Hi again, ......In my previous message, I was referring to the case of 1d. the unit is (1/a). In 2 and 3 dimensions it will be (1/V), where V is the unit volume. Adel
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 9:40 AM Marc Vila <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Kwant developers, > > > I've found in other threads in the mailing list that the units of current > is for example (unit of charge)/(hbar/unit of energy) ( > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01100.html). > Also, the local density of states has units of energy/volume ( > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00169.html > ). > > > My question is, what is the units of the output of the density operator? > Is it energy/volume as well? I ask this because intuitively I view it as > the square of the wavefunction, but it gives me values larger than 1 for > each site when there is only 1 mode involved (see attached picture) so it > is not just the probability of findinge the electron at that site because > this should be maximum 1. I have also noticed that the values I get in the > colorbar depend on the value of my hopping (e.g. case of graphene), but > overall I'm not so sure of the units. > > > Thank you again for your help. > > > Kind regards, > > > Marc > -- Abbout Adel
