kwant.builder.SiteFamily(canonical_repr, name)¶Bases: object
Abstract base class for site families.
Site families are the ‘type’ of Site objects. Within a family, individual
sites are uniquely identified by tags. Valid tags must be hashable Python
objects, further details are up to the family.
Site families must be immutable and fully defined by their initial arguments. They must inherit from this abstract base class and call its __init__ function providing it with two arguments: a canonical representation and a name. The canonical representation will be returned as the objects representation and must uniquely identify the site family instance. The name is a string used to distinguish otherwise identical site families. It may be empty.
All site families must define the method normalize_tag which brings a tag
to the standard format for this site family.
Site families that are intended for use with plotting should also provide a method pos(tag), which returns a vector with real-space coordinates of the site belonging to this family with a given tag.
Methods
normalize_tag(tag)¶Return a normalized version of the tag.
Raises TypeError or ValueError if the tag is not acceptable.