Nanoscale physics tools

Condensed Matter

Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations

See also DebianScience/Chemistry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_quantum_chemistry_and_solid_state_physics_software has a list of software - both free and commercial.

Structure Visualisation

See also DebianScience/Chemistry and OpenScience > Chemistry > Molecule Viewers and Editors

Scanning probe microscopy

XAS/ XAFS / EXAFS

X-ray diffraction

X-ray Fluorescence

Supporting Packages

Peak Fitting

Numerical Computation (MATLAB/IDL like)

Computer Algebra Systems

See DebianScience/ComputerAlgebraSystems for a comparison of some of these.

Image Analysis

See http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/imageanalysis.html for applications to extract quantitative data from images.

Tools with unofficial .deb

Structure Determination