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  • Keywords Index
  • General
    • Introduction
      • Functionality
      • Applicability
      • Model Hamiltonian
      • Analysis
      • Technical
      • Fragments
        • Basic atoms
        • Automatic mode
      • Slater-type basis sets
    • What’s new in ADF 2020
      • ADF is an AMS Engine
      • Bug ADF2006 - ADF2020
      • New Defaults
      • New features
    • AMSification of ADF
      • Restructuring of the input
      • Restructuring of input keys
      • Example shell script changes
      • Automatic tool for conversion of ADF2019 shell scripts
    • Input, execution and output
      • ADF specific files
    • Feature List
      • Model Hamiltonians
      • Structure and Reactivity
      • Spectroscopic properties
      • Charge transport properties
      • Analysis
      • Accuracy and Efficiency
    • Technical remarks, Terminology
      • Density functional theory
      • The Kohn-Sham MO model
      • Basis functions and orbitals
        • Cartesian function sets, spurious components
        • Frozen core: Core Orbitals and Core Functions
        • Symmetry
        • Orthonormal basis
        • Fragments
        • Summary of functions and orbitals
        • Acronyms
      • Coulomb potential evaluation, density fitting
      • Three-step build-up of the bonding
      • Transition State procedure
  • Input, execution, and output
    • Input
      • General remarks on input structure and parsing
      • Keys
      • Blocks
      • Including an external file
      • Units
      • Title, comment
      • Amsification of ADF in ADF2020
      • Input parsing changes in ADF2018 and later
        • New syntax for a few keywords
        • Strict parsing of input file
    • Execution
    • Structure of the Output
      • Job Characteristics on standard Output
      • Log file, adf.rkf, TAPE13
  • Coordinates, Basis sets, Fragments
    • Atomic coordinates
      • Cartesian
      • Z-Matrix
      • Orientation of Local Atomic Coordinates
      • Symmetry Key
    • Basis sets and atomic fragments
      • STO basis sets
      • Available basis sets
      • The Basis Key
      • Automatic mode
      • Create mode
      • Ghost Atoms, Non-standard Chemical Elements
        • Automatic mode
      • Nuclear Model
    • Molecular fragments
      • Fragment mode
      • Fragment files
  • Model Hamiltonians
    • Electronic Configuration
      • Charge and Spin
        • Spin: restricted vs. unrestricted
        • Unrestricted and Spin-Orbit Coupling
        • Net Charge
      • Orbital occupations: electronic configuration, excited states
        • Aufbau, smearing, freezing
        • Explicit occupation numbers
        • CHARGE and SPINPOLARIZATION vs. IRREPOCCUPATIONS
        • Create mode
      • Frozen core approximation
      • Spin-polarized start-up potential
        • Spin-flip method for broken symmetries
        • Modify the starting potential
      • Unrestricted fragments
        • Prepared for bonding
      • Simulated unrestricted fragments with key FRAGOCCUPATIONS
        • Prepared for bonding
        • FRAGOCCUPATIONS
      • Remove Fragment Orbitals
      • CDFT: Constrained Density Functional Theory
    • Density Functionals (XC)
      • LDA
      • GGA
      • MetaGGA
      • Hartree-Fock
      • Hybrid
      • Meta-Hybrid
      • Range separated hybrids
        • RangeSep + XCFun: Yukawa-range separated hybrids
        • Range-separated hybrids with LibXC
      • Notes on Hartree-Fock and (meta-)hybrid functionals
      • Post-SCF correlation methods
        • Double-Hybrid
        • MP2-methods
        • RPA
        • Notes on MP2, double-hybrid functionals and RPA
      • Model Potentials
      • Optimized effective potentials
      • XCFun
      • LibXC
      • Dispersion corrections
        • DFT-D4 functionals
        • DFT-D3 functionals
        • DFT-D functionals
        • dDsC: density dependent dispersion correction
        • DFT-ulg
        • DFT-MBD functionals
      • Post-SCF energy functionals
        • GGA energy functionals
        • Meta-GGA and hybrid energy functionals
        • Post Hartree-Fock energy functionals
