A new release of the Lumen code is available on GitLab:https://gitlab.com/lumen-code/lumen/-/releases/2.1.0 This release contains different new features as symmetry analysis, Floquet non-linear response etc.This release fixes also a series a bugs in compilations, execution etc,,Release notes are available at: Release notes 2.1
Lumen is now officially citable
The Lumen code is now citable. If you use Lumen in your calculations, please cite our Zenodo reference and the Yambo code that Lumen is derived from. Sangalli, D., Reho, R., Alliati, I. M., Cervantes-Villanueva, J., Esquembre Kučukalić, A., Geirsson, T., Leon Valido, D. A., Mellado Pinto, B., Milev, P., Nalabothula, M., Paleari, F., Romani,…
YamboPy 0.7
YamboPy 0.7 has been released!Yambopy is a python package providing additional postprocessing and data management functionalities for Lumen (Yambo) and Quantum ESPRESSO. In this new version you will find:*) new exciton postprocessing including symmetry analysis, spin-matrix elements*) new tool to analise dipoles*) exciton radiative lifetimes*) exciton-phonon coupling*) new function for nonlinear optics post-processing The code…
Ford documentation is online
Ford documentation for the Lumen file is online at:https://www.lumen-code.org/ford/index.html We are working to document all files and subroutines of the code in tight connection with theory and mathematical formulas.
Lumen code listed among software using ELPA
Starting from the last versions, Lumen officially support ELPA library:https://elpa.mpcdf.mpg.de/ELPA_USED.htmlELPA is a library that to provide highly efficient eigenvalue solvers for Petaflop systems, and Lumen use it in the solution of the Bethe-Salpeter Equation. If you computer cluster has this library installed you can link it to Lumen to speed up your calculations.Performance analysis on…
Lumen 2.0.1 – bug-fixes release
A new release of the Lumen code is available here:https://gitlab.com/lumen-code/lumen/-/releases/2.0.1 This release contains mainly bug-fixes to the previous release without new features. Release notes are available at: Release notes 2.0.1
Symposium: theory and modelling excited states
We are pleased to announce that we are organizing a mini-symposium entitled:‘Theory and Modelling of Excited-State Properties in Solids and Nanostructures’at the Condensed Matter Days (JMC) 2026, which will take place in Toulouse from 26 to 30 October.https://jmc2026.sciencesconf.org Registration will open in the spring and we hope to see many of you there! Invited speakers:Fabienne…
New tutorial on Floquet formalism for non-linear response
A new tutorial is available in the wiki web-page on the Floquet formalism for the calculation of non-linear response functions. Respect to the standard real-time approach Floquet formalism is much faster but at present it is limited to the independent particle approximation with or without scissor operator. In the tutorial we show how to calculate…
Lumen robots are online!
After several months, our Robot Farm is finally online. Here you can see the computers on which we test Lumen and all the new branches and developments. https://www.lumen-code.org/robots/
Lumen 2.0
Lumen 2.0 is available for download here:https://gitlab.com/lumen-code/lumen/-/releases/2.0.0 Lumen 2.0 is a fork of Yambo 5.3. In this version we kept the full compatibility with Yambo 5.3, and used the same name for the executables, but many new features as exciton-phonon coupling, Kerr spectroscopy etc… are present in Lumen 2.0. Moreover Lumen 2.0 include also different…







