Computational Electronic Structure of Condensed Matter

CCP9 is the Collaborative Computational Project for the Study of the Electronic Structure of Condensed Matter.

CCP9 provides a network which connects UK research groups in electronic structure, facilitates UK participation in the larger European Psi-k Network and supports a number of cutting edge computational codes. The chairman of CCP9 is Prof. Stewart Clark, University of Durham.

CCP9/CECAM Graduate School 2025

CCP9, together with CECAM, will run a Graduate School in Electronic Structure Methods 24-28 February 2025 at Daresbury Laboratory.  The course will cover basic theory and practical application of the CASTEP, CRYSTAL and QUESTAAL codes for materials science and chemistry.  Registration deadline 19 January 2025.  For more information and to register, see https://ccp9.ac.uk/graduate_school_2025/

Latest news

CCP9 Bridging Funding Call

Dear CCP9 I’m pleased to tell you that we were successful in our recent application to UKRI's CCP Bridging Fund Call, and therefore ... Read more

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Please note that the April 2024 Psi-k Scientific Highlight article entitled Electronic structure calculations for muon spectroscopy  ... Read more

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The April Psi-k highlight entitled "GPAW: An open Python package for electronic-structure calculations" by Jens Jørgen Mortensen et ... Read more

Forthcoming events

Christmas

Event date - December 25, 2024

Event time - 12:00 am

Merry Christmas everyone! Read more

Fulfilling the Multiscale Promise in Materials: Getting Information out of the Atomistic Scale

Event date - March 31, 2025

Event time - 12:00 am

March 31, 2025 - April 3, 2025 CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Organisers: Erik Bitzek (Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung) James Kermode (University of Warwick) Gianpietro Moras (Fraunhofer IWM) Lars Pastewka (University of ... Read more

Psi-k Conference 2025

Event date - August 25, 2025

Event time - 12:00 am

This major conference – the largest worldwide in electronic-structure – brings together the community that is active in the field, as described by the Psi-k mission statement: "... to develop fundamental theory, algorithms, and computer codes ... Read more

Recent CCP9 Flagships

“Quasiparticle Self Consistent GW (QSGW) for next generation electronic structure”, PI Mark van Schilfgaarde (King’s College London)

“Excitations in Complex Environments: Multiphysics embedding for large scale electronic structure”, PI Nick Hine (University of Warwick)

Recent Papers from the CCP9 community

J. Barker, D. Pashov, and J. Jackson , Electronic structure and finite temperature magnetism of yttrium iron garnet.

Electronic Structure, 2, 044002 (2020)

Edward B. Linscott, Daniel J. Cole, Nicholas D. M. Hine, Michael C. Payne, and Cedric Weber, ONETEP + TOSCAM: uniting dynamical mean field theory and linear-scaling density functional theory.

Chem. Theory Comput. 2020  /  arXiv:1911.07752

F. Giustino, Electron-phonon interactions from first principles.

Rev. Mod. Phys. 89, 015003 (2017)

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