    • Relativistic effects
      • Pauli
      • ZORA
      • X2C and RA-X2C
      • Spin-Orbit coupling
    • Solvents and other environments
      • COSMO: Conductor like Screening Model
      • SM12: Solvation Model 12
      • Quild
      • DIM/QM: Discrete Interaction Model/Quantum Mechanics
        • DRF
        • Surface-enhanced response properties
        • Input options
        • EXTERNALS key for DRF
      • FDE: Frozen Density Embedding
        • Fragment-specific FDE options
        • Kinetic energy approximants
        • General FDE options
        • Frozen Density Embedding with External Orthogonality
        • FDE and (localized) COSMO
        • Subsystem TDDFT, coupled FDE
        • Restrictions and pitfalls
      • SCRF: Self-Consistent Reaction Field
      • VSCRF: Vertical Excitation Self-Consistent Reaction Field
      • 3D-RISM: 3D reference Interaction Site Model
    • Electric Field: Homogeneous, Point Charges, Polarizability
  • Structure and Reactivity
    • Single point calculations
    • Geometry optimization
    • Transition state search
    • Linear Transit, PES scan
    • Nudged Elastic Band (NEB)
    • Intrinsic Reaction Coordinate (IRC)
    • Excited state optimizations
    • Molecular dynamics
  • Gradients, Hessian, Thermodynamics
    • Gradients
    • Hessian
    • PES point character
    • Thermodynamics, gas phase Gibbs free energy
  • Spectroscopic properties
    • Vibrational Spectroscopy
      • IR frequencies and normal modes
        • Analytical Hessian
      • (Resonance) Raman
      • VROA: (Resonance) vibrational Raman optical activity
      • VCD: Vibrational Circular Dichroism
    • Time-dependent DFT
      • General remarks on the Response and Excitation functionality
      • Analysis options for TDDFT (excitation energies and polarizabilities)
      • Time-dependent Current DFT
        • Magnetic properties within TDCDFT
    • Excitation energies: UV/Vis, X-ray, CD, MCD
      • Excitation energies, UV/Vis spectra
        • Tamm-Dancoff approximation
        • Full XC kernel
        • Plasmons in Molecules
        • Accuracy and other technical parameters
      • Excitation energies for open-shell systems
      • Spin-flip excitation energies
      • Select (core) excitation energies, X-ray absorption
        • State selective optimization excitation energies
        • Modify range of excitation energies
        • Excitations as orbital energy differences
        • Quadrupole intensities in X-ray spectroscopy
      • XES: X-ray emission spectroscopy
      • Excitation energies and Spin-Orbit coupling
        • Perturbative inclusion of spin-orbit coupling
        • Self-consistent spin-orbit coupling
        • Highly approximate spin-orbit coupled excitation energies open shell molecule
      • CV(n)-DFT: Constricted Variational DFT
      • HDA: Hybrid Diagonal Approximation
      • TD-DFT+TB
      • sTDA, sTDDFT
      • CD spectra
      • MCD
      • Analysis
        • NTO: Natural Transition Orbitals
        • SFO analysis
        • Charge-transfer descriptors
    • Excited state (geometry) optimizations
      • Nuclear gradients only
    • Vibrationally resolved electronic spectra
      • AH-FC: Adiabatic Hessian Franck-Condon
      • VG-FC: Vertical Gradient Franck-Condon
    • (Hyper-)Polarizabilities, ORD, magnetizabilities, Verdet constants
      • RESPONSE: (Hyper-)Polarizabilities, ORD
        • RESPONSE: Polarizabilities
        • RESPONSE: Accuracy and convergence
        • RESPONSE: Hyperpolarizabilities
        • RESPONSE: Optical rotation dispersion (ORD)
      • AORESPONSE: Lifetime effects, (Hyper-)polarizabilities, ORD, magnetizabilities, Verdet constants
        • AORESPONSE: Polarizabilities
        • AORESPONSE: Technical parameters and expert options
        • AORESPONSE: Damped First Hyperpolarizabilities
        • AORESPONSE: Damped Second Hyperpolarizabilities
        • AORESPONSE: ORD
        • AORESPONSE: magnetizabilities, Verdet constants, Faraday B term
        • AORESPONSE: Raman
        • Applications of AORESPONSE
      • POLTDDFT: Damped Complex Polarizabilities
        • UV/Vis spectra, CD spectra
        • Reduced fit set
