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Nov 15, 2010

An efficient implementation of a QM–MM method in SIESTA.

We present the major features of a new implementation of a QM-MM method that uses the DFT code SIESTA to treat the quantum mechanical subsystem and the AMBER force field to deal with the classical part. The computation of the electrostatic interaction has been completely revamped to treat periodic boundary conditions exactly, using a real-space grid that encompasses the whole system. Additionally, we present a new parallelization of the SIESTA grid operations that provides near-perfect load balancing for all the relevant operations and achieves a much better scalability, which is important for efficient massive QM-MM calculations in which the grid can potentially be very large.

+ DOI:10.1007/s00214-010-0816-5