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Some features:

CosmoLattice incorporates a series of features that makes it very versatile and powerful. We list some of them:

  • It is written in C++, and fully exploits the object oriented programming paradigm, with a modular structure and a clear separation between the physics and the technical details.
  • It is MPI-based and uses a discrete Fourier transform parallelized in multiple spatial dimensions, which makes it specially appropriate for probing scenarios with well-separated scales, running very high resolution simulations, or simply very long ones.
  • It introduces its own symbolic language, defining field variables and operations over them. This way, one can introduce differential equations and operators in a manner as close as possible to the continuum.
  • it includes a library of numerical algorithms, ranging from second-order to tenth-order accuracy methods, suitable for simulating global and gauge theories in an expanding grid.
  • Our evolution algorithms conserve energy up to the accuracy set by the order of the evolution algorithm, reaching even machine precision in the case of the highest order integrators.
  • All our evolution algorithms for gauge theories (for both Abelian and non-Abelian) respect the Gauss constraint to machine precision.
  • Relevant observables are provided for each algorithm, such as field average amplitudes, relevant field spectra, energy density components, or 3D lattice snapshots.
  • It comes with the core library TempLat, which implements fields and algebraic operations and the handling of the parallelization technical details. It works in arbitrary dimensions (smaller or larger than 3), which makes it an ideal tool to develop new modules to solve problems in higher dimensions.
  • New functionalities are constantly added! Check our technical notes and release updates.

Documentation

  • The Art of Simulating the Early Universe arXiv:2006.15122 . A dissertation on lattice techniques for the simulation of scalar-gauge field theories. It provides the theoretical basis for the equations implemented in CosmoLattice.

  • CosmoLattice user manual arXiv:2102.01031 .
    A manual that explains in detail the use and structure of the code, including: 1) how to install CosmoLattice and the different required libraries, 2) the general structure of the code and the most important files, 3) how to set up and run a simulation for the first time, for both scalar and scalar-gauge theories.

Basic installation

Minimal requirements: CMake version 3 or above, g++ version 5 or above, fftw3.

git clone https://github.com/cosmolattice/cosmolattice.git
cd cosmolattice   
mkdir build                     
cd build                        
cmake -DMODEL=lphi4 ../
make cosmolattice

This will compile the lphi4 model. To run it with the default input file, you can do

./lphi4 input=../src/models/parameter-files/lphi4.in

The above commands just represent a very brief guide for the installation and execution of CosmoLattice. For further information, see Appendix A of the user-manual. All options of CosmoLattice, as well as how to activate them and how to install the optional external libraries are explained at length there.

Download

CosmoLattice can be downloaded from the GitHub repository: cosmolattice/cosmolattice