Acknowledgements

We would like to thank colleagues who generously agreed to read sections of the draft version of the text; their comments helped to improve the text substantially. We are particularly indebted to Ulrike Witte, Jane Brown, Michael Loewenhaupt, Jens Jensen, Andreas Kreyssig, Enrico Faulhaber, Jesus Blanco, Maurits Haverkort, Andrea Severing, Andreas Doenni, Hideoki Kitazawa, Reinhard Kremer, Arata Tanaka, N. Klüver, Herwig Michor, Michael Banks, Nan Tang, Lucian G Pascut, Mathias Doerr, Roland Schedler, Adroja Devashibhai, Danny Milosavljevic, Tobias Weber and Andrew Boothroyd for their help and inspiring comments.

Furthermore, we thank the participants of McPhase Workshops for installing and testing the new McPhase software suite before the official release:

McPhase 6.0
2026: Victor Mecoli, Tobias Weber, Zumair Muhammed, Yash Rajesh Tijare, 2025: Sungkyun Choi, Justus Grumbach
McPhase 5.6
2024: Herwig Michor, Danny Milosavljevic, Juanjuan Liu, Fanjun Xu, Zhentao Wang, Padraig Maderson, Justus Grumbach, Alexander Komarek 2023: Stephan Geprägs, Fei Li, Mocabber Hossain
McPhase 5.5
2023: Justus Grumbach, Christoph Herb, The Anh, Sungkyun Choi, Gideok Kim, Pikesh Pal, Nan Tang, 2022: Yiqing Gu, José Abraham Hernández, Lazar Kish, Chennan Wang, Abhisek Bandyopadhyay
McPhase 5.4
2022: Mahmoud Deeb, Shovan Dan, Rajesh Tripathi, Chennan Wang, Alexander Komarek, Devashibhai T Adroja, Jose Abraham Hernandez, Jorge Lago, Lorenzo Celiberti, Dario Fiore Mosca, Michal Stekiel, 2021: Christian Wessler, Mahmoud Deeb, Chennan Wang
McPhase 5.3
2016: Jiang Xiaoming
McPhase 5.2
2015: Ernst Bauer, Herwig Michor, Karl Sandeman, Alexander Komarek, Karina Bulgakova, Soner Özcan 2014: G. E. Granroth, S. Campbell,
McPhase 5.0
2012: Martin Boehm, Mark H. Johnson, Jesus A. Blanco, Hideoki Kitazawa
McPhase 4.6
2011: Devishibhai Adroja, Pablo Alvarez Alonso, Joan Amaral, Ernst Bauer, Joao Filipe Horta Belo da Silva, Jesus A Blanco, Andrew Boothroyd, Cristina Echevarvia Bonet, Belen Fernandez Alfonso, Lucas Fernandez Selvane, Albert Furrer, Abel Garzia Saiz, Christoph Geibel, Pedro Gorria Korres, Thomas Gruner, Ariane Haase, Jens Jensen, Mark Johnson, Romi Kaur, Cornelius Krellner, Bella Lake, Duc Manh Le, Haifeng Li, Stephen Lovesey, Michael Loewenhaupt, Karl Anton Lorenzer, Javier Luzon Marco, Luigi Paolasini, Toby Perring, Carmen Pique Rami, Natalia Rinaldi Montes, Angel Rodriguez Fernandez, Lucia Steinke, Subakti Subakti, Peter Thamlmeier, Linda Udby, Helen Walker, Yinguo Xiao, Geresi Zsolt

The authors thank the FWF, Royal Society and the EPSRC. We thank the authors of Cfield, Powls, FullProf, Spectre, Amos and XTLS, output of these programs has been used to test McPhase.

Without the enthusiastic support of the neutron scattering community this program would not have come into existence.