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Yambo is a computer software package for studying many-body theory aspects of solids and of molecular systems. It calculates the excited state properties of physical systems from first principles, e.g., from quantum mechanics law without the use of empirical data. It is an open-source software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). However the main development repository is private and only a subset of the features available in the private repository are cloned into the public repository and thus distributed. The name Yambo does not stand for anything in particular; an interpretation thereof as Yet Another Many-Body cOde (or even Yet Another Many-Body Oracle) would be ultimately unofficial and up to the user's willingness or preference.

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Yambo is a computer software package for studying many-body theory aspects of solids and of molecular systems. It calculates the excited state properties of physical systems from first principles, e.g., from quantum mechanics law without the use of empirical data. It is an open-source software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). However the main development repository is private and only a subset of the features available in the private repository are cloned into the public repository and thus distributed. The name Yambo does not stand for anything in particular; an interpretation thereof as Yet Another Many-Body cOde (or even Yet Another Many-Body Oracle) would be ultimately unofficial and up to the user's willingness or preference.

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