Orbital (Local) Optimization
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- C++
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Description
It would be useful to be able to perform orbital optimization. With the recent work of @ShuoyangW , we have the gradient (and soon, the Hessian) with respect to orbitals. Being able to wrap PyCI in an orbital optimizer is a good thing.
This basically means that one needs to be able to consider PyCI a function where 1- and 2-electron integrals are read in, and the energy and 1- and 2-electron density matrices come out. This then needs to be wrapped in another function that takes 1- and 2-electron integrals and performs a unitary transformation of them based on the step accepted from an optimizer, as the optimizer expects to receive the energy, gradient, and (perhaps) Hessian as a function of an argument (probably the antiHermitian matrix that generates the unitary transformation).
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or concrete entry points. Start by tracing how PyCI receives one- and two-electron integrals and produces energy and density matrices; the work is complete when those outputs can support an orbital optimizer using accepted unitary-transformation steps and the requested derivatives.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- hpc
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100