TY - JOUR
T1 - The ALPS project release 2.0
T2 - Open source software for strongly correlated systems
AU - Bauer, B.
AU - Carr, L. D.
AU - Evertz, H. G.
AU - Feiguin, A.
AU - Freire, J.
AU - Fuchs, S.
AU - Gamper, L.
AU - Gukelberger, J.
AU - Gull, E.
AU - Guertler, S.
AU - Hehn, A.
AU - Igarashi, R.
AU - Isakov, S. V.
AU - Koop, D.
AU - Ma, P. N.
AU - Mates, P.
AU - Matsuo, H.
AU - Parcollet, O.
AU - Pawłowski, G.
AU - Picon, J. D.
AU - Pollet, L.
AU - Santos, E.
AU - Scarola, V. W.
AU - Schollwöck, U.
AU - Silva, C.
AU - Surer, B.
AU - Todo, S.
AU - Trebst, S.
AU - Troyer, M.
AU - Wall, M. L.
AU - Werner, P.
AU - Wessel, S.
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - We present release 2.0 of the ALPS (Algorithms and Libraries for Physics Simulations) project, an 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. The code development is centered on common XML and HDF5 data formats, libraries to simplify and speed up code development, common evaluation and plotting tools, and simulation programs. The programs enable non-experts to start carrying out serial or parallel 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), the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) both in a static version and a dynamic time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) code, and quantum Monte Carlo solvers for dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). The ALPS libraries provide a powerful framework for programmers to develop their own applications, which, for instance, greatly simplify the steps of porting a serial code onto a parallel, distributed memory machine. Major changes in release 2.0 include the use of HDF5 for binary data, evaluation tools in Python, support for the Windows operating system, the use of CMake as build system and binary installation packages for Mac OS X and Windows, and integration with the VisTrails workflow provenance tool.
AB - We present release 2.0 of the ALPS (Algorithms and Libraries for Physics Simulations) project, an 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. The code development is centered on common XML and HDF5 data formats, libraries to simplify and speed up code development, common evaluation and plotting tools, and simulation programs. The programs enable non-experts to start carrying out serial or parallel 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), the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) both in a static version and a dynamic time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) code, and quantum Monte Carlo solvers for dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). The ALPS libraries provide a powerful framework for programmers to develop their own applications, which, for instance, greatly simplify the steps of porting a serial code onto a parallel, distributed memory machine. Major changes in release 2.0 include the use of HDF5 for binary data, evaluation tools in Python, support for the Windows operating system, the use of CMake as build system and binary installation packages for Mac OS X and Windows, and integration with the VisTrails workflow provenance tool.
KW - classical Monte Carlo simulations
KW - density matrix renormalization group calculations
KW - quantum Monte Carlo simulations
KW - quantum phase transitions (theory)
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-5468/2011/05/P05001
DO - 10.1088/1742-5468/2011/05/P05001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79958058128
SN - 1742-5468
VL - 2011
JO - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
JF - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
IS - 5
M1 - P05001
ER -