History of ASE
Jens Jørgen Mortensen
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
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The atomic simulation environment started as a way to control a plane-wave electronic structure code written in Fortran from Python scripts [1]. We go through the journey from the beginning to the modern ASE that we have today [2].
References:- S. R. Bahn and K. W. Jacobsen, Comput. Sci. Eng. 4, 56 (2002). doi:10.1109/5992.998641
- A. H. Larsen et al., J. Phys. Condens. Matter 29, 273002 (2017). doi:10.1088/1361-648X/aa680e