MOCharges API Question?
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Description
Right now (or maybe it's still a WIP?) MOCharges returns a number of centers by number of MOs matrix. The centers used are the ones in from space of the MOs. This could conceivably not be what the caller wants because: e.g., the same center was added to the AO basis set multiple times, there are ghost atoms, and/or there are mid-bond functions. My proposal is:
- we introduce a class
PointSetwhich is a container ofPointobjects (this would live in LibChemist) - Refactor the
Atomclass to inherit fromPointCharge(related to this issue) - Ensure
AOBasisSetandMoleculeare implicitly convertible toPointSet - Have
MOChargestake aPointSetinstance and aDerivedSpaceinstance
This allows the caller of MOCharges to specify the centers they care about.
Thoughts? Takers?
Edit: Also I propose the name MOPopulations since AFAIK this is simply counting the number of electrons at a point (the electronic charge would -2 times the matrix returned by this PT for restricted spatial orbitals).
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the current MOCharges API and how AOBasisSet, Molecule, Atom, and DerivedSpace are represented, then compare the proposed PointSet and Point abstractions with LibChemist. Confirm the intended PointCharge relationship and whether the API should be renamed MOPopulations. Done means callers can explicitly provide the centers and the behavior for repeated, ghost, and mid-bond functions is defined.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100