Software Libraries

Illustration that shows the lattice structure of anatase titanium dioxide along with a graphic representation (purple) of a 2-D exciton — an electron-hole pair — generated by the absorption of light

A major effort of the CCQ is the development and support of high quality open-source software for quantum many-body physics research. Making software which is reliable, efficient, and productive accelerates discovery and fosters scientific consensus and reproducibility.

The CCQ is currently home to two major libraries and is nurturing the development of codes in areas including embedding methods, tensor networks, and quantum Monte Carlo.

Projects

Development of the TRIQS software Read More

Development of the ITensor software Read More

Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo Read More

Development of the Octopus project Read More

People

Matthew Fishman, Ph.D.

Research Scientist-Software, CCQ

Matthew Fishman joined the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute in September, 2018.

Johannes Flick, Ph.D.

Affiliate Associate Research Scientist, CCQ

Johannes’ research is focused on light-matter interactions on a microscopic level in particular in the strong-coupling regime.

Miguel Morales, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, CCQ

Miguel A. Morales Silva joined the Center for Computational Quantum Physics in 2021 as a Research Scientist.

Olivier Parcollet, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, CCQ

Olivier Parcollet joined the Flatiron Institute in 2018. His research focuses on the physics of quantum materials where strong electron-electron interactions lead to remarkable physical properties, as seen for example in the high-temperature cuprate superconductors.

Miles Stoudenmire, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, CCQ

Miles Stoudenmire joined the Flatiron Institute in fall 2017. His work involves the development and application of algorithms for studying many interacting quantum particles by means of a compressed description of their collective states, known as a tensor network. He is the lead developer of…

Nils Wentzell, Ph.D.

Research Scientist-Software, CCQ

Nils Wentzell joined the Center for Computational Quantum Physics in 2018 to work on method and code development for strongly correlated electron systems.

Shiwei Zhang, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, CCQ

Shiwei Zhang joined the Center for Computational Quantum Physics as a Senior Research Scientist/Group Leader in 2018. He is also Chancellor Professor of Physics at the College of William & Mary