      • Van der Waals dispersion coefficients
        • DISPER program: Dispersion Coefficients
    • Ligand Field and Density Functional Theory (LFDFT)
      • Introduction
      • Input description
    • NMR
      • NMR Chemical Shifts
        • Important notes
        • Input options
      • Paramagnetic NMR Chemical Shifts
      • NMR spin-spin coupling constants
        • Introduction
        • Input file for CPL: adf.rkf
        • Running CPL
        • Practical Aspects
    • ESR/EPR
      • ESR/EPR g-tensor and A-tensor
      • ESR/EPR Q-tensor
      • ESR/EPR Zero-field splitting (D-tensor)
    • Nuclear Quadrupole Interaction (EFG)
    • Mössbauer spectroscopy
    • GW (G0W0)
    • Recommendations
    • Trouble-shooting
  • Transport properties
    • Charge transfer integrals (transport properties)
      • Charge transfer integrals with the TRANSFERINTEGRALS key
      • Charge transfer integrals with FDE
    • GREEN: Non-self-consistent Green’s function calculation
      • Introduction
      • Wide-band-limit
      • Input options
      • Output
      • GREEN with ADF-GUI
  • Analysis
    • Molecules built from fragments
    • Bond energy analysis
      • Bond energy details
      • Notes on double-hybrid functionals and MP2
      • Total energy evaluation
      • Interacting Quantum Atoms (IQA)
    • Localized Molecular Orbitals
      • Perturbed Localized Molecular Orbitals
    • Advanced charge density and bond order analysis
      • Charges, Populations
      • Bond orders
      • ETS-NOCV: Natural Orbitals for Chemical Valence
      • Adfnbo, gennbo: NBO analysis
        • NBO analysis of EFG, NMR chemical shifts, NMR spin-spin coupling
      • QTAIM: Atoms in Molecules
        • Local, atomic, and non-local properties
        • ADF2AIM
        • Aromaticity index with QTAIM
      • Conceptual DFT
        • Global, atomic, and non-local descriptors
        • Domains of the dual descriptor
      • adf2damqt: DAMQT interface
      • FOD: fractional orbital density
    • Controlling printed Output
      • Print / NoPrint
      • Debug
      • Eprint
      • Eprint subkeys vs. Print switches
      • Other Eprint subkeys
      • Reduction of output
    • Results on Output
      • Electronic Configuration
      • Mulliken populations
      • Hirshfeld charges, Voronoi deformation density
      • Multipole derived charges
      • Charge model 5
      • Bond order analysis
      • Dipole moment, Quadrupole moment, Electrostatic potential
      • Fragments and Basis Functions
      • MO analysis
      • Bond energy analysis
    • Densf: Volume Maps
      • Input
      • Result: TAPE41
    • Dos: Density of States
      • Introduction
      • Mulliken population analysis
      • Density of states analyses based on Mulliken population analysis
      • Generalizations of OPDOS, GPDOS, PDOS
      • Input
    • VCD Analysis: VCDtools
    • PyFrag: Activation Strain Model Analysis
      • Requirements
      • Running PyFrag
      • Specifying the Trajectory
      • Molecular Fragments
      • ADF Options
      • Analysis Options
  • Accuracy and Efficiency
    • Precision and Self-Consistency
      • SCF
        • Main options
        • Energy-DIIS
        • Augmented Roothaan-Hall (ARH)
      • Numerical Integration
        • Becke Grid
        • Voronoi grid (deprecated)
        • Atomic radial grid
      • Density fitting
      • Hartree-Fock RI scheme
        • Old Hartree-Fock RI scheme
      • MBPT scheme
      • Dependency (basis set, fit set)
    • Basis Set Superposition Error (BSSE)
    • Control of Program Flow
      • Limited execution
      • Skipping
      • Ignore checks
    • Technical Settings
      • Memory usage
      • Direct SCF: recalculation of data
      • Vector length
      • Tails and old gradients
      • Linearscaling
      • All Points
      • Full Fock
      • Save info
  • Restarts
    • ADF Restart files
    • AMS restart file
    • The restart key
    • Structure of the restart file
  • Recommendations and Troubleshooting
    • Recommendations
      • Precision
      • Electronic Configuration
        • Spin-unrestricted versus spin-restricted, Spin states
      • What basis set should I use in ADF?
