“Implementation strategies in phonopy and phono3py” (2023), by Atsushi Togo et al. Physics and Astronomy research paper. Original abstract below, unchanged. A free PDF is available.

Implementation strategies in phonopy and phono3py

Atsushi Togo, Laurent Chaput, Terumasa Tadano et al. · May 23, 2023 · Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

Scientific simulation codes are public property sustained by the community. Modern technology allows anyone to join scientific software projects, from anywhere, remotely via the internet. The phonopy and phono3py codes are widely used open-source phonon calculation codes. This review describes a collection of computational methods and techniques implemented in these codes and shows their implementation strategies as a whole, aiming to be useful for the community. Some of the techniques presented here are not limited to phonon calculations and may therefore be useful in other areas of condensed matter physics.

Free PDF DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/acd831