Manual for SALMON-v.2.0.2

Nov 06, 2021

SALMON (Scalable Ab initio Light-Matter simulator for Optics and Nanoscience) is an open-source software based on first-principles time-dependent density functional theory to describe optical responses and electron dynamics in matters induced by light electromagnetic fields.

• Introduction
  • Overview
  • SALMON features
  • License
  • SALMON at Github
  • List of developers
  • Former developers
  • How to cite SALMON
• Install and Run
  • Prerequisites
  • Download
  • Build and Install
  • Files necessary to run SALMON
  • Run SALMON
  • Tips for large-scale calculation
  • Troubleshooting of the Installation Process
  • Appendix
• Exercises
  • Getting started
  • C2H2 (isolated molecules)
  • Crystalline silicon (periodic solids)
  • Maxwell + TDDFT multiscale simulation
  • Geometry optimization and Ehrenfest molecular dynamics
  • FDTD simulation(electromagnetic analysis)
• List of input keywords
  • &calculation
  • &control
  • &units
  • &parallel
  • &system
  • &atomic_red_coor
  • &atomic_coor
  • &pseudo
  • &functional
  • &rgrid
  • &kgrid
  • &tgrid
  • &propagation
  • &scf
  • &emfield
  • &singlescale[Trial]
  • &multiscale
  • &maxwell
  • &analysis
  • &poisson
  • &ewald
  • &opt[Trial]
  • &md[Trial]
  • &jellium
  • &code
• Release History
  • Release Notes
  • Details of Minor Changes
• Acknowledgements