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Dear users of Kwant,
We are pleased to announce the publication of the Kwant paper as
New J. Phys. 16, 063065 (2014). In the published version we put
Kwant in a broader context, motivate its design more clearly, and
provide a real-world-research usage
example. http://downloads.kwant-project.org/doc/kwant-paper.pdf
We have also prepared a short video that demonstrates the use of
Kwant directly. We invite you to relay the following link to
anyone who may be interested:
http://kwant-project.org/doc/kwant-screencast-2014
On a final note, Kwant 1.0.1 has been released. This is a
maintenance release that fixes several minor bugs in Kwant
1.0.0. If you are not experiencing any technical problems with
Kwant, you may choose to simply skip this upgrade. A list of all
the changes in 1.0.1 is available at
http://git.kwant-project.org/kwant/log/?h=v1.0.1
On Linux systems where Kwant has been installed in the standard
way (apt-get), the upgrade to 1.0.1 should be performed as a part
of a regular system upgrade. Windows and Mac users who want to
upgrade need to re-install Kwant. See below for Mac upgrade
instructions.
Best wishes on behalf of all Kwant authors,
Christoph Groth
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To upgrade kwant in macports, do
sudo port upgrade py27-kwant
(or py26-kwant, depending on whether you are using python 2.6 or
2.7).
Follow the instructions for additional commands you have to
execute.
To upgrade Mac homebrew, some extra steps are needed because of
some
recent internal changes in homebrew. To upgrade kwant safely, do
brew uninstall scipy numpy matplotlib kwant
brew uninstall mumps_seq metis4 scotch5 gfortran
brew update
brew install gcc
pip install python-dateutil
brew install numpy scipy matplotlib
brew install kwant
For future updates of kwant, a simple "brew upgrade kwant" should
be
sufficient.
