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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Dear Quantum-ESPRESSO users,</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">I'm very proud to announce the first
public release of a new code in the Quantum-ESPRESSO family. The <b>D3Q</b>
code can compute the third derivative of the total energy with
respect to three generic phonons. The code is much more efficient
than any finite differences code, using the 2n+1 theorem on top of
density functional perturbation theory (DFPT). The current release
can treat:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">insulators, semiconductors and
metals</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">LDA and GGA functionals</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">k-points</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">norm conserving pseudopotentials</p>
</li></ul>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span lang="en-US">The third
derivatives aren't of much use </span><span lang="en-US">by
themselves</span><span lang="en-US">, that's why we bundle the D3Q
code with </span><span lang="en-US">the </span><span lang="en-US"><b>thermal2</b></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span lang="en-US">suite of codes to compute intrinsic
phonon-phonon interactions and solve the Boltzmann transport
equation. This suite of codes can compute:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><b>phonon lifetime and linewidth
from ph-ph interaction</b></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">phonon self-energy from the
Bubble (thid order) diagram</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">final state decomposition of
phonon decay process, over energy and q-points</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">phonon spectral function</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><b>thermal conductivity in the
single mode approximation</b> (SMA) of the linearized Boltzmann
Transport Equation (BTE)</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><b>thermal conductivity with
exact solution of the BTE</b>. This solution is computed using a
variational form, minimized via a preconditioned conjugate gradient
algorithm: guaranteed to converge, usually in less than 10
iterations</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">inclusion of isotopic disorder
and mass substitution defects</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">effect of grain size and finite
transverse dimension (e.g. nanotubes) using the Casimir formalism</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">simultaneous calculation of many
temperatures/smearings</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">in addition to using our force
constants from DFPT, we support importing 3-body force constants
computed via finite differences with the thirdorder.py code
(experimental!)</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">parallel computing implemented
with MPI (with great scalability up to thousand of CPUs) and OpenMP
(optimal for memory reduction)</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">You can download the code (to be
compiled together with QE 5.4.0) including extensive examples,
tutorials and manuals from the project website on the qe-forge:<a href="http://www.qe-forge.org/gf/project/d3q/"> http://www.qe-forge.org/gf/project/d3q/</a>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">We have also set up a specific mailing
list for users help requests, available at: <a href="http://www.qe-forge.org/mailman/listinfo/d3q-users">http://www.qe-forge.org/mailman/listinfo/d3q-users</a><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">The main code authors for the D3Q and
thermal2 codes are Lorenzo Paulatto, Michele Lazzeri, Giorgia
Fugallo, Andrea Cepellotti, Tobias Wassmann, Francesco Mauri.
Contributions, in the form of code, testing or insight, have also
come from Nicola Marzari, Ion Errea, Raffaello Bianco, Maksim Markov,
Nathalie Vast, Davide Campi, Guilherme Ribeiro. The original d3.x
code, on which the current one is based, was also written by Stefano
de Gironcoli.</p>
<br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div>Dr. Lorenzo Paulatto </div><div>IdR @ IMPMC -- CNRS & Université Paris 6</div><div>phone: +33 (0)1 44275 084 / skype: paulatz</div><div>www: <a target="_blank" href="http://www-int.impmc.upmc.fr/%7Epaulatto/">http://www-int.impmc.upmc.fr/~paulatto/</a></div><div>mail: 23-24/4é16 Boîte courrier 115, 4 place Jussieu 75252 Paris Cédex 05</div></div>
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