        • ZORA or non-relativistic calculation?
        • Large or small molecule?
        • Frozen core or all-electron?
        • Diffuse functions needed?
        • Normal or even-tempered basis?
        • What accuracy do the basis sets give?
      • Relativistic methods
    • Troubleshooting
      • License file corrupt
      • Recover from Crash
      • Memory Management
      • SCF Convergence Guidelines for ADF
      • Geometry Optimization troubleshooting
        • Very short bonds
      • Frequencies
        • Imaginary Frequencies
        • Geometry-displacement numbers in the logfile are not contiguous
      • Input ignored
      • SFO Populations
      • Error Aborts
      • Warnings
  • Appendices
    • Basis set file format
      • Sections
      • Example of a basis set file: Calcium
      • Extending a basis set
    • Elements of the Periodic Table
    • Multiplet States
      • Multiplet energies
    • Dirac program: relativistic core potentials
    • Symmetry
      • Schönfliess symbols and symmetry labels
        • TDDFT irrep labels
      • Molecular orientation requirements
    • Binary result files, KF browser
      • adf.rkf (TAPE21)
        • ams.rkf
        • Contents of adf.rkf
        • Using Data from adf.rkf
      • TAPE13
      • KF browser
    • Error messages
    • Warnings
  • Examples
    • Introduction
    • Model Hamiltonians
      • Special exchange-correlation functionals
        • Example: Asymptotically correct XC potentials: CO
        • Example: Meta-GGA energy functionals: OH
        • Example: Hartree-Fock: HI
        • Example: B3LYP: H2PO
        • Example: Long-range corrected GGA functional LCY-BP: H2O
        • Example: Range-separated functional CAMY-B3LYP: H2O
        • Example: Single point MP2
        • Example: Water Dimer SOS-AO-PARI-MP2
        • Example: Single point B2GPPLYP
        • Example: Water-MeOH - DODSCAN
        • Example: unrestricted MP2: Li
        • Example: G0W0@PBE calculation: H2O
        • Example: G0W0@PBE0 calculation: O3
        • Example: G0W0@PBE0 calculation: Phenol
        • Example: RPA@PBE calculation: H2O
        • Example: Grimme Molecular Mechanics dispersion-corrected functionals (DFT-D3-BJ)
        • Example: Density-Dependent Dispersion Correction (dDsC): CH4-dimer
        • Example: DFT-ulg Dispersion Correction: Benzene dimer T-shaped
      • ZORA and spin-orbit Relativistic Effects
        • Example: ZORA Relativistic Effects: Au2
        • Example: Spin-Orbit coupling: Bi and Bi2
        • Example: Spin-Orbit unrestricted non-collinear: Tl
        • Example: Excitation energies including spin-orbit coupling: AuH
        • Example: ZORA, X2C and RA-X2C: HgI2 = Hg + I2
      • Solvents, other environments
        • Example: COSMO: HCl
        • Example: solvation model SM12: Acetamide
        • Example: Electric Field: PtCO
        • Example: Electric Field, Point Charge: N2
        • Example: 3D-RISM: Glycine
      • FDE: Frozen Density Embedding
        • Example: FDE: H2O in water
        • Example: FDE freeze-and-thaw: HeCO2
        • Example: FDE energy: NH3-H2O
        • Example: FDE energy: unrestricted fragments: Ne-H2O
        • Example: FDE geometry optimization: H2O-Li(+)
        • Example: FDE NMR shielding: Acetonitrile in water
        • Example: FDE NMR spin-spin coupling: NH3-H2O
        • Example: Subsystem TDDFT, coupled FDE excitation energies
        • Example: FDE and COSMO: H2O-NH3
        • Example: FDE and COSMO: H2O-NH3
      • QM/MM calculations
      • Quild: Quantum-regions Interconnected by Local Descriptions
      • DIM/QM: Discrete Interaction Model/Quantum Mechanics
        • Example: DRF: H2O and H2O
        • Example: DRF: hyperpolarizability H2O in water
