PARAMOR- Platform And Resource for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Research

原子、分子和光学（AMO）物理学领域有望解开宇宙的一些最深的秘密。它跨越了神秘的量子世界和化学世界之间的鸿沟，化学世界决定了我们的生活经验。虽然存在一些软件工具来探测特定的利基，但只有非常有限和不协调的努力来巩固这些不同的开发链。在这个项目中，我将把我在这一科学领域的专业知识与不断增长的研究人员网络结合起来，为研究人员组装一个可用的、可持续的和有影响力的工具集。该项目的主要成果将是一个可供大量非专业用户使用的计算包（PARAMOR），它可以由社区可持续地发展，并将以前不同的发展方面合并为一项协调一致的努力。该包将在地表下运行最复杂的高性能AMO物理计算机代码，并为用户提供一个干净易用的界面，用于设计和运行模拟，以及处理和渲染其输出。其主要影响将是开创一个充满活力的AMO物理代码的全球用户社区，扭转科学代码停滞不前或变得越来越专业化的“正常”趋势，并为物理研究创造一个真正可持续和有影响力的资源。AMO计算物理的现状是非常有天赋的单独开发人员或小团队构建非常复杂和非常强大的软件，这实际上是外人无法接近的。因此，该项目将起到弥补差距的作用，使这些单独努力的潜在影响得以实现，并将现代软件开发技术的好处带入AMO物理世界。

The field of Atomic, Molecular and Optical (AMO) physics holds the promise of unlocking some of the deepest secrets of the universe. It straddles the gap between the mysterious, quantum world, and the world of chemistry which determines much of our lived experience. While several software tools exist to probe particular niches, there is only a very limited and uncoordinated effort to consolidate these disparate strands of development. In this project I will bring together my expertise in this scientific area with an ever-growing network of researchers therein to assemble a useable, sustainable and impactful toolset for researchers.The main outcome of the project will be a computational package (PARAMOR) which is accessible to a large number of non-expert users, which may be developed sustainably by the community, and which will consolidate previously disparate development strands into a concerted effort. The package will run the most sophisticated high-performance AMO physics computer codes under the surface and provide a clean and easy-to-use interface to the user for designing and running simulations, and for processing and rendering their outputs.The main impact will be to inaugurate a vibrant, global user-community of AMO physics codes that reverses the 'normal' tendency for scientific codes to stagnate, or become increasingly specialised, and create a truly sustainable and impactful resource for physics research generally. The current status-quo in AMO computational physics is for very gifted lone developers or small teams to build immensely complex and very capable software, which is practically inaccessible to outsiders. This project will thus act to bridge the gap and allow the potential impact of these separate efforts to be realised, as well as bringing the benefits of modern software development techniques into the AMO physics world.