
.Gaussian
1) The GAUSSIAN03/09 standard links L101 and L502 (l101.exe and l502.exe) have to be replaced by the modified links. This can be done simply by adding the following lines before the section that starts with # in the GAUSSIAN03/09 input file (job_name.com):
%Subst L101 $home/ANT.G-x.x.x/bin
%Subst L502 $home/ANT.G-x.x.x/bin
where $home may be substituted by the appropriate directory containing ANT.G.
2) Set the character string in the title line of the gaussian input file job_name.com or job_name.gjf to whatever you like the output files to be named after. You may use the same name as that of the input file (job_name). This should also be the name of the parameters file (job_name.ant) if you want to modify default calculation parameters (and you probably want to).
3) In order to perform standard transport calculations, part of the two metal electrodes has to be included in the atomic description of the cluster. To this end, a special convention for the coordinates specification section in the job_name.com input file is used so that ANT.G can identify the atoms to which the infinite electrodes (Bethe lattices) are attached.
Now follow these rules:
- 1) 3D electrodes: The first and last set of atoms in the input file should correspond to the outermost regions of the electrodes, i.e., to the ones farthest from the scattering region and should have perfect crystalline order. These should be composed of at least 2 planes each, keeping the outermost planes first and last in the input file. By default all the atoms in the outermost planes are connected to the Bethe lattice (see Figure).
- 2) 2D electrodes: As in the 3D case, the first and last set of atoms should have perfect crystalline order. In this case, it is recommended to specify the number of atoms to be connected to the Bethe lattice in the job_name.ant file since, by default, it considers all the atoms in the electrodes (see below).
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The order and atomic structure of the remaining atoms in the metallic electrodes and the molecule or rest of the system connected to the crystalline regions is not important although a standard metal-molecule-metal structure is recommended for a better analysis of the results.
Note:
If one of the electrodes is missing you need to state this in the job_name.ant file using the electrode type GHOST (see ANT.G input file). The transmission is not evaluated, but the calculation is carried out similarly. If both electrodes are missing the calculation is completely equivalent to that of GAUSSIAN03/09, but using the Green's function formalism. This presents several advantages over the standard calculation.