Thank you again for the reply
For question 2 isn’t it defined as Ky and Kz so I’m not sure I get your point 
that it is fine
For question 3 if our electrodes like our system are skewed ( direction of 
transport interested are a2 and a3) are we allowed to say a2 a3 ? If not what 
does a3 only mean for a skewed system? In other words how would transport take 
place in a skew system while specifying only one direction especially one would 
be mostly interested to cover
Thank you for your time really appreciate it
El abed

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On 12 Dec 2019, at 8:16 am, Nick Papior 
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Den tir. 10. dec. 2019 kl. 22.04 skrev El-abed Haidar 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Good evening
I was just wondering if we have a unit cell with skew vectors ( c vector for 
example having y and z components) I have the following TRANSIESTA questions:
This is only possible in 4.1 and beyond.
1- Based on siesta mail usually I usually define the k points as 1 1 100
Should I change it for skewed systems? I tried to look for the answer in the 
manual but it does not seem to give in depth on that.
No, a lattice vector is still a lattice vector. So this should be fine.
2- May I know the difference between k points in a siesta run vs a transiesta 
run? I really want to know the in-depth understanding behind both.
They both mean the same thing. However, in a transiesta run k-points along the 
semi-infinite direction has no meaning (the self-energies are semi-infinite by 
definition).
3- Which block in the siesta input file identifies the direction of the bias 
voltage ? Is there much more in depth to that?
In 4.0 it is always the third lattice vector. In 4.1 it is determined from the 
semi-infinite directions of the electrodes. If they are parallel there exists a 
unique transport direction.
Thank you and looking forward to all replies
El abed

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