Elements: Libra: The Modular Software for Nonadiabatic and Quantum Dynamics

该项目致力于开发可重复使用的非绝热和量子动力学(NA/QD)算法和方法(元素)的模块化开源软件库(LIBRA)。在太阳能、功能和纳米材料科学方面的科学努力的持续进步需要先进的方法和软件组件，这些方法和软件组件可以用于模拟激发态的复杂动力学，包括电荷和能量转移。为研究人员提供由专家开发的先进方法，通过模块化软件组件对这些过程进行建模，可以在理论和计算化学、计算支持和数据驱动的材料科学方面实现新的突破，并可以在太阳能材料领域和其他领域促进进一步令人兴奋的创新。Libra软件将能够准确、可靠和高效地对原子系统中的激发态动力学进行建模，并应适合于快速和系统地开发新的、改进的建模方法。该项目将有助于更广泛的专业科学培训，并将支持教育和多样性。在该项目的过程中，PI将使用现代非绝热和量子动力学方法来增强和扩展LIBRA代码，从而能够准确和可靠地模拟太阳能材料中的电子和能量转移动力学。LIBRA程序与DFTB+程序包的接口将允许对含有1000+原子的分子和周期系统的激发态动力学进行建模，从而提供对可通过计算研究的新材料类别的访问。由此产生的软件将能够对计算上禁止研究的新类型的过程进行建模，例如纳米系统中的光诱导重组或激子捕获。该软件将能够考虑非绝热动力学中的多体效应，提高太阳能材料研究中计算预测的可靠性。该项目产生的软件和工具将有助于光伏新材料的基础研究和合理发现。NA/QD用户的大型研究社区将受益于在该项目中创建的新的、增强的软件和在线教育材料。开发内部解决方案但没有得到太多关注的多个研究小组将直接受益于天秤座图书馆，该图书馆将以模块化、易于使用的方式传播专家组的解决方案，并将促进其他人采用和重新使用这些解决方案。该项目将促进合作，并帮助将当今的研究努力和最佳软件开发做法纳入计算和材料研究领域。不同层次的学者将在有关激发态动力学的研讨会上接受教育。这一奖项由NSF高级网络基础设施办公室获得，由NSF数学和物理科学局内的化学部联合支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project endeavors to develop a modular open-source software library (Libra) of reusable nonadiabatic and quantum dynamics (NA/QD) algorithms and methods (elements). Sustained progress in scientific endeavors in solar energy, functional, and nanoscale material sciences requires advanced methods and software components that can be used to model the complex dynamics of excited states, including charge and energy transfer. Providing researchers with advanced expert-developed methods for modeling these processes via modular software components can enable new breakthroughs in theoretical and computational chemistry, computationally-enabled and data-driven material sciences, and can foster further exciting innovations in the solar energy materials domain and beyond. The Libra software will enable accurate, reliable, and efficient modeling of excited states dynamics in atomistic systems and should be suitable for the rapid and systematic development of new, improved modeling approaches. The project will contribute to a broader specialized scientific training and will support education and diversity.Over the course of this project the PI will enhance and extend the Libra code with modern nonadiabatic and quantum dynamics methodologies, thereby enabling accurate and reliable modeling of electron and energy transfer dynamics in solar energy materials. The interface of the Libra code with the DFTB+ package will enable modeling excited states dynamics in molecular and periodic systems with 1000+ atoms, thus providing access to new classes of materials that can be studied computationally. The resulting software will enable modeling new types of processes which were computationally-prohibitive to study, such as photoinduced reorganization or exciton trapping in nanoscale systems. The software will enable accounting for the many-body effects in nonadiabatic dynamics, improving the reliability of computational predictions in solar energy materials studies. The software and tools resulting from this project will contribute to fundamental research and rational discovery of novel photovoltaic materials. The large research community of NA/QD users will benefit from the new, enhanced software and online educational materials created in this project. Multiple research groups that develop in-house solutions that did not gain much attention will directly benefit from the Libra library, which will disseminate the expert groups' solutions in a modular, easy-to-use way, and will facilitate their adoption and re-use by others. The project will foster collaborations and help integrate the present-day research efforts and the best software development practices into the computational and materials research communities. Scholars of various levels will be educated during workshops on excited state dynamics.This award by the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure is jointly supported by the Division of Chemistry within the NSF Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.