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Compute electronic energy/gradient(force) in IOData #287

@PaulWAyers

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@PaulWAyers

For machine-learning of potential energy surfaces, we need the electronic energy and gradient, but many electronic structure theory packages return only the total energy (including nuclear-nuclear repulsion) and its gradient with respect to nuclear positions.

We should support reading the nuclear-nuclear repulsion energy where it is possible (e.g. Gaussian log file) and otherwise, add a field to the IOData object with the electronic energy and its gradient

For consistency with other fields in IOData, I'd propose the names
energy_el
atgradient_el

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