Integrated workflows and interfaces for data-driven semi-empirical electronic structure calculations

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Stishenko, Pavel and McSloy, Adam and Onat, Berk and Hourahine, Ben and Maurer, Reinhard and Kermode, James and Logsdail, Andrew (2024) Integrated workflows and interfaces for data-driven semi-empirical electronic structure calculations. Journal of Chemical Physics, 161 (1). 012502. ISSN 0021-9606 (https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0209742)

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Abstract

Modern software engineering of electronic structure codes has seen a paradigm shift from monolithic workflows toward object-based modularity. Software objectivity allows for greater flexibility in the application of electronic structure calculations, with particular benefits when integrated with approaches for data-driven analysis. Here, we discuss different approaches to create deep modular interfaces that connect big-data workflows and electronic structure codes and explore the diversity of use cases that they can enable. We present two such interface approaches for the semi-empirical electronic structure package, DFTB+. In one case, DFTB+ is applied as a library and provides data to an external workflow; in another, DFTB+ receives data via external bindings and processes the information subsequently within an internal workflow. We provide a general framework to enable data exchange workflows for embedding new machine-learning-based Hamiltonians within DFTB+ or enabling deep integration of DFTB+ in multiscale embedding workflows. These modular interfaces demonstrate opportunities in emergent software and workflows to accelerate scientific discovery by harnessing existing software capabilities.

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Stishenko, Pavel, McSloy, Adam, Onat, Berk, Hourahine, Ben ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7667-7101, Maurer, Reinhard, Kermode, James and Logsdail, Andrew;
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