Scientific Computing

Building Aluminium Slabs with ASE

Published: 2025-11-16

This comprehensive guide demonstrates how to construct aluminium slab and bulk structures using the Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE) in Python. We explore automated surface generation methods, structural transformations, and best practices for creating simulation-ready geometries in VASP format.

Extracting Optimised Structures from ABINIT Output Files Using Abipy

Published: 2025-11-16

This guide demonstrates how to extract optimised crystal structures from ABINIT's NetCDF output files using the Abipy library. The workflow presented here simplifies the process of retrieving final geometries, tracking optimisation trajectories, and exporting structures in multiple formats for further analysis.

ABINIT Configuration with UDTSET for Hydrogen Simulations

Published: 2025-11-15

This guide examines advanced dataset configuration techniques in ABINIT, demonstrating how the UDTSET feature enables efficient parametric studies and convergence testing through systematic variation of input parameters across multiple datasets in hydrogen molecular and atomic systems.

ABINIT Input Files for Hydrogen Simulations

Published: 2025-11-15

This post provides a look into the structure of an input file for ABINIT, a software package used for calculating the properties of materials. We will break down a multi-dataset input file for a simple Hydrogen system to understand the purpose of various key parameters.