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arXiv:cond-mat/0410407 · Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

The ALPS Project: Open Source Software for Strongly Correlated Systems

Fabien Alet, P. Dayal, Axel Grzesik, A. Honecker, Mathias Körner, Andreas Martin Läuchli, Salvatore R. Manmana, Ian P. McCulloch, Franz Michel, R. M. Noack, Guido Schmid, Ulrich Schollwöck, Fabian Stoeckli, Synge Todo, Simon Trebst, Matthias Troyer, Philipp Werner, Stefan Weßel

Published Jan 1, 2005• 125 citations
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Abstract

We present the ALPS (Algorithms and Libraries for Physics Simulations) project, an international open source software project to develop libraries and application programs for the simulation of strongly correlated quantum lattice models such as quantum magnets, lattice bosons, and strongly correlated fermion systems. Development is centered on common XML and binary data formats, on libraries to simplify and speed up code development, and on full-featured simulation programs. The programs enable non-experts to start carrying out numerical simulations by providing basic implementations of the important algorithms for quantum lattice models: classical and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) using non-local updates, extended ensemble simulations, exact and full diagonalization (ED), as well as the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG). The software is available from our web server at http://alps.comp-phys.org.

DOI
10.1143/jpsjs.74s.30

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