We present our implementation autoCAS for fully automated multi-configurational calculations, which we also make available free of charge on our webpages. The graphical user interface of autoCAS connects a general electronic structure program with a density matrix renormalization group program to carry out our recently introduced automated active space selection protocol for multi-configurational calculations [J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2016, 12, 1760]. Next to this active space selection, autoCAS carries out several steps of multi-configurational calculations so that only a minimal input is required to start them, comparable to that of a standard Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculation, so that black-box multi-configurational calculations become feasible. Furthermore, we introduce a new extension to the selection algorithm that facilitates automated selections for molecules with large valence orbital spaces consisting of several hundred orbitals.
@article{arxiv.1904.00097,
title = {autoCAS: a program for fully automated multi-configurational calculations},
author = {Christopher J. Stein and Markus Reiher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.00097},
year = {2019}
}