The main publications of ESPResSo 4.0 and 5.0 are the following:
- R. Weeber, J.-N. Grad, D. Beyer, P. M. Blanco, P. Kreissl, A. Reinauer, I. Tischler, P. Košovan, and C. Holm. “ESPResSo, a versatile open-source software package for simulating soft matter systems”. In M. Yáñez and R. J. Boyd, editors, Comprehensive Computational Chemistry, volume 3, pages 578–601. Elsevier, Oxford, 1st edition, 2024. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-821978-2.00103-3.
- F. Weik, R. Weeber, K. Szuttor, K Breitsprecher, J. de Graaf, M. Kuron, J. Landsgesell, H. Menke, D. Sean and C. Holm. “ESPResSo 4.0 – an extensible software package for simulating soft matter systems”. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 227(14):1789–1816, 2019. doi:10.1140/epjst/e2019-800186-9.
If you use ESPResSo 4.0 (or higher versions) and obtain scientific results that you publish, we would ask you to acknowledge the usage of ESPResSo by referencing the above article! If you use ESPResSo 5.0 (or higher versions), please also also cite the exact release published in the Zenodo dataset.
Further articles on older versions of ESPResSo:
- A. Arnold, O. Lenz, S. Kesselheim, R. Weeber, F. Fahrenberger, D. Roehm, P. Košovan and C. Holm. “ESPResSo 3.1 – Molecular Dynamics Software for Coarse-Grained Models” Meshfree Methods for Partial Differential Equations VI , volume 89 of Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, pages 1–23, Editors: M. Griebel and M. A. Schweitzer, 2013. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-32979-1_1.
- Hans-Jörg Limbach, Axel Arnold, Bernward A. Mann and Christian Holm. “ESPResSo – An Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft Matter Systems”. Comput. Phys. Commun. 174(9):704–727, 2006. doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2005.10.005.
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