Papers

The following papers describe the ALPS library and its releases. When using ALPS in your research, please cite the 2011 paper (Bauer et al.) as the primary reference, and an updated paper is currently (2026) in the works.

The ALPS project release 2.0 (2011)

The ALPS project release 2.0: Open source software for strongly correlated systems

B. Bauer, L. D. Carr, H. G. Evertz, A. Feiguin, J. Freire, S. Fuchs, L. Gamper, J. Gukelberger, E. Gull, S. Guertler, A. Hehn, R. Igarashi, S. V. Isakov, D. Koop, P. N. Ma, P. Mates, H. Matsuo, O. Parcollet, G. Pawlowski, J. D. Picon, L. Pollet, E. Santos, V. W. Scarola, U. Schollwöck, C. Silva, B. Surer, S. Todo, S. Trebst, M. Troyer, M. L. Wall, P. Werner, S. Wessel

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, P05001 (2011)

The ALPS project release 1.3 (2007)

The ALPS project release 1.3: Open source software for strongly correlated systems

A. F. Albuquerque, F. Alet, P. Corboz, P. Dayal, A. Feiguin, S. Fuchs, L. Gamper, E. Gull, S. Guertler, A. Honecker, R. Igarashi, M. Koerner, A. Kozhevnikov, A. Laeuchli, S. R. Manmana, M. Matsumoto, I. P. McCulloch, F. Michel, R. M. Noack, G. Pawlowski, L. Pollet, T. Pruschke, U. Schollwöck, S. Todo, S. Trebst, M. Troyer, P. Werner, S. Wessel

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 310, 1187 (2007)

The ALPS project release 1.0 (2005)

The ALPS project: Open source software for strongly correlated systems

F. Alet, P. Dayal, A. Grzesik, A. Honecker, M. Koerner, A. Laeuchli, S. R. Manmana, I. P. McCulloch, F. Michel, R. M. Noack, G. Schmid, U. Schollwöck, F. Stoeckli, S. Todo, S. Trebst, M. Troyer, P. Werner, S. Wessel

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Supplement, 74, 30 (2005)