{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/mbsolve-an-open-source-solver-tool-for-the","title":"Mbsolve: An open-source solver tool for the Maxwell-Bloch equations","arxiv_id":"2005.05412","date":"2020-05-11","proceeding":null,"authors":["Michael Riesch","Christian Jirauschek"],"abstract":"The Maxwell-Bloch equations are a valuable tool to model light-matter interaction, where the application examples range from the description of pulse propagation in two-level media to the elaborate simulation of optoelectronic devices, such as the quantum cascade laser (QCL). In this work, we present mbsolve, an open-source solver tool for the Maxwell-Bloch equations. Here, we consider the one-dimensional Maxwell's equations, which are coupled to the Lindblad equation. The resulting generalized Maxwell-Bloch equations are treated without invoking the rotating wave approximation (RWA). Since this full-wave treatment is computationally intensive, we provide a flexible framework to implement different numerical methods and/or parallelization techniques. On this basis, we offer two solver implementations that use OpenMP for parallelization.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05412v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.05412v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"mbsolve-an-open-source-solver-tool-for-the","repo_url":"https://github.com/mriesch-tum/mbsolve","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"mbsolve-an-open-source-solver-tool-for-the","repo_url":"https://github.com/jpopp-tum/mbsolve","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}