README

LIMAPACK - calculating molecular axis alignment in laser fields
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LIMAPACK is a software package for calculating the molecular axis
alignment resulting from exposing molecules to intense non-resonant
laser fields. LIMAPACK is an evolution of code written over several
years by Jonathan Underwood. The present focus is on making the code
available in a modular form such that it becomes a platform for
collaborative development by interested parties. As such this involves
a large cleanup and re-factoring effort. Once this phase is complete,
new features will be added.

Current features include:

o Can optionally use MPI for running on large clusters
o Uses pthreads for multi-threading on a single machine with multiple 
  CPU cores
o Able to treat linear, symmetric top, and asymmetric top molecules
o Able to treat arbitrary laser fields

Installation
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Installation instructions can be found in the INSTALL file included
with the software.

Licensing
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The software is made available under the terms of the GNU GENERAL
PUBLIC LICENSE version 3. Please see the COPYING file for further
information.

Mailing list
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Discussions about the use and development of LIMAPACK happen on the
LIMAPACK mailing list, hosted on Google Groups:

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/limapack

To start a discussion on the mailing list send mail to:

limapack@googlegroups.com

Development
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The project welcomes all contributions of code and documentation. 

The development of LIMAPACK is coordinated through github. The project
repository can be found here:

https://github.com/jonathanunderwood/limapack/