kwant.physics.Bands

class kwant.physics.Bands(sys, args=())

Bases: object

Class of callable objects for the computation of energy bands.

Parameters:

sys : kwant.system.InfiniteSystem

The low level infinite system for which the energies are to be calculated.

args : tuple, defaults to empty

Positional arguments to pass to the hamiltonian method.

Notes

An instance of this class can be called like a function. Given a momentum (currently this must be a scalar as all infinite systems are quasi-1-d), it returns a NumPy array containing the eigenenergies of all modes at this momentum

Examples

>>> bands = kwant.physics.Bands(some_sys)
>>> momenta = numpy.linspace(-numpy.pi, numpy.pi, 101)
>>> energies = [bands(k) for k in momenta]
>>> pyplot.plot(momenta, energies)
>>> pyplot.show()

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