Topics included in this category should be related to SIESTA installation and compilation.

Please check whether the answer to your question is given in the SIESTA manual or has been discussed in this forum previously!

A proper choice of pseudopotential and basis set is of fundamental importance while performing calculations.
This category is designed to shed light on this topic.

Before passing to do calculations for production it is important to set up properly the SIESTA parameters. Depending on the simulation you want to perform you may want to adjust different kind of variables and parameters. This category is about which are the parameters interest and how to convergence them.

Questions related to physic questions such as:

Questions of type, How do I calculate xxx ?

TranSIESTA can compute electronic transport properties, such as the zero bias conductance and the I-V characteristic, of a nanoscale system in contact with two electrodes at different electrochemical potentials.

Section to inform about codes and packages working with SIESTA and extending its functionalities and to discuss your experience, problems and results while using SIESTA in conjunction with other codes. The following information should be included:

Users are encouraged to post in this section SIESTA’s related material such as,

Post here and link job offers that may be interesting for the SIESTA community.

Discussion about this site, its organization, how it works, and how we can improve it.

Updates about the status of this forum, including infrastructure management and incidents.