On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 7, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona wrote: > >> I am studying quantum mechanics for the first time, and I would love to >> have some software dedicated to solving quantum mechanics problems to make >> my life easyer. >> >> AFAIK Cadabra is the only free software dedicated to this: >> >> http://cadabra.phi-sci.com/ >> >> I will take some time to get familiarized with it, and eventually would >> like to make a sage interface to it. > > That would be great! > >> At this point cadabra doesn't have manipulation methods for scalar >> expressions. >> >> http://cadabra.phi-sci.com/ideas.html >> >> They have been considering making an interface to some scalar cas like >> Maxima or SymPy. But I think Sage would be a much better choice for them >> (perhaps they don't know about it). > > I agree, Sage would be a good fit--you should ping them about it. If they > shipped a Python interface, you could use it from Sage or sympy or plain > Python. > >> So I suspect we might find a welcoming attitude if we ask for help to >> develop a cadabra-sage interface. >> >> Is there some other people who work with quantum mechanics that might be >> interested in this? As I said I am only starting with quantum mechanics >> (loving it) so most of the stuff cadabra does remain obscure to me. > > I've always wanted to learn more about quantum mechanics, but I'm in the > middle of writing a thesis so wouldn't be able to help you out.
Sure, if they ship Python, then Sage is a good fit. I plan to port my electronic structure into FEMhub (femhub.org), which is based on Sage, so I think it's a good approach to use Sage (or derivatives) for such things. Ondrej -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
