kwant.solvers.default.
greens_function
(sys, energy=0, args=(), out_leads=None, in_leads=None, check_hermiticity=True, *, params=None)[source]¶Compute the retarded Green’s function of the system between its leads.
An alias exists for this common name: kwant.greens_function
.
kwant.system.FiniteSystem
Low level system, containing the leads and the Hamiltonian of a scattering region.
Excitation energy at which to solve the scattering problem.
Positional arguments to pass to the hamiltonian
method.
Deprecated in favor of ‘params’ (and mutually exclusive with it).
None
Numbers of leads where current or wave function is extracted. None
is interpreted as all leads. Default is None
and means “all
leads”.
None
Numbers of leads in which current or wave function is injected.
None is interpreted as all leads. Default is None
and means
“all leads”.
bool
Check if the Hamiltonian matrices are Hermitian. Enables deduction of missing transmission coefficients.
Dictionary of parameter names and their values. Mutually exclusive with ‘args’.
GreensFunction
See the notes below and GreensFunction
documentation.
Notes
This function can be used to calculate the conductance and other transport properties of a system. It is often slower and less stable than the scattering matrix-based calculation executed by smatrix, and is currently provided mostly for testing purposes and compatibility with RGF code.
It returns an object encapsulating the Green’s function elements between the system sites interfacing the leads in in_leads and those interfacing the leads in out_leads. The returned object also contains a list with self-energies of the leads.
Both in_leads and out_leads must be sorted and may only contain unique entries.