2. Tutorial: learning Kwant through examples

• 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.1.1. Quantum transport
  • 2.1.2. The Python programming language
  • 2.1.3. Kwant
• 2.2. First steps: setting up a simple system and computing conductance
  • 2.2.1. Discretization of a Schrödinger Hamiltonian
  • 2.2.2. Transport through a quantum wire
  • 2.2.3. Building the same system with less code
• 2.3. More interesting systems: spin, potential, shape
  • 2.3.1. Matrix structure of on-site and hopping elements
  • 2.3.2. Spatially dependent values through functions
  • 2.3.3. Nontrivial shapes
• 2.4. Beyond transport: Band structure and closed systems
  • 2.4.1. Band structure calculations
  • 2.4.2. Closed systems
• 2.5. Beyond square lattices: graphene
• 2.6. Superconductors: orbital vs. lattice degrees of freedom
  • 2.6.1. “Orbital description”: using matrices
  • 2.6.2. “Lattice description”: using different lattices
• 2.7. Plotting Kwant systems and data in various styles
  • 2.7.1. 2D example: graphene quantum dot
  • 2.7.2. 3D example: zincblende structure