pyTDGL
Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau in Python
Motivation
pyTDGL solves a 2D generalized time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) equation, enabling simulations of vortex and phase dynamics in thin film superconducting devices.
Learn pyTDGL
The documentation for pyTDGL can be found at py-tdgl.readthedocs.io.
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About pyTDGL
Authors
- Primary author and maintainer: @loganbvh.
Citing pyTDGL
pyTDGL is described in the following paper:
pyTDGL: Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau in Python, Computer Physics Communications 291, 108799 (2023), DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108799.
If you use pyTDGL in your research, please cite the paper linked above.
% BibTeX citation
@article{
Bishop-Van_Horn2023-wr,
title = "{pyTDGL}: Time-dependent {Ginzburg-Landau} in Python",
author = "Bishop-Van Horn, Logan",
journal = "Comput. Phys. Commun.",
volume = 291,
pages = "108799",
month = may,
year = 2023,
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108799",
issn = "0010-4655",
doi = "10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108799"
}
Acknowledgments
Parts of this package have been adapted from SuperDetectorPy, a GitHub repo authored by Mattias Jönsson. Both SuperDetectorPy and py-tdgl are released under the open-source MIT License. If you use either package in an academic publication or similar, please consider citing the following in addition to the pyTDGL paper:
- Mattias Jönsson, Theory for superconducting few-photon detectors (Doctoral dissertation), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2022) (Link)
- Mattias Jönsson, Robert Vedin, Samuel Gyger, James A. Sutton, Stephan Steinhauer, Val Zwiller, Mats Wallin, Jack Lidmar, Current crowding in nanoscale superconductors within the Ginzburg-Landau model, Phys. Rev. Applied 17, 064046 (2022) (Link)
The user interface is adapted from SuperScreen.
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