The maintenance and further development of the QUANTUM ESPRESSO distribution is promoted by the DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center of IOM-CNR under the coordination of Paolo Giannozzi (Univ.Udine, Italy) and Layla Martin-Samos (Univ.Nova Gorica) with the strong support of the CINECA National Supercomputing Center in Bologna under the responsibility of Carlo Cavazzoni.
Main contributors to QUANTUM ESPRESSO, in addition to the authors of the paper mentioned in Sect.1.4, are acknowledged in the documentation of each package. An alphabetic list of further contributors who answered questions on the mailing list, found bugs, helped in porting to new architectures, wrote some code, contributed in some way or another at some stage, follows:
Dario Alfè, Audrius Alkauskas, Alain Allouche, Francesco Antoniella, Uli Aschauer, Francesca Baletto, Gerardo Ballabio, Mauro Boero, Claudia Bungaro, Paolo Cazzato, Gabriele Cipriani, Jiayu Dai, Cesar Da Silva, Alberto Debernardi, Gernot Deinzer, Yves Ferro, Martin Hilgeman, Yosuke Kanai, Axel Kohlmeyer, Konstantin Kudin, Nicolas Lacorne, Stephane Lefranc, Sergey Lisenkov, Kurt Maeder, Andrea Marini, Giuseppe Mattioli, Nicolas Mounet, William Parker, Pasquale Pavone, Mickael Profeta, Guido Roma, Kurt Stokbro, Sylvie Stucki, Paul Tangney, Pascal Thibaudeau, Antonio Tilocca, Jaro Tobik, Malgorzata Wierzbowska, Vittorio Zecca, Silviu Zilberman, Federico Zipoli,and let us apologize to everybody we have forgotten.