Troubleshooting and FAQ

I updated to a new version and now I get an error/warning.

Take a look at the section “Backwards incomptatible changes” in the Release Notes of the corresponding versions since when you updated.

Where did all the output go?

Take a look at Logging and terminal output.

What are possible parameters for …?

See Parameters and options.

How can I set the number of threads TeNPy is using?

Most algorithms in TeNPy don’t use any parallelization besides what the underlying BLAS provides, so that depends on how you installed TeNPy, numpy and scipy! Using for example an export OMP_NUM_THREADS=4 should limit it to 4 threads under usual setups, but you might also want to export MKL_NUM_THREADS=4 instead, if you are sure that you are using MKL.

Why is TeNPy not respecting MKL_NUM_THREADS?

It might be that it is not using MKL. On linux, check whether you have installed a pip version of numpy or scipy in $HOME/.local/lib/python3.* Those packages do not use MKL - you would need to install numpy and scipy from conda. If you use the conda-forge channel as recommended in the installation, also make sure that you select the BLAS provided by MKL, see the note in Installation with conda from conda-forge.

How can I double check the installed TeNPy version?

You can call tenpy.show_config() to print details about the installed tenpy version. If you have multiple TeNPy/Python versions on your computer, just calling print(tenpy) after an import tenpy will print the path of the used tenpy and can thus help you identify which of the TeNPy installations you use.

I get an error when …

… I try to measure Sx_i Sx_j correlations in a state with Sz conseration.

Right now this is not possible. See the basic facts in Charge conservation with np_conserved.

I get a warning about …

… an unused parameter.

Make sure that you don’t have a typo and that it is in the right parameter set! Also, check the logging output whether the parameter was actually used. For further details, see Parameters and options

… the overlap of infinite MPS not being what I expect naively.

See A warning about infinite MPS.