Authors & Acknowledgements
==========================

-  Lead developer since 2020: `Gerald E.
   Fux <https://github.com/gefux>`__ (gerald.e.fux@gmail.com)
-  Co-lead developer since 2022: `Piper
   Fowler-Wright <https://github.com/piperfw>`__ (piperfw@gmail.com)

Major code contributions
------------------------

**Experimental features**

- `Sampreet Kalita <https://github.com/Sampreet>`__: JAX numerical backend for
  GPU/TPU support

**Version 0.5.0**

- `Aidan Strathearn <https://github.com/aidanstrathearn>`__: Gibbs state TEMPO [Chiu2022]. 
- `Eoin P. Butler <https://github.com/ebutler414>`__, `Eoin O’Neill <https://github.com/eoin-dp-oneill>`__, and `Paul R. Eastham <https://github.com/paulreastham>`__: Process tensor gradients and optimization [Fux2021, Butler2024] 
- `Ewen D.C. Lawrence <https://github.com/ewenlawrence>`__ and `Peter Kirton <https://github.com/peterkirton/>`__: Degeneracy trick in TEMPO and PT-TEMPO. 
- `Roosmarijn de Wit <https://github.com/rmadw>`__: Multi-time system correlations. 
- `Piper Fowler-Wright <https://github.com/piperfw>`__: TEMPO parameter tutorial and automatic estimation.

**Version 0.4.0** 

- `Joel Beckles <https://github.com/JoelANB>`__ and `Piper Fowler-Wright <https://github.com/piperfw>`__: Extension of mean-field evolution to multiple types of system.

**Version 0.3.0** 

- `Piper Fowler-Wright <https://github.com/piperfw>`__: Open quantum systems with mean-field evolution [FowlerWright2022].

**Version 0.2.0** 

- `Gerald E. Fux <https://github.com/gefux>`__: Chains of open quantum systems [Fux2023]. - Dainius Kilda: Precursor code for chains of open quantum systems [Fux2023]. 
- `Dominic Gribben <https://github.com/djgribben>`__: Bath dynamics extension [Gribben2022b]. 
- `Dominic Gribben <https://github.com/djgribben>`__: Multiple environments extension [Gribben2022a].

**Version 0.1.2 (TimeEvolvingMPO)**

- `Gerald E. Fux <https://github.com/gefux>`__: Improved memory cut-off [Strathearn2017].

**Version 0.1.0 (TimeEvolvingMPO)**

- `Gerald E. Fux <https://github.com/gefux>`__: Implement process tensor TEMPO (API and backend) [Fux2021].
- `Gerald E. Fux <https://github.com/gefux>`__: Implement core TEMPO functionality (API and backend) [Strathearn2018].
- `Gerald E. Fux <https://github.com/gefux>`__: Setup Project (CI, API design, project planning, etc.).

Acknowledgements
----------------

**Scientific advisors:** 

- Jonathan Keeling (*University of St Andrews*)
- Brendon W. Lovett (*University of St Andrews*)

**Other Collaborators:** 

- Kristín Arnardóttir (*University of Southern Denmark*) 
- `Erik Gauger <https://github.com/erikgauger>`__ (*Heriot-Watt University*)
- `Thibaut Lacroix <https://github.com/tfmlaX>`__ (*University of Ulm*)