Program Overview
Overview of the TURBOMOLE Program
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TURBOMOLE has been specially designed for UNIX workstations as well as PCs and efficiently exploits the capabilities of this type of hardware. TURBOMOLE consists of a series of modules; their use is facilitated by various tools.

Outstanding features of TURBOMOLE

  • Direct and semi-direct algorithms with adjustable main memory and disk space requirements
  • Full use of all finite point groups
  • Efficient integral evaluation
  • Stable and accurate grids for numerical integration
  • Low memory and disk space requirements
Feature list
  • Key methods
    • Restricted, unrestricted, and restricted open-shell wavefunctions
    • Density Functional Theory (DFT) including most of the popular exchange-correlation functionals, i.e. LDA, GGA, hybrid functionals.
    • Hartree-Fock (HF) and DFT response calculations: stability, dynamic response properties, and excited states
    • Two-component relativistic calculations including spin-orbit interactions for all exchange- correlation functionals
    • Second-order Møller-Plesset (MP2) perturbation theory for large molecules
    • Second-order approximate coupled-cluster (CC2) method for ground and excited states
    • Treatment of Solvation Effects with the Conductor-like Screening Model (COSMO)
    • Universal force field (UFF)
  • Key properties
    • Structure optimization to minima and saddle points (transition structures)
    • Analytical vibrational frequencies and vibrational spectra for HF and DFT, numerical for all other methods
    • NMR shielding constants for DFT, HF, and MP2 method
    • Ab initio molecular dynamics (MD)
  • DFT and HF ground and excited states
    • Efficient implementation of the Resolution of Identity (RI) and Multipole Accelerated Resolution of Identity (MARI) approximations allow DFT calculations for molecular systems of unprecedented sizes containing hundreds of atoms
    • Ground state analytical force constants, vibrational frequencies and vibrational spectra
    • Empirical dispersion correction for DFT calculations
    • Eigenvalues of the electronic Hessian (stability analysis)
    • Frequency-dependent polarizabilities and optical rotations
    • Vertical electronic excitation energies
    • Transition moments, oscillator and rotatory strengths of electronic excitations, UV-VIS and CD spectra
    • Gradients of the ground and excited state energy with respect to nuclear positions; excited and ground state equilibrium structures; adiabatic excitation energies, emission spectra
    • Exited state electron densities, charge moments, population analysis
    • Excited state force constants by numerical differentiation of gradients, vibrational frequencies and vibrational spectra
  • MP2 and CC2 methods
    • Efficient implementation of the Resolution of Identity (RI) approximation for enhanced performance
    • Closed-shell HF and unrestricted UHF reference states
    • Sequential and parallel (with MPI) implementation (with the exception of MP2-R12)
    • Ground state energies and gradients for MP2, spin-component scaled MP2 (SCS-MP2) and CC2
    • Ground state energies for MP2-R12
    • Excitation energies for CC2, ADC(2) and CIS(D)
    • Transition moments for CC2
    • Excited state gradients for CC2 and ADC(2)