[Kwant] A weird result of 1D quantum wire

2017-09-05 Thread Liu Feng
Dear Adel Many thanks for your informative reply. Now I think I have resolved the problem here. The result kwant obtained is correct. One thing is that for odd L, the transmission is always unity, not extinction. This quite counter-intuitive. As even the hopping is

[Kwant] A weird result of 1D quantum wire

2017-09-05 Thread Liu Feng
Dear Joe, Many thanks for your reply. After replacing all the manually given hoppings by lat.neighbors() method, I still obtain the same result. Also, the system is plotted for the length L of even and odd numbers, which gives corrected tight-binding system. So I think as

Re: [Kwant] A weird result of 1D quantum wire

2017-09-05 Thread Abbout Adel
Dear Liu, I think that there is no problem in your result. It is the expected physical result! This behaviour is due to the fact that you are near the middle of the conduction band. To see it better, put the energy exactly =0. you will find that the conductance is zero for odd numbers and

Re: [Kwant] A weird result of 1D quantum wire

2017-09-05 Thread Joseph Weston
Dear Liu, > I have met a strange problem in computing conductance of 1D > quantum wire. > The setup is as follows: > The hopping of the quantum wire is given by the first kind of > Bessel function, for example, J0(A). > The coupling of the lead is set as 1. > As we

[Kwant] A weird result of 1D quantum wire

2017-09-05 Thread Liu Feng
Dear All, I have met a strange problem in computing conductance of 1D quantum wire. The setup is as follows: The hopping of the quantum wire is given by the first kind of Bessel function, for example, J0(A). The coupling of the lead is set as 1. As we know in this

Re: [Kwant] [EXTERNAL] Re: beyond effective mass (limiting kwant to a range of k)

2017-09-05 Thread Maurer, Leon
Hi Rafal and Joseph, Thank you for your replies. “Tight binding” can have multiple meanings in this context, so I could use a little clarification. The dispersion that I showed is already a tight-binding model in the sense that the spin