3 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Abinit 2025: New Capabilities for the Predictive Modeling of Solids and Nanomaterials
Matthieu J. Verstraete, Joao Abreu, Guillaume E. Allemand +71
Abinit is a widely used scientific software package implementing density functional theory and many related functionalities for excited states and response properties. This paper p…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Handedness selection and hysteresis of chiral orders in crystals
Mauro Fava, Aldo H. Romero, Eric Bousquet
A phase transition can drive the spontaneous emergence of chiral orders in crystals below a critical temperature. However, selecting either a right- or a left-handed phase with the…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Pathways to crystal chirality An algorithm to identify new displacive chiral phase transitions
Fernando Gómez-Ortiz, Aldo H. Romero, Eric Bousquet
We present an algorithm that integrates pseudosymmetry search with first-principles calculations to systematically identify achiral parent structures and establish potential chiral…