Every method, with the label the manual gives it.
vibe-qc implements each electronic-structure method itself; established codes serve only as out-of-process references. Not every route is at the same stage, so each family below carries one of four labels. The manual is the source of truth: the feature matrix has the full option tables and the roadmap lists the experimental lines.
Four labels, one rule: the output tells you which one applies.
An experimental route emits an ExperimentalWarning every time it runs and
records method_status = "experimental" in the run manifest, so a research
result never slips into a script unnoticed. A gated route refuses with a scientific
message rather than returning a number it cannot stand behind.
- production 39 families
- Validated within its documented scope and covered by the release gate.
- preview 8 families
- Reachable and maintained, with a narrower validation envelope. The output names the caveat.
- experimental 12 families
- Emits an ExperimentalWarning at runtime. Research output, not validated for published numbers, and not release-gated.
- gated 2 families
- Fails closed with a scientific error message until the missing terms are implemented and validated.
61 method families
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Molecular mean field
Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham DFT on Gaussian basis sets, validated against PySCF to machine precision for HF and to grid accuracy for DFT.
- production
Analytic nuclear gradients, analytic and finite-difference Hessians, direct and in-core Fock builds.
- production
Over 500 libxc functionals: LDA, GGA, meta-GGA, global and range-separated hybrids, VV10 and double hybrids. Range-separated and VV10 gradients fall back to finite differences and say so in the output.
- experimental
External PyTorch provider behind the [skala] extra. Energies only, at a fixed geometry.
- production
Native D3(BJ). D4 runs through the dftd4 package; the native D4 backend is parity-validated for H, He and B to Ne only and refuses other elements.
- production
Tuned basis plus dispersion, geometric counterpoise and short-range corrections in one keyword. Calibrated on molecules; the periodic flavours need recalibration.
- experimental
An opt-in second integral engine for molecules and crystals: exact, RI, multipole (BUPO) or RI-BUPO Coulomb and exact or RI exchange, with an explicit resource budget and the executed provider recorded. The exact build matches libint to 1e-10 Ha; libint stays the default.
- production
RIJCOSX energies within 0.3 mHa of ORCA on glycine/def2-TZVP. The RIJCOSX gradient carries the documented grid-response residual.
- production
libecpint with the Stuttgart-Koeln MDF and LANL2DZ libraries plus per-basis sidecars. ECP-aware analytic gradients on all four molecular drivers.
- production
Conductor-like screening with analytic gradients for HF and DFT. COSMO-RS thermodynamics on the same surface is experimental; solvent with correlated methods is gated.
- production
255 bundled Gaussian sets including the solid-state pob family, on-demand Basis Set Exchange rendering, and the vibe-basis exponent optimiser.
Semiempirical methods and machine-learned potentials
Fast energy surfaces for screening and preoptimisation. Only MSINDO is validated as production within its scope; the status page for each family says what it has been checked against.
- production
Independent implementation for H to Xe with COSMO, NEB, molecular dynamics, metadynamics and conical-intersection optimisation. Production within the documented scope.
- preview
Screening and preoptimisation with in-house parameters. No DFTB+ parity; absolute energies are not claimable while the repulsive is a placeholder.
- experimental
Molecular Hamiltonian, analytic gradients and Gamma-periodic derivatives are implemented; external xtb parity and periodic AES electrostatics remain production gates.
- experimental
Molecular development route. MOPAC heat-of-formation parity is open; periodic PM6 is experimental.
- experimental
Retirement target: still executable as molecular prescreening, no periodic target, scheduled for removal from the public portfolio.
- gated
Recognised spelling that fails closed. The feathered electrostatics are not implemented and PM7 has never been executable in any release.
- experimental
MSINDO, DFTB, GFN2-xTB and PM6 on a finite cyclic cluster in one, two and three dimensions, with opt-in Madelung embedding.
- production
An external pre-trained model behind the optional [mace] extra, attributed as such. vibe-qc drives its forward pass for energies, forces, optimisation and NEB; it is not a vibe-qc electronic-structure method.
Periodic systems
Crystalline-orbital HF and KS-DFT for wires, slabs and crystals with Monkhorst-Pack sampling. Three Coulomb routes are production; the cyclic cluster lines are research.
- production
Microhartree parity with PySCF on LiH and MgO, mixed density fitting for dense crystals, closed-shell slab analytic gradients. A 1-D wire is refused and runs as a 3-D cell with transverse vacuum.
