Kwant: a software package for quantum transport

• Published in: New journal of physics Vol. 16; no. 6; pp. 63065 - 39
• Main Authors: Groth, Christoph W, Wimmer, Michael, Akhmerov, Anton R, Waintal, Xavier
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.06.2014; Institute of Physics: Open Access Journals
• Subjects: 72.15.Eb; 72.20.-i; 73.23.-b; Binding; Computer simulation; Dispersions; Electrodes; Electron spin; Hamiltonian functions; Holes (electron deficiencies); Lattices (mathematics); Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Matrix methods; Modular; numerical simulation; Orbitals; Physics; Quantum transport; Resistance; Software; tight-binding model; Transport; Transport properties; Wave dispersion; Wave functions

Kwant is a Python package for numerical quantum transport calculations. It aims to be a user-friendly, universal, and high-performance toolbox for the simulation of physical systems of any dimensionality and geometry that can be described by a tight-binding model. Kwant has been designed such that t...