Python-based Simulations of Chemistry Framework

2021-11-01

• Stable release 2.0.0
• Changelog
• Documentation
• Installation
• Features

Installation

• Install stable release

    pip install pyscf
  

• (Optionally) Extensions projects geomopt, dftd3, dmrgscf, doci, icmpspt, properties, semiempirical, shciscf ... (more on https://github.com/pyscf) can be installed using pip

    pip install pyscf[all]
  

  Install an individual extension

    pip install pyscf[dftd3]
  

• More details of custom install can be found in installation manual

Citing PySCF

The following paper should be cited in publications utilizing the PySCF program package:

PySCF: the Python‐based simulations of chemistry framework, Q. Sun, T. C. Berkelbach, N. S. Blunt, G. H. Booth, S. Guo, Z. Li, J. Liu, J. McClain, E. R. Sayfutyarova, S. Sharma, S. Wouters, G. K.-L. Chan (2018), WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci., 8: e1340. doi:10.1002/wcms.1340

Recent developments in the PySCF program package, Qiming Sun, Xing Zhang, Samragni Banerjee, Peng Bao, Marc Barbry, Nick S. Blunt, Nikolay A. Bogdanov, George H. Booth, Jia Chen, Zhi-Hao Cui, Janus J. Eriksen, Yang Gao, Sheng Guo, Jan Hermann, Matthew R. Hermes, Kevin Koh, Peter Koval, Susi Lehtola, Zhendong Li, Junzi Liu, Narbe Mardirossian, James D. McClain, Mario Motta, Bastien Mussard, Hung Q. Pham, Artem Pulkin, Wirawan Purwanto, Paul J. Robinson, Enrico Ronca, Elvira R. Sayfutyarova, Maximilian Scheurer, Henry F. Schurkus, James E. T. Smith, Chong Sun, Shi-Ning Sun, Shiv Upadhyay, Lucas K. Wagner, Xiao Wang, Alec White, James Daniel Whitfield, Mark J. Williamson, Sebastian Wouters, Jun Yang, Jason M. Yu, Tianyu Zhu, Timothy C. Berkelbach, Sandeep Sharma, Alexander Yu. Sokolov, and Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, J. Chem. Phys., 153, 024109 (2020). doi:10.1063/5.0006074

Bug reports and feature requests

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