        • Example: DRF: scripting tool
        • Example: DRF2: Polarizability N2 on Ag68 + H2O
        • Example: CPIM: excitation energies N2 on silver cluster Ag68
        • Example: CPIM: polarizability N2 on silver cluster Ag68
        • Example: PIM: H2O on Ag2689
        • Example: PIM: Polarizability with local fields
        • Example: PIM: optimization N2 on silver cluster Ag68
        • Example: PIM: polarizability N2 on silver cluster Ag68
        • Example: PIM: Raman scattering N2 on silver cluster Ag68
        • Example: PIM: SEROA calculation N2 on silver cluster Ag68
        • Example: PIM: Multipole Method N2 on silver cluster Ag1415
    • Structure and Reactivity
      • Geometry Optimizations
        • Example: Geometry Optimization: H2O
        • Example: Restraint Geometry Optimization: H2O
        • Example: Constraint Geometry Optimization: H2O
        • Example: Initial Hessian
        • Example: Geometry optimization with an external electric field or point charges: LiF
      • Transition States, Linear Transits, Intrinsic Reaction Coordinates
        • Example: LT, Frequencies, TS, and IRC: HCN
        • Example: TS search using partial Hessian: C2H6 internal rotation
        • Example: Relativistic ZORA TS search: CH4 + HgCl2 <==> CH3HgCl + HCl
        • Example: TS reaction coordinate: F- + CH3Cl
        • Example: (non-)Linear Transit: H2O
      • Total energy, Multiplet States, S2, Localized hole, CEBE
        • Example: Total Energy calculation: H2O
        • Example: Multiplet States: [Cr(NH3)6]3+
        • Example: Calculation of S2: CuH+
        • Example: Localized Hole: N2+
        • Example: Broken spin-symmetry: Fe4S4
        • Example: Core-electron binding energies (CEBE): NNO
        • Example: Constrained DFT: H2O+ … H2O
    • Spectroscopic Properties
      • IR Frequencies, (resonance) Raman, VROA, VCD
        • Example: Numerical Frequencies: NH3
        • Example: Numerical Frequencies, spin-orbit coupled ZORA: UF6
        • Example: Numerical Frequencies, accurate Hartree-Fock: H2O
        • Example: Analytic Frequencies: CN
        • Example: Analytic Frequencies: CH4
        • Example: Analytic Frequencies: HI
        • Example: Mobile Block Hessian (MBH): Ethanol
        • Example: Mobile Block Hessian: CH4
        • Example: Raman: NH3
        • Example: Raman: HI
        • Example: Resonance Raman, excited state finite lifetime: HF
        • Example: Vibrational Raman optical activity (VROA): H2O2
        • Example: Resonance VROA: H2O2
        • Example: Raman and VROA for approximate modes
        • Example: Vibrational Circular Dichroism (VCD): NHDT
        • Example: unrestricted VCD: CHFClBr
      • Excitation energies: UV/Vis spectra, X-ray absorption, CD, MCD
        • Example: Excitation energies and polarizability: Au2
        • Example: Excitation energies open shell molecule: CN
        • Example: Spin-flip excitation energies: SiH2
        • Example: TDHF excitation energies: N2
        • Example: excitation energies CAM-B3LYP: Pyridine
        • Example: CAMY-B3LYP excitation energies: H2O
        • Example: Full XC kernel in excitation energy calculation: H2O+
        • Example: Use of xcfun in excitation energy calculations: H2O
        • Example: Core excitation energies: TiCl4
        • Example: X-Ray Absorption and Emission Quadrupole Oscillator strengths at the Cl K-edge: TiCl4
        • Example: (Core) Excitation energies including spin-orbit coupling: Ne
        • Example: Excitation energies perturbative spin-orbit coupling: AgI
        • Example: Excitation energies including spin-orbit coupling for open shell: PbF
        • Example: Circular Dichroism (CD) spectrum: DMO
