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| [[The VASP Manual#Getting started|Getting started]] || Absolute beginners should start here and preferably work through the VASP workshop material.
| style="background-color:#EADEEF;"| [[Welcome|Take a tour]] || style="background-color:#EADEEF;"|[[Installing VASP.6.X.X|Install VASP]] || style="background-color:#EADEEF;"| [https://www.vasp.at/sign_in/registration_form/ Get a license]
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| [[:Category:Howto|The Howto's]] || Kind of a FAQ list of questions "How do I perform ... calculations with VASP".
|style="background-color:#F6D5DB;"| [[Changelog|Release notes]] ||style="background-color:#F6D5DB;"| [https://www.vasp.at VASP website and news] ||style="background-color:#F6D5DB;"| [https://www.vasp.at/forum/ Forum]
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| [[The VASP Manual#Examples|Example calculations]]|| May serve similar purposes as the above.
|style="background-color:#EDFAF9;"|[https://www.vasp.at/learn/ Learn], [[:Category:Examples|examples]], [[:Category:Tutorials|Wiki tutorials]]  ||style="background-color:#EDFAF9;"| {{py4vasp}} ||style="background-color:#EDFAF9;"| [https://www.vasp.at/sign_in/portal Portal]
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| [[:Category:INCAR|'''INCAR'''-tags]]|| Information on assorted input parameters/files.
|style="background-color:#D1DCFA;"| [[Known issues]] ||style="background-color:#D1DCFA;"| [https://www.vasp.at/tutorials/latest/ Tutorials]||style="background-color:#D1DCFA;"| [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBATkNZ7pkAXU9tx7GVhlaw Lectures]
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| [[:Category:Theory| Theoretical Background]]|| Important relations covering PAW, DFT etc.
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== Installation and validation ==
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[[Installing VASP|How to install VASP]] and validate your installation by means of [[Validating VASP|the VASP test suite and benchmarks]].
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[[The VASP Manual#toc|Back to the top]]
|style="background-color:#EADEEF; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Theory| Theoretical background]]|| style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[Pseudopotentials]], [[projector-augmented-wave formalism| PAW formalism]],  [[phonons]], [[Machine_learning_force_field:_Theory |machine learning force fields]], [[Hybrid functionals: formalism|hybrid functionals]], [[GW approximation of Hedin's equations|GW approximation]], etc.
 
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== Getting started ==
|style="background-color:#EADEEF; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Calculation setup| Calculation setup]] || style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white" | [[Installation]], [[input files]], [[pseudopotentials]], [[:Category:Output Files|output files]], [[:Category:INCAR tag|INCAR tags]], [[:Category:Howto|How to's]], etc.
 
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Over the years we have held several entry level VASP workshops. The lecture notes and examples of these workshops are a very convenient place to start if you are a beginner and might also be usefull if you are not. Below we have listed a few of the most suitable:
|style="background-color:#F6D5DB; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"|[[:Category:Electronic minimization| Electronic minimization]]|| style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[Self-consistency cycle]], [[blocked-Davidson algorithm]], [[RMM-DIIS]], [[direct optimization of the orbitals]], [[preconditioning]], [[density mixing]], etc.
 
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* VASP workshop, Vienna, Austria (2003):
|style="background-color:#F6D5DB; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Electronic ground-state properties| Electronic ground-state properties]]|| style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Band structure|Band structure]], [[:Category:Density of states |density of states]], partial DOS and on-site charge and magnetization ({{TAG|LORBIT}}), [[:Category:Electrostatics |electrostatics]], [[:Category:Charge density|charge density]], [[:Category:Potential|potential]], etc.
:[[VASP_workshop_2003|lecture notes and examples from the handson sessions]]
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|style="background-color:#F6D5DB; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Magnetism| Spin degree of freedom]]|| style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| Spin-orbit coupling, noncollinear magnetism, spin spirals, constrained magnetism, etc.
* VASP workshop at the ''Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel'' (IMN), Nantes, France (2012):
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:[https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BxJlb4Rvc3DAOFZxLUQ0OGlDRW8/edit?usp=sharing/view Lecture notes and guides to the Handson sessions], and [[VASP example calculations|example calculations]].
|style="background-color:#F6D5DB; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Exchange-correlation functionals|Exchange-correlation functionals]]|| style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:GGA|LDA]], [[:Category:GGA|GGA]], [[:Category:meta-GGA|meta-GGA]], [[:Category:DFT+U|DFT+U]], [[:Category:Hybrid functionals|hybrid functionals]], [[:Category:van_der_Waals_functionals|van der Waals functionals]].
 
