Matthew Chan, Toon Verstraelen, Alireza Tehrani, Michelle Richer, Xiaotian Derrick Yang, Taewon David Kim, Esteban Vöhringer-Martinez, Farnaz Heidar-Zadeh, Paul W Ayers
HORTON is a free and open-source electronic-structure package written primarily in Python 3 with some underlying C++ components. While HORTON's development has been mainly directed by the research interests of its leading contributing groups, it is designed to be easily modified, extended, and used by other developers of quantum chemistry methods or post-processing techniques. Most importantly, HORTON adheres to modern principles of software development, including modularity, readability, flexibility, comprehensive documentation, automatic testing, version control, and quality-assurance protocols...
April 28, 2024: Journal of Chemical Physics