- production
Serial route with Gamma RHF/UHF/RKS/UKS, multi-k pure DFT, Gamma analytic gradients and DFT+U, production within that envelope. The run description carries an experimental tag and the grid build warns once while the surrounding family (GAPW defaults, multi-k hybrids) is completed.
- experimental
Not the automatic default. Molecular-limit Gamma HF and block-construction DFT ship; compact-crystal augmentation validation is pending.
- production
Gamma and multi-k RHF/UHF/RKS/UKS with finite-difference forces and fixed-cell relaxation. Analytic gradients are a preview; the quartet multipole far field is gated.
- experimental
RI-J from the native GDF loop plus periodic chain-of-spheres exchange on true multi-k meshes.
- production
Vacuum-free two-dimensional Ewald for RHF, RKS and UKS; selected automatically for every slab.
- preview
run_periodic_job(method="dlpno-ccsd(t)") on an RHF or UHF GDF reference at Gamma or on a k mesh folded to the Born-von Karman supercell, with the molecular local-correlation engine. Full domains reproduce PySCF KRCCSD(T); accuracy at the shipped thresholds on real crystals is not yet measured.
- preview
symmetry_reduce_k=True builds exchange only at the irreducible-wedge representatives and transports it over each star; energies equal the full mesh to roundoff.
- preview
Restricted open-shell SCF on the GDF and GPW routes with integer occupations; gradients, smearing and slabs fail closed.
- production
Anderson, Broyden and Kerker mixing with an automatic k-point and smearing recommender.
- production
Dudarev rotationally invariant correction on the GPW route, Gamma and multi-k RKS.
- production
k-path sampling, Gaussian-broadened and Mulliken-projected densities of states, projected band weights.
- production
Energy-resolved crystal orbital overlap and Hamilton populations on the GDF routes, computed with the analysed spin Hamiltonian; skipped with a stated reason on BIPOLE, AICCM and external-XC routes.
- production
k-space Mayer indices; critical-point search and bond-path tracing on periodic and molecular densities.
- preview
Finite displacement on the analytic GAPW force at the Gamma point only; multi-k phonons are not wired.
- preview
Finite-difference stress on GPW, GAPW and the semiempirical routes. Variable-cell relaxation fails closed on the ab initio routes.
- experimental
Embedded-surface calculator on a validated 3D Gaussian foundation; thick-slab parity is pending, so absolute energies are qualitative.
- experimental
Two independent research lines, Gamma-CCM and chi-CCM, from HF through DLPNO correlation on a finite Born-von Karman torus. Every driver warns and no cross-approach result is reportable yet.
- experimental
Distributed Hartree build behind the [mpi] extra, pending validation on a real multi-rank run.
Workflows, properties and interchange
What you do with an energy surface once you have one, and how results leave the program.
- production
ASE and native optimisers; molecular IRC by mass-weighted damped steepest descent. Periodic IRC fails closed.
- production
Climbing-image NEB through ASE on any calculator with forces.
- production
Velocity-Verlet, Berendsen and Nose-Hoover dynamics on any surface with forces; well-tempered metadynamics on the same driver; penalty-function MECI optimisation from two tracked states.
- production
Analytic RHF/UHF/RKS/UKS Hessians and finite-difference Hessians for everything else; rigid-rotor harmonic-oscillator thermochemistry.
- production
Coupled-perturbed HF for closed shells.
- production
Emitted into every population sidecar; IAO and IBO analysis with three bonding criteria.
- production
Single-orbital entropies, mutual information and entanglement bond orders on a correlated reduced density matrix; the convenience density wrapper is an approximation.
- preview
LMO-EDA and Kitaura-Morokuma terms for two closed-shell Hartree-Fock fragments in the dimer basis, summing to the interaction energy. Kohn-Sham, open-shell and ECP inputs are refused; there is no run_job keyword yet.
- gated
NPA raises NotImplementedError until occupancy-weighted natural atomic orbitals land; the NBO search is a provisional Python helper, not a complete NAO/NBO implementation.
- production
Third-order Birch-Murnaghan fits with quality gates; atomisation energies against free-atom references at the same level.
- production
Densities and orbitals for molecules and crystals; Fermi surfaces for XCrySDen.
- production
One QVF archive per run for vibe-view; TREXIO and QCSchema interchange; CIF, POSCAR and extended XYZ readers with symmetrisation; vqfetch for OPTIMADE, Materials Project, COD and NIST data.