Enhancement proposals

An optmat Enhancement Proposal (OEP) is the design document for one major change. That might be:

• a new medium;

• a new family of properties or models;

• a new kind of curated value;

• a changed default or convention;

• a redesigned interface.

An OEP sets out the motivation, the theory with its references, the primary sources it needs, the implementation options and how the result will be verified. Once accepted, it is implemented in phases, and each phase appends its report to the OEP. Finished OEPs are archived and linked from the manual pages they produced.

OEP 0 describes the process and says when an OEP is needed. New OEPs start from the template. Every OEP is reviewed by at least one human and one frontier AI model before it is accepted.

The roadmap lists, in order:

1. accepted and in-progress OEPs;

2. drafts under discussion;

3. informal work not fully covered by a proposal.

Open

Proposals that are active, in draft, accepted, in progress or deferred.

OEP	Title	Status	Type
0	Purpose and process	Active	Process
7	Strong-field dissociation of small molecules: the products a pulse leaves	Draft	Feature
8	The bound two-photon resonances of the noble gases for propagation	Draft	Feature

Archived

Proposals that are final, rejected, withdrawn or superseded: see the archive.

OEP	Title	Status	Type
1	The propagation-code interface: identity, overrides and the data for solprop’s SEP 3	Final	Feature
2	Compact infrared terms for the molecular gases	Final	Feature
3	The molecular gases between their infrared bands	Final	Feature
4	The refractive index of gas mixtures at finite density	Final	Feature
5	A public record of where the hyperpolarizability fits are supported	Final	Feature
6	Two-photon ionisation and absorption of the noble gases	Final	Feature