Kwant 0.0.0+unknown documentation

• 1. Preliminaries
  • 1.1. About Kwant
  • 1.2. What’s new in Kwant
  • 1.3. Installation of Kwant
  • 1.4. Authors of Kwant
  • 1.5. Citing Kwant
  • 1.6. Contributing to Kwant and reporting problems
  • 1.7. Kwant license
• 2. Tutorial: learning Kwant through examples
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. First steps: setting up a simple system and computing conductance
  • 2.3. More interesting systems: spin, potential, shape
  • 2.4. Beyond transport: Band structure and closed systems
  • 2.5. Beyond square lattices: graphene
  • 2.6. Superconductors: orbital degrees of freedom, conservation laws and symmetries
  • 2.7. Computing local quantities: densities and currents
  • 2.8. Plotting Kwant systems and data in various styles
  • 2.9. Calculating spectral density with the kernel polynomial method
  • 2.10. Discretizing continuous Hamiltonians
  • 2.11. Adding magnetic field
  • 2.12. Frequently asked questions
• 3. Core modules
  • 3.1. kwant – Top level package
  • 3.2. kwant.builder – High-level construction of systems
  • 3.3. kwant.lattice – Bravais lattices
  • 3.4. kwant.plotter – Plotting of systems
  • 3.5. kwant.solvers – Library of solvers
  • 3.6. kwant.operator – Operators and Observables
  • 3.7. kwant.physics – Physics-related algorithms
• 4. Other modules
  • 4.1. kwant.digest – Random-access random numbers
  • 4.2. kwant.rmt – Random matrix theory Hamiltonians
  • 4.3. kwant.kpm – Kernel Polynomial Method
  • 4.4. kwant.continuum – Tools for continuum systems
  • 4.5. kwant.wraparound – Wrapping around translational symmetries
  • 4.6. kwant.qsymm – Integration with Qsymm
• 5. Modules mainly for internal use
  • 5.1. kwant.system – Low-level interface of systems
  • 5.2. kwant.graph – Low-level, efficient directed graphs
  • 5.3. kwant.linalg – Linear algebra routines

• Index