Experimental

vibe-qc ships a handful of features behind an experimental gate. They are reachable, but not yet production-certified and subject to change without the usual deprecation cycle. Each one emits an ExperimentalWarning when used.

What’s in this section

  • The feature catalog is the complete table of every gated feature, its opt-in, its caveat, and its quantitative-status column. Start there if you want to know what’s gated and why.

  • Basis set development, developer documentation for the basis-set optimiser toolchain, design notes, and verification reports.

  • AICCM, the ab-initio cyclic cluster model, both Γ-CCM (aiccm2026dev-a, direct-torus) and χ-CCM[1] (aiccm2026dev-b, finite-character (Γ-centred character-mesh)).

Basis set development

Basis set development

AICCM: ab-initio cyclic cluster model

The cyclic cluster model is vibe-qc’s signature real-space approach to periodic systems. Two independent implementations are maintained while the common limit is being established:

  • aiccm2026dev-a, the direct-space Gamma-supercell CCM line (vibeqc.periodic.ccm). Full HF, KS, MP2, CCSD(T), and DLPNO stack on the BvK torus, with open-shell UCCSD(T) and derivable properties.

  • aiccm2026dev-b, χ-CCM, the finite-character (Γ-centred character-mesh) CCM line (vibeqc.periodic_aiccm2026dev_b). It uses the explicit Γ-centred character net, 1D/2D/3D RHF/RKS/UHF/UKS plus RI-MP2 and local-PNO CCSD(T).

Open-shell capabilities across both lines are documented in Open-shell AICCM.

AICCM examples

The runnable examples live under examples/periodic/:

The full Γ-CCM/χ-CCM/CRYSTAL fleet experiment inputs live under aiccm-2026/.

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Quickstart

Run your first Γ-CCM calculation

Γ-CCM tutorial

Run your first χ-CCM calculation

χ-CCM tutorial

See all Γ-CCM methods and routes

Γ-CCM reference

See all χ-CCM methods, backends, and caveats

χ-CCM user guide

Run open-shell (UHF, UCCSD(T))

Open-shell AICCM

Compare Γ-CCM and χ-CCM head-to-head

Cross-stream comparison

Choose the right basis set

Basis sets for AICCM

Debug a failing calculation

Troubleshooting

Generate orbital/density visualizations

Visualization

Understand the broad CCM concept

CCM tutorial

Understand the χ-CCM derivation

χ-CCM derivation

Understand the theory (Γ-CCM paper)

Γ-CCM theory paper

See also