Hi Joseph,

No problem! Thanks for your attention anyway.

Antônio.


De: "Joseph Weston" <joseph.weston08@gmail.com>
Para: antoniolrm@usp.br
Cc: "Anton Akhmerov" <anton.akhmerov@gmail.com>, kwant-discuss@kwant-project.org, "Bas Nijholt" <basnijholt@gmail.com>, "Camilla Espedal" <camilla.espedal@ntnu.no>
Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 3 de Novembro de 2016 13:06:02
Assunto: Re: [Kwant] Hopping between different lattices and families

Hi,

> Looking at the code you initially posted, it seems that you do not have
> any spin degree of freedom in your system. This is a necessary condition
> for Majoranas. Look again more closely at the Hamiltonians from the literature (e.g.
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1145). You will see that there are two
> kinds of Pauli matrices (usually denoted with sigma and tau
> respectively), one which acts on the spin space, and one which acts on
> the particle-hole space.

Disregard all this, I looked a bit closer and saw you were using
Kitaev's model directly

Sorry for the noise!

Joe