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1 Introduction

This guide covers the usage of the CP package, version 5.1.0, a core component of the QUANTUM ESPRESSO distribution. Further documentation, beyond what is provided in this guide, can be found in the directory CPV/Doc/, containing a copy of this guide.

This guide assumes that you know the physics that CP describes and the methods it implements. It also assumes that you have already installed, or know how to install, QUANTUM ESPRESSO. If not, please read the general User's Guide for QUANTUM ESPRESSO, found in directory Doc/ two levels above the one containing this guide; or consult the web site:
http://www.quantum-espresso.org.

People who want to modify or contribute to CP should read the Developer Manual:
Doc/developer_man.pdf.

CP can perform Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics, including variable-cell dynamics, and free-energy surface calculation at fixed cell through meta-dynamics, if patched with PLUMED.

The CP package is based on the original code written by Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello. CP was developed by Alfredo Pasquarello (IRRMA, Lausanne), Kari Laasonen (Oulu), Andrea Trave, Roberto Car (Princeton), Nicola Marzari (Univ. Oxford), Paolo Giannozzi, and others. FPMD, later merged with CP, was developed by Carlo Cavazzoni, Gerardo Ballabio (CINECA), Sandro Scandolo (ICTP), Guido Chiarotti (SISSA), Paolo Focher, and others. We quote in particular:

This guide has been mostly writen by Gerardo Ballabio and Carlo Cavazzoni.

CP is free software, released under the GNU General Public License.
See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt, or the file License in the distribution).

We shall greatly appreciate if scientific work done using this code will contain an explicit acknowledgment and the following reference:

P. Giannozzi, S. Baroni, N. Bonini, M. Calandra, R. Car, C. Cavazzoni, D. Ceresoli, G. L. Chiarotti, M. Cococcioni, I. Dabo, A. Dal Corso, S. Fabris, G. Fratesi, S. de Gironcoli, R. Gebauer, U. Gerstmann, C. Gougoussis, A. Kokalj, M. Lazzeri, L. Martin-Samos, N. Marzari, F. Mauri, R. Mazzarello, S. Paolini, A. Pasquarello, L. Paulatto, C. Sbraccia, S. Scandolo, G. Sclauzero, A. P. Seitsonen, A. Smogunov, P. Umari, R. M. Wentzcovitch, J.Phys.:Condens.Matter 21, 395502 (2009), http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2569


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