-origininvariant manner. Frequency-dependent molecular properties can be calculated using linear, quadratic, and cubic response theory. A large number of singlet and triplet perturbation operators are available for the study of one-, two-, and three-photon processes. Environmental effects may be included using various dielectric-medium and quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics models. Large molecules may be studied using linear-scaling and massively parallel algorithms. Dalton is distributed at no cost from http://www.daltonprogram.org for a number of UNIX platforms.
Original languageEnglish
JournalWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science
Volume4
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)269-284
Number of pages16
ISSN1759-0876
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Keywords

  • Faculty of Science
  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Ab initio electronic structure methods structure methods
  • Electronic Structure Theory:

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