2. Usage

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This section demonstrates how to use pyALF through small examples that can be directly executed, if everything has been set up as described in Section 1. It first shows on a minimal example how to run an ALF simulation and get some results. Then the different features of pyALF are expanded in more detail.

• 2.1. Minimal example
• 2.2. Compiling and running ALF
• 2.3. Postprocessing
  • 2.3.1. Basic analysis
  • 2.3.2. Custom/Derived Observables
  • 2.3.3. Checking warmup and autocorrelation times
  • 2.3.4. Symmetrization of correlations on the lattice
• 2.4. Command line tools

For a reference on all features, see Section 3.

Tip

The Python builtin help() is very useful for getting information on an object. Try e.g. help(Simulation) after importing Simulation from py_alf.