Hi Tilman, It's great that you're interested in doing this!
I don't know the quantum module very well myself but it probably does need work. As far as I know no one is really working on it right now. A good place to start thinking about improving it would probably be looking over the open issues: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aphysics.quantum Some of those might be easy to fix and that's a good way to get experience contributing. In any case the issues show the problems people have had using the module in the past which helps to think about what is a useful improvement. As for whether this makes a good University project that's a hard question to answer. I'm sure it's possible to make a good project out of this but I have no idea whether it would meet the expectations of your University (you have to talk to them about that). One difficulty in particular with the quantum module is that I'm not sure if there are any active contributors who know it well. That means that it might be difficult to get guidance with it and it might also be hard to get your patches reviewed. On the flip side it means that an active contributor is definitely wanted and there is the opportunity to really take ownership of it. Please let us know what happens after you talk to your University about this. In any case finding a simple bug to fix is probably a good start. -- Oscar On Sun, 19 May 2019 at 02:29, Tilman Roeder <dyed.green.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > My name is Tilman. Me (and a friend of mine) are interested in working on > extending and polishing the quantum physics module in SymPy as part of a > university project. We both study Physics (currently in our 2nd year) at > Imperial College London. The project work would be during the next academic > year (so from September). However, I think it would be valuable to get > started with some simple things to get aquatinted with the code base and > process (as well as allowing plenty time to read up on the relevant subjects). > > From looking through the documentation etc. I get the impression that the QM > module is currently very much a work in progress (especially the quantum > information/ computation bits). From what I can tell, a good thing to get > started on might be adding a few analytic solutions. There is one for the > infinite square well, but none e.g. the harmonic oscillator. Starting with > something very simple like this could be a really good way of getting to know > the process, while focussing on the code etc., before tackling something more > challenging. > > My friend and I are meeting someone in the physics department next week to > discuss if this kind of work would be suitable for our project, and it would > be really helpful to get the opinion of someone more closely involved with > SymPy on this matter. (Note that I am also interested in contributing, should > this turn out to not be suitable as part of my university work.) > > We are currently writing exams, but in about a month I would love to get > started on some simple things to get a head start on the main project work. > > > TL;DR (useful pieces of information): > > - Interested to work on QM module > - Good experience with Python, especially for scientific computing, as well > as some experience using SymPy to do hard integrals. See specifically these > two repos on my GitHub: https://github.com/dyedgreen/schroedinger, > https://github.com/dyedgreen/labs-ray-tracing > - Experience with other languages like C, Golang, Ruby, JavaScript > - Mathematics education level: 2nd year Theoretical Physics Undergraduate > - I speak English and German > > Thanks for taking the time to read this :) > > > Tilman > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/cc0f0b4c-8d0e-478e-a11f-0aac972179bb%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxQXMnUiRe-tr3YjM3rb6okxQ_q%2BcLL6a_F5eojYqh_yHw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
