Computational Physics - Department of Physics

This part of the text aims at giving an overview over several methods to solve linear al-
gebra and eigenvalue problems. These methods span from standard Gaussian elimination to
iterative eigenvalue solvers for large eigenvalue problems. Furthermore, several technicali-
ties which pertain to handling arrays, their memory allocation and deallocation, classes for
handling arrays and links to professional software packages such as LAPACK and BLAS will
also be discussed. Parallelization of both eigenvalue solvers and linear algebra problems are
also discussed.