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MNDO
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.. py:class:: MNDO

This interface supports energy and gradient evaluations with the
MNDO semi-empirical electronic structure package developed by the 
group of Walter Thiel at MPI Muelheim.

An MNDO :ref:`Theory <theories>` object can be specified as follows::

  my_frag = Fragment(...)

  my_theory = MNDO(frag=my_frag,
                   method='am1',
                   ...)

which would then be called as ``theory=my_theory`` in subsequent tasks (see :ref:`Tasks <tasks>`).

Note that as it is a semi-empirical code, the MNDO interface will ignore
some keyword options that are common to other QM interfaces, such as
``basis``, ``ecp``, ``functional``, etc.


General options
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.. py:attribute:: method

   (default: ``mndo``) Semi-empirical method to use, e.g. ``mndo``, ``am1``, ``pm3``, ``om2``.


SCF options
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.. py:attribute:: accuracy

   (default: ``medium``) SCF accuracy setting. ``high`` sets SCF convergence to 10^-8 eV. ``veryhigh`` sets SCF convergence to 10^-10 eV.