About
What is ALM?
ALM is an open source software designed for estimating harmonic and anharmonic force constants based on the supercell method.
Features
Extraction of harmonic and anharmonic force constants based on the supercell approach
Applicable to any crystal structures and low-dimensional systems
Accurate treatment of translational and rotational invariance
Interface to VASP, Quantum-ESPRESSO, xTAPP, and LAMMPS codes
API for python and C++
Links
Documentation : http://alm.readthedocs.io (this page)
Git repository : http://github.com/ttadano/ALM
License
Copyright © 2014–2018 Terumasa Tadano
This software is distributed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE.txt file for license rights and limitations.
How to Cite ALM
Please cite the following article when you use ALM in :
T. Tadano, XXX, XXX XX, XXXX (XXXX)
Acknowledgement
This project is/was partially supported by the following projects:
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (16K17724)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas ‘Materials Design through Computics: Complex Correlation and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics’. (http://computics-material.jp)