ALPS

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ALPS is a numerical simulation library for strongly correlated systems such as magnetic materials or correlated electrons. It contains typicalsolvers for strongly correlated systems: Monte Carlo methods, exact diagonalization, the density matrix renormalization group, etc. It can be used to calculate heat capacities, susceptibilities, magnetization processes in interacting spin systems, the density of states in strongly correlated electrons, etc. A highly efficient scheduler for parallel computing is another improvement.

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Official site

http://alps.comp-phys.org

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License

ALPS Licence http://alps.comp-phys.org/mediawiki/index.php/Licensing

Availability	General PC cluster, Mac OSX, and Windows Installed on the K computer, at Tokyo University (FX10), Kyushu University (FX10, Primergy), Kyoto University (Cray) Kobe Focus, and at the Institute for Solid State Physics (System B, System C, psi, and phi).
Core Developers	Matthias Troyer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), Synge Todo (Department of Physics/The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo)
Target substance/model	Quantum spin model, Bose-Hubbard model, Fermi-Hubbard model, Kondo lattice model, Anderson model, etc.
Physical quantities that can be computed	Energy, specific heat, magnetization, magnetic susceptibility, and two-point correlation function
Methodology	Classical Mote Carlo method, quantum Monte Carlo method, exact diagonalization, DMRG, TEBD, and DMFT(QMC)
Parallelization	Parallel computing by MPI and OpenMP is supported.
Related keywords	Quantum Monte Carlo method (QMC) Heisenberg model Markov-chain Monte Carlo mothod (MCMC)
Document	B. Bauer et al. (ALPS collaboration) J. Stat. Mech. P05001 (2011). A.F. Albuquerque et al. (ALPS collaboration) J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 310, 1187 (2007).
Other	Versatile yet efficient implementation of various high-quality applications and integrated input/output formats