• Diff for "DebianScience/Physics"

• See also ?EducationPhysics.

• Look also for [http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ debtag] [http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tagindex/field::physics.html field::physics].

• [http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.html Sentinel page]

Physics tools

Particle Physics

• [http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/cernlib/ Cernlib on Debian]

• [http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/paw paw] PAW is an interactive program providing interactive graphical presentation and statistical and mathematical analysis tools. It is designed to work on objects familiar to physicists such as histograms, event files (Ntuples), vectors, etc.

• [http://root.cern.ch/root ROOT] Now in Lenny. (See also [:DebianScience/ROOT:here].)

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/geant321 geant321] Particle detector description and simulation tool.

  • [http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/ Geant version 4] Monte Carlo detector simulation libraries ([http://bugs.debian.org/325305 RFP]) - now has a [http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/license/LICENSE.html real license] but it is [http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/07/msg00016.html probably not DFSG-free]. See also [:DebianScience/Geant4:More about Geant 4]

  • Geant 4 depends upon [http://proj-clhep.web.cern.ch/proj-clhep/ CLHEP], a HEP foundation class library already unofficially packaged by [http://www-zeus.desy.de/~ferrando/ James Ferrando]. The license of parts of CLHEP is non-free; see for instance [http://lcgapp.cern.ch/doxygen/CLHEP/CLHEP_2_0_2_2/doxygen/html/_matrix_8h-source.html Matrix.h].

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/feynmf Feynmf] set of LaTeX macros for creating Feynman diagrams

Fluid Dynamics

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/gerris gerris] Gerris is a system for the solution of the partial differential equations describing fluid flow.

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/gpiv gpiv] [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/gpivtools gpivtools] A collection of programs for images that are generated during a Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) experiment. This is a technique to obtain the velocity field of a fluid flow quantitatively and is performed by tracking tracer particles that have been seeded to a fluid.

See also ["DebianScience/Engineering"]

Condensed Matter

Crystal Structure calculation

• [http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/abinit.html abinit ] A package for electronic structure calculations.

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/openmx ?OpenMx] Package for nano-scale material simulations.

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.

Electromagnetism and Optics

• [http://packages.debian.org/sid/tessa tessa] simulation of 3D optical systems with the FDTD method

• [http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mpb.html mpb] The MIT Photonic-Bands package is a free program for computing the band structures (dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of periodic dielectric structures.

• [http://packages.debian.org/sid/meep meep] Meep (or MEEP) is a free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation software package developed at MIT to model electromagnetic systems.

Structure Visualisation

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/gdis gdis] A GTK based program for the display and manipulation of isolated molecules and periodic systems.

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/v-sim v-sim] V_Sim visualizes atomic structures such as crystals, grain boundaries and so on

See also ["DebianScience/Chemistry"] and [http://www.openscience.org/links.php?section=56 ?OpenScience > Chemistry > Molecule Viewers and Editors]

Scanning probe microscopy

• [http://packages.debian.org/sid/gwyddion gwyddion] Scanning Probe Microscopy visualization and analysis

XAS/ XAFS / EXAFS

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/contrib/science/horae horae] (contrib) interactive graphical processing and analysis of EXAFS data.

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/contrib/science/ifeffit ifeffit] (contrib) An interactive program for XAFS analysis

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/contrib/science/sixpack sixpack] (contrib) full-featured package for XAS analysis

X-ray diffraction

• [http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/objcryst-fox.html objcryst-fox ] A program for the ab initio structure determination from powder diffraction.

X-ray Fluorescence

• pyMCA [http://bugs.debian.org/514903 ITP] Python toolkit and application for X-ray fluorescence analysis

Supporting Packages

Peak Fitting

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/fityk fityk] Fityk is a flexible and portable program for nonlinear fitting of analytical functions (especially peak-shaped) to data (usually experimental data). In other words, for nonlinear peak separation and analysis.

Data Acquisition

See [DebianScience/DataAcquisition] and [http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/numericalcomputation.html]

Numerical Computation (MATLAB/IDL like)

• [http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/numericalcomputation.html] lists Matlab/IDL like packages for calculations on arrays, data analysis and visualisation.

Computer Algebra Systems

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

• [http://packages.debian.org/sid/axiom Axiom] ([http://www.axiom-developer.org/ upstream]) A general purpose computer algebra system

• [http://packages.debian.org/sid/maxima maxima] Maxima is a fully symbolic computation program.

• [http://packages.debian.org/sid/python-sympy ?SymPy] ?SymPy is a Python library for symbolic mathematics (manipulation).

• [http://packages.debian.org/sid/sagemath sagemath] Mathematics software written in Python

• [http://packages.debian.org/sid/yacas yacas] Yacas is a small and highly flexible computer algebra language.The syntax is very close to Mathematica. The distribution contains a small library of mathematical functions, but its real strength is in the language in which you can easily write your own symbolic manipulation algorithms. It supports arbitrary precision arithmetic.

Image Analysis

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

Physics tools that could be considered for inclusion in Debian

• [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=field..physics;users=debian-science@lists.debian.org Packages being worked on].

• [http://www.hepforge.org/projects ?HepForge] Software from ?HepForge. (lhapdf is already in)

• see [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00076.html jmol for display].

• http://www.opennovation.org/ Opennovation.org is an open source engineering portal - an extensive list of free engineering/physics software.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Physics_software lists physics software - some of it commercial.

Tools with unofficial .deb

Structure Determination

• cmpr peak fitting and x-ray diffraction data viewer already packaged by [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00008.html Carlo Segre]

• expgui GUI for GSAS (OK for Debian but GSAS isn't) already packaged by [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00008.html Carlo Segre]

• mcmaille x-ray structure solution already packaged by [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00008.html Carlo Segre]

• tpf x-ray profile refinement already packaged by [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00008.html Carlo Segre]

• xgen macromolecular crystallography already packaged by [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00008.html Carlo Segre]

• Gxsm Gnome X scanning microscopy package, tool for data acquisition of STM/SPM/AFM and visualization, available from http://gxsm.sf.net.

Physics tools that cannot go to main for licensing reasons

• fit2d 2D image analysis already packaged by [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00008.html Carlo Segre]

• jana2000 [http://www-xray.fzu.cz/jana/jana.html upstream] ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00088.html boris])

• gsas x-ray Rietveld analysis already packaged by [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00008.html Carlo Segre]