Features
- Written in Python and C++
- Support to simulate the XRD (X-Ray Diffraction) pattern
- Generating 3D 2D 1D,and van der Waals (vdW)crystal structures with symmetry constraints
- Restart the search at any time during the search
- Support JSON format as input, be concise and easy to use
- First-principles genetic algorithm (GA) for structural search
- AISP currently interfaces with Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) to perform local optimizations in energy and force
- AISP will support simulated annealing algorithm, and many hybrid optimization algorithms to do structure search
- AISP will support Quantum ESPRESSO, Gaussian, Openmx, Siesta ... etc as optimizers in the future