        • Example: CD spectrum, hybrid functional: Twisted ethene
        • Example: MCD: H2O
        • Example: MCD including zero-field splitting: H2O
        • Example: CV(n)-DFT excitation energies: Formamide
        • Example: HDA excitation energies: NH3
        • Example: HDA spin-orbit coupled excitation energies: H2O
        • Example: TD-DFT+TB excitation energies: beta-Carotene
        • Example: sTDA excitation energies: Adenine
        • Example: sTDDFT excitation energies: Adenine
        • Example: sTDA excitation energies RS functional: Bimane
        • Example: sTDA excitation energies wB97: TCNE-Benzene
      • Excited state (geometry) optimizations
        • Example: Excited state geometry optimization: N2
        • Example: Excited state geometry optimization with a constraint: CH2O
        • Example: Spin-flip excited state geometry optimization: CH2
        • Example: Numerical Frequencies of an excited state: PH2
      • Vibrationally resolved electronic spectra
        • Example: Franck-Condon Factors: NO2
        • Example: Vibronic-Structure Tracking: Naphthalene
      • (Hyper-)Polarizabilities, dispersion coefficients, ORD, magnetizabilities, Verdet constants
        • Example: Polarizabilities including spin-orbit coupling: AgI
        • Example: damped first hyperpolarizability: LiH
        • Example: damped second hyperpolarizability: LiH
        • Example: Verdet constants: H2O
        • Example: Dispersion Coefficients: HF
        • Example: Optical Rotation Dispersion (ORD): DMO
        • Example: ORD, lifetime effects (key AORESPONSE): DMO
        • Example: Polarizability: first order perturbed density
        • Example: Hyperpolarizabilities of He and H2
        • Example: Damped Verdet constants: Propene
        • Example: Static magnetizability: H2O
        • Example: Dynamic magnetizability: H2O
        • Example: Time-dependent current-density-functional theory: C2H4:
        • Example: Damped complex polarizabilities with POLTDDFT: Au10
        • Example: POLTDDFT with hybrid functional: NH3
      • Ligand Field DFT (LFDFT)
        • Example: Ligand Field DFT: Co 2+
        • Example: Ligand Field DFT: f-d transitions in Pr 3+
      • NMR chemical shifts and spin-spin coupling constants
        • Example: NMR Chemical Shifts: HBr
        • Example: NMR Chemical Shifts: HgMeBr
        • Example: NMR Chemical Shifts, SAOP potential: CH4
        • Example: NMR Nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS): PF3
        • Example: NMR with B3LYP: PF3
        • Example: NMR Spin-spin coupling constants: C2H2
        • Example: NMR Spin-spin coupling constants, hybrid PBE0: HF
        • Example: NMR Spin-spin coupling constants, finite nucleus: PbH4
      • ESR/EPR g-tensor, A-tensor, Q-tensor, ZFS
        • Example: ESR g-tensor, A-tensor, Q-tensor, D-tensor: HfV
        • Example: ESR g-tensor, A-tensor, self consistent spin-orbit coupling: VO
        • Example: ESR g-tensor, A-tensor, perturbative spin-orbit coupling: HgF
        • Example: ESR spin-restricted and spin-unrestricted: TiF3
        • Example: ESR, X2C and RA-X2C: PdH
        • Example: Zero-field splitting (ZFS), ESR D-tensor: NH
        • Example: ZFS D tensor, including direct electron spin-spin part: Phenylnitrene
      • EFG, Mössbauer
        • Example: Mössbauer spectroscopy: Ferrocene
        • Example: Mössbauer with X2C: Hg compounds
    • Transport properties
      • Charge transfer integrals (transport properties)
        • Example: Charge transfer integrals: AT base pair
        • Example: Charge transfer integrals with FDE: water dimer
        • Example: Charge Recombination Calculation of Toluene and TCNE
