File formatsΒΆ

sisl implements a generic interface for interacting with many different file formats. When using the command line utilities all these files are accepted as input for, especially sdata while only those which contains geometries (Geometry) may be used with sgeom.

In sisl any file is named a Sile to destinguish it from File.

Here is a list of the currently supported file-formats with the file-endings defining the file format:

xyz
XYZSile file format, generic file format for many geometry viewers.
cube
CUBESile file format, real-space grid file format (also contains geometry)
xsf
XSFSile file format, `XCrySDen`_ file format
ham
HamiltonianSile file format, native file format for sisl
dat
TableSile for tabular data

Below there is a list of file formats especially targetting a variety of DFT codes.