CASM (https://github.com/prisms-center/CASMcode) is an open source software package designed to perform first-principles statistical mechanical studies of multi-component crystalline solids. CASM interfaces with first-principles electronic structure codes, automates the construction and parameterization of effective Hamiltonians and subsequently builds highly optimized (kinetic) Monte Carlo codes to predict finite-temperature thermodynamic and kinetic properties. CASM uses group theoretic techniques that take full advantage of crystal symmetry in order to rigorously construct effective Hamiltonians for almost arbitrary degrees of freedom in crystalline solids. This includes cluster expansions for configurational disorder in multi-component solids and lattice-dynamical effective Hamiltonians for vibrational degrees of freedom involved in structural phase transitions.
This version of CASM supports:
- Constructing, fitting, and evaluating cluster expansion effective Hamiltonians with:
- Occupational degrees of freedom
- Strain degrees of freedom
- Displacement degrees of freedom
- High-throughput calculations using:
- VASP
- (update for 1.X in progress) Quantum Espresso
- Monte Carlo calculations using:
- Semi-grand canonical ensemble
- Canonical ensemble
Collaboration is welcome and new features can be incorporated by forking the repository on GitHub, creating a new feature, and submitting pull requests. If you are interested in developing features that involve a significant time investment we encourage you to first contact the CASM development team at [email protected].
For a particular major version number, the ccasm program interface, including file input and output formats, will remain stable and backwards compatible. The CASM library libcasm is less stable and may have some breaking changes without changing the major version number.
CASM is developed by the Van der Ven group, originally at the University of Michigan and currently at the University of California Santa Barbara.
Lead developers: John C. Thomas and Brian Puchala
Developers: John Goiri and Anirudh Natarajan
Other contributors: Min-Hua Chen, Jonathon Bechtel, Max Radin, Elizabeth Decolvenaere, Anna Belak, Liang Tian, Naga Sri Harsha Gunda, Julija Vinckeviciute, Sanjeev Kolli
The development of CASM was made possible with support from:
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The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award #DE-SC0008637 that funds the PRedictive Integrated Structural Materials Science (PRISMS) Center at University of Michigan.
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The National Science Foundation under Awards DMR-1410242, DMR-1105672, DMR-1436154, and OAC-1642433.
Contact the developers at [email protected].
The CASM development team will periodically send email notifications regarding new releases, features, and bug fixes to the CASM users notification list. To join the list send an email to [email protected] or visit https://lists.engr.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/casm-users to sign up.
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Please see the file LICENSE for details.
See INSTALL.md