        • Example: XCDFT: Charge Separation of an ethylene dimer
      • Non-self-consistent Green’s function calculation
        • Example: DOS and transmission: Aluminium
        • Example: Gold electrodes
        • Example: Benzenedithiol junction: Wide-Band-Limit
        • Example: Benzenedithiol junction
    • Analysis
      • Fragment orbitals, bond energy decomposition
        • Example: Compound Fragments: Ni(CO)4
        • Example: Fragments: PtCl4H2 2-
        • Example: Spin-unrestricted Fragments: H2
        • Example: Bond Energy analysis open-shell fragments: PCCP
        • Example: Analysis of NaCl using ionic fragments: Na+ and Cl-
        • Example: Electron Pair bonding in NaCl: open shell fragments
        • Example: Bond Energy analysis meta-GGA, (meta-)hybrids: Zn2, Cr2, CrH
        • Example: unrestricted EDA: Cu(C2H4)2
        • Example: unrestricted fragments: CH3I
        • Example: Spin-Orbit SFO analysis: TlH
        • Example: Activation Strain Model Analysis using PyFrag
      • Localized orbitals, bond orders, charge analysis
        • Example: (Perturbed) localized molecular orbitals in twisted Ethene
        • Example: Charge model 5 (CM5)
        • Example: Bond Orders
      • ETS-NOCV
        • Example: NOCV: ethylene – Ni-diimina
        • Example: NOCV: H+ – CO
        • Example: NOCV: CH2 – Cr(CO)5
        • Example: NOCV: CH3 – CH3
      • QTAIM
        • Example: QTAIM Analysis
        • Example: QTAIM Reactivity
        • Example: IQA/QTAIM analysis
        • Example: QTAIM Aromaticity indices
      • DOS: Density of states
        • Example: Density of States: Cu4CO
      • Third party analysis software
        • Example: adf2aim: convert an ADF adf.rkf to WFN format (for Bader analysis)
        • Example: NBO analysis: adfnbo, gennbo
        • Example: NBO analysis: EFG
        • Example: NBO analysis: NMR chemical shift
        • Example: NBO analysis: NMR spin-spin coupling
        • Example: Multiple excited state gradients: H2O
        • Example: Calculation of overlap of primitive basis functions
    • Accuracy and Efficiency
      • BSSE, SCF convergence, Frequencies
        • Example: Basis Set Superposition Error (BSSE): Cr(CO)5 +CO
        • Example: Troubleshooting SCF convergence: Ti2O4
        • Example: Rescan frequencies: NH3
      • Speed
        • Example: Multiresolution
    • Scripting
      • Prepare an ADF job and generate a report
        • Example: Single point for multiple xyz files: Bakerset
        • Example: Basis set and integration accuracy convergence test: Methane
        • Example: amsprep: Replace atom with ligand
    • List of Examples
  • Required Citations
    • General References
    • Feature References
      • Coordinates, basis sets, fragments
      • Geometry optimizations, transition states, and reaction paths
      • Model Hamiltonians
      • Relativistic Effects
      • Solvents and other environments
      • Frequencies, IR Intensities, Raman, VCD
      • Time-Dependent DFT
      • LFDFT
      • NMR
      • ESR/EPR
      • Transport properties: Non-self-consistent Green’s function
      • Analysis
      • Accuracy and efficiency
    • External programs and Libraries
  • Keywords
    • Summary of all keywords
ADF
  • Documentation/
  • ADF/
  • Input, execution, and output

Input, execution, and output¶

  • Input
    • General remarks on input structure and parsing
    • Keys
    • Blocks
    • Including an external file
    • Units
    • Title, comment
    • Amsification of ADF in ADF2020
    • Input parsing changes in ADF2018 and later
  • Execution
  • Structure of the Output
    • Job Characteristics on standard Output
    • Log file, adf.rkf, TAPE13
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