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κALDo 2.0: Scalable thermal transport from first principles and machine learning potentials

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Giuseppe Barbalinardo
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Zekun Chen
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Dylan A. Folkner
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Bohan Li
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Nicholas W. Lundgren
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Nathaniel Troup
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Alfredo Fiorentino
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Davide Donadio *
DOI:10.1016/j.cpc.2026.110282delete
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We introduce κALDo 2.0, an open-source Python package for computing vibrational, elastic, and thermal transport properties of crystalline and disordered solids from first principles and machine-learned interatomic potentials. Building on the anharmonic lattice dynamics (ALD) framework, κALDo 2.0 provides efficient CPU and GPU-accelerated implementations of the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for crystals and the quasi-harmonic Green-Kubo (QHGK) method. The QHGK formalism extends thermal transport predictions beyond translationally-invariant crystals to materials lacking long-range order, including glasses, alloys, and complex nanostructures. κALDo 2.0 introduces native integration with modern machine-learned potentials (MLPs), enabling thermal transport workflows that combine the accuracy of first-principles methods with the scalability of classical force fields. It also features comprehensive support for temperature-dependent effective potentials (TDEP) workflows, flexible storage backends for large-scale calculations, and advanced quantification of anharmonicity.

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Computer Physics Communications cover
Computer Physics Communications
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