MaxwellBloch 0.8.1

A Python package for solving the Maxwell-Bloch equations.

MaxwellBloch

MaxwellBloch is a Python package for solving the coupled Maxwell-Bloch equations describing the nonlinear propagation of near-resonant light through thermal quantised systems such as atomic vapours.

Above is an example solution for the propagation of a 4π pulse through a dense atomic vapour. The pulse immediately breaks up on entering the medium and the resultant pulses form two optical solitons each with a pulse area of 2π.

Documentation

Docs for the project are at maxwellbloch.readthedocs.io.

Install

The recommended way to install is via uv:

uv pip install maxwellbloch

Or using pip:

pip install maxwellbloch

If you prefer Conda, you can create and activate an environment with the required dependencies with

conda create --name mb -c conda-forge python=3.11 qutip
conda activate mb
pip install maxwellbloch

More detailed installation instructions can be found in the docs along with many example problems.

Attribution

If you use MaxwellBloch for research, please use the following citation:

@misc{ogden2020maxwellbloch,
  author = {Ogden, Thomas P.},
  title = {{MaxwellBloch}: a Python package for solving the coupled 
    Maxwell-Bloch equations describing the nonlinear propagation of 
    near-resonant light through thermal quantised systems such as atomic 
    vapors.},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/tpogden/maxwellbloch}}
}

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

License

MIT License. See LICENSE.txt.