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|style="background-color:#EDFAF9; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Symmetry| Symmetry and structure]]|| style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| Crystal symmetry, [[:Category:Crystal momentum|reciprocal space]], surfaces, pair-correlation function for liquids, etc.
[[The VASP Manual#toc|Back to the top]]
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|style="background-color:#EDFAF9; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Ionic minimization| Ionic minimization]]||style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[Structure optimization]], ionic-minimization methods, [[:Category:Forces|forces]], [[:Category:Transition States|transition states]], etc.
== Input ==
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|style="background-color:#EDFAF9; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Molecular dynamics| Molecular dynamics]]||style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| Barostats, [[:Category:Thermostats|thermostats]], [[:Category:Ensembles|ensembles]], etc.
As a minimal setup, VASP requires the user to prepare the following input files:
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|style="background-color:#EDFAF9; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Ensemble properties| Ensemble properties]]||style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| Monitoring geometric parameters, pair-correlation function, thermal conductivity, diffusion, etc.
{{FILE|INCAR}}, {{FILE|KPOINTS}}, {{FILE|POSCAR}}, and {{FILE|POTCAR}}.
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|style="background-color:#EDFAF9; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Advanced molecular-dynamics sampling| Advanced molecular-dynamics sampling]] ||style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[Interface pinning]], [[constrained molecular dynamics]], [[metadynamics]], [[thermodynamic integration]], etc.
If present (in the directory were the calculation runs) the following [[The VASP Manual#Output|output files]] of previous runs may be read as restart information:
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|style="background-color:#EDFAF9; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Machine-learned force fields| Machine-learned force fields]]||style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| Training and application of force fields.
{{FILE|CHGCAR}} and/or {{FILE|WAVECAR}}.
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|style="background-color:#D1DCFA; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Phonons| Phonons]]||style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| Lattice vibrations, [[Phonons_from_finite_differences | finite differences]], [[Computing_the_phonon_dispersion_and_DOS | phonon dispersion relation]].
Some specific features of VASP require additional [[The VASP Manual#Output|output files]] from previous runs to be present:
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|style="background-color:#D1DCFA; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Electron-phonon_interactions | Electron-phonon interactions]]||style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[Bandgap_renormalization_due_to_electron-phonon_coupling | Band-structure renormalization]], [[Transport_coefficients_including_electron-phonon_scattering | transport]], [[Electron-phonon_interactions_from_Monte-Carlo_sampling |stochastic sampling]].
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|style="background-color:#D1DCFA; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"|  [[:Category:Linear response| Response theory]]||style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| Static and frequency-dependent [[:Category:Dielectric properties|dielectric properties]], Berry phases, spectroscopy (UV, VIS, X-ray), [[:Category:Phonons|phonons]], etc.
 
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== Output ==
|style="background-color:#D1DCFA; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Many-body perturbation theory| Many-body perturbation theory]]||style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| ACFDT, BSE, GW, MP2, CRPA.
 
The main output file of VASP is the {{FILE|OUTCAR}} file.
 
The {{FILE|OSZICAR}} file ...
 
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| {{FILE|CONTCAR}} || {{FILE|XDATCAR}} || {{FILE|EIGENVAL}} || {{FILE|IBZKPT}}
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|style="background-color:#F6D5DB; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Wannier functions| Localized basis and projection]]||style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| Obtaining [[Wannier functions]], SCDM, partial DOS and on-site charge and magnetization ({{TAG|LORBIT}}), [[Constrained-random-phase approximation]]
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|style="background-color:#EADEEF; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Performance| Performance]]||style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:Parallelization| Parallelization]], [[:Category:Memory|memory management]], profiling, etc.
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|style="background-color:#EADEEF; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"| [[:Category:VASP6|Outlook]]|| style="background: white; padding:5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px; border-color: white"|Features that will only be available in VASP.6.X.
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| {{FILE|vasprun.xml}} || {{FILE|Wxxxx.tmp}} || {{FILE|WFULLxxxx.tmp}} || {{FILE|STOPCAR}}
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== Tutorials and Examples ==
*[[:Category:Tutorials|The list of tutorials]]
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== Visualisation and Postprocessing ==
Here we can link to postprocessing programs and script, visualization tools, etc etc.
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== Further reading and additional documentation ==
Here we should place links to lectures and presentations and articles that concern VASP.
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== Support ==
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If you have questions or run into trouble, please have a look at the [[Known issues|known issues]] and/or post a question on the [https://www.vasp.at/forum/ VASP Forum].
 
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Category subtopics (amongst others)
Theoretical background Pseudopotentials, PAW formalism, phonons, machine learning force fields, hybrid functionals, GW approximation, etc.
Calculation setup Installation, input files, pseudopotentials, output files, INCAR tags, How to's, etc.
Electronic minimization Self-consistency cycle, blocked-Davidson algorithm, RMM-DIIS, direct optimization of the orbitals, preconditioning, density mixing, etc.
Electronic ground-state properties Band structure, density of states, partial DOS and on-site charge and magnetization (LORBIT), electrostatics, charge density, potential, etc.
Spin degree of freedom Spin-orbit coupling, noncollinear magnetism, spin spirals, constrained magnetism, etc.
Exchange-correlation functionals LDA, GGA, meta-GGA, DFT+U, hybrid functionals, van der Waals functionals.
Symmetry and structure Crystal symmetry, reciprocal space, surfaces, pair-correlation function for liquids, etc.
Ionic minimization Structure optimization, ionic-minimization methods, forces, transition states, etc.
Molecular dynamics Barostats, thermostats, ensembles, etc.
Ensemble properties Monitoring geometric parameters, pair-correlation function, thermal conductivity, diffusion, etc.
Advanced molecular-dynamics sampling Interface pinning, constrained molecular dynamics, metadynamics, thermodynamic integration, etc.
Machine-learned force fields Training and application of force fields.
Phonons Lattice vibrations, finite differences, phonon dispersion relation.
Electron-phonon interactions Band-structure renormalization, transport, stochastic sampling.
Response theory Static and frequency-dependent dielectric properties, Berry phases, spectroscopy (UV, VIS, X-ray), phonons, etc.
Many-body perturbation theory ACFDT, BSE, GW, MP2, CRPA.
Localized basis and projection Obtaining Wannier functions, SCDM, partial DOS and on-site charge and magnetization (LORBIT), Constrained-random-phase approximation
Performance Parallelization, memory management, profiling, etc.

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