Pairinteraction - A Rydberg Interaction Calculator¶
The pairinteraction software calculates properties of Rydberg systems. The software consists of a C++/Python library and a graphical user interface for pair potential calculations. For usage examples visit the tutorials section of the documentation. Stay tuned by signing up for the newsletter so whenever there are updates to the software or new publications about pairinteraction we can contact you. If you have a question that is related to problems, bugs, or suggests an improvement, consider raising an issue on GitHub.
The pairinteraction library is licensed under the LGPL v3. The extension for calculating radial wave functions using Whittaker functions and the graphical user interface are licensed under the GPL v3. The GPL v3 also applies to the combined work and all provided binary builds.
- Please cite us
Sebastian Weber, Christoph Tresp, Henri Menke, Alban Urvoy, Ofer Firstenberg, Hans Peter Büchler, Sebastian Hofferberth, Tutorial: Calculation of Rydberg interaction potentials, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50, 133001 (2017), arXiv:1612.08053
@article{Weber2017, author = {Weber, Sebastian and Tresp, Christoph and Menke, Henri and Urvoy, Alban and Firstenberg, Ofer and B{\"u}chler, Hans Peter and Hofferberth, Sebastian}, title = {{Tutorial: Calculation of Rydberg interaction potentials}}, journal = {J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.}, volume = {50}, number = {13}, pages = {133001}, year = {2017}, doi = {10.1088/1361-6455/aa743a}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/aa743a} }
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Installation¶
Binary builds are available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows through GitHub Releases. For using pairinteraction as a Python 3 library,
we recommend the installation via pip by calling pip install pairinteraction. If pairinteraction was installed from the command line, the graphical user
interface can be started by executing start_pairinteraction_gui. For more information, read the installation docs.
Main Features¶
The pairinteraction software simulates systems of one or two Rydberg atoms. It supports a lot of neat features, the major of which are listed below:
Stark and Zeeman maps for single atom states
Pair potentials taking into account electromagnetic fields in arbitrary directions
Multipole interaction up to arbitrary order
Numerical and analytical methods for radial matrix elements
Automatic exploitation of symmetries
Calculation of \(C_6\) coefficients in degenerate subspaces
High performance C++ backend, Python interface with NumPy support
MATLAB compatible data export
Credits¶
The pairinteraction software was originally developed at the 5th Institute of Physics and the Institute for Theoretical Physics III of the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Currently it is maintained by developers at the Institute for Theoretical Physics III of the University of Stuttgart in Germany, the Department of Physics of the University of Otago in New Zealand, the Institute of Physics of the University of Rostock in Germany, and the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark.