Dear Anant, As the error message says, kwant.plotter.map only supports 2D systems. You can use plot for 3D systems instead. I invite you to check out the tutorial http://kwant-project.org/doc/1.0/tutorial/tutorial6 Best, Anton On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:35 AM, ANANT <avterminator@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello ! I am trying to plot the surface LDOS of a 3d cubic lattice .But I am having an error .Please have a look at the code this code is for topological insulator on a cubic lattice.It generates the correct band structure but not LDOS and conductance:I am not mentioning the libraries to keep it small.I have tried using the 3rd dimension zero it still not working

lat = kwant.lattice.general([(1,0,0),(0,1,0),(0,0,1)]) # All pauli matrices to define pseuospin and spin degree of freedom. s_0=np.identity(2) s_z =np.array([[1, 0], [0, -1]]) s_x = np.array([[0, 1], [1, 0]]) s_y = np.array([[0, -1j], [1j, 0]]) # 4x4 matrices g1= tinyarray.array(np.kron(s_x,s_x)) g2= tinyarray.array(np.kron(s_y,s_x)) g3 = tinyarray.array(np.kron(s_z,s_x)) g4= tinyarray.array(np.kron(s_0,s_y)) g5 = tinyarray.array(np.kron(s_0,s_z))

def make(a = 14 ,b = 5, c= 0,t=1,delta =.4,m =2): sym = kwant.TranslationalSymmetry((1,0,0)) sys = kwant.Builder() def cube(pos): x,y,z = pos return 0<=x<=a and 0<=y<=b and 0<=z<=c #Onsite energy sys[lat.shape(cube,(0,0,0))] = m*tau_0z #hopping in x direction sys[kwant.builder.HoppingKind((1, 0,0), lat,lat)] = -t*tau_0z - 1j*delta*tau_zx #hopping in y direction sys[kwant.builder.HoppingKind((0,1,0), lat,lat)] = -t*tau_0z + 1j*delta*tau_0y #hopping in z direction sys[kwant.builder.HoppingKind((0,0,1), lat,lat)] = -t*tau_0z - 1j*delta*tau_xx #leads lead = kwant.Builder(sym) def cube1(pos): x,y,z = pos return 0<=y<=b and 0<=z<=c #Onsite energy lead[lat.shape(cube,(0,0,0))] = m*tau_0z #hopping in x direction lead[kwant.builder.HoppingKind((1, 0,0), lat,lat)] = -t*tau_0z - 1j*delta*tau_zx #hopping in y direction lead[kwant.builder.HoppingKind((0,1,0), lat,lat)] = -t*tau_0z + 1j*delta*tau_0y #hopping in z direction sys[kwant.builder.HoppingKind((0,0,1), lat,lat)] = -t*tau_0z - 1j*delta*tau_xx sys.attach_lead(lead) sys.attach_lead(lead.reversed()) return sys.finalized() return sys energy =.5 def density(sys, energy, args, lead_nr): wf = kwant.wave_function(sys, energy, args) return(abs(wf(lead_nr))**2).sum(axis=0) def lds(sys, energy, args, lead_nr): dos = kwant.ldos(sys, energy, args) return dos #main funcation call def main(): sys = make() kwant.plot(sys, site_size=0.19, site_lw=0.01, hop_lw=0.03,site_color = 'c') d = density(sys, energy, [.0, "" ], 0) kwant.plotter.map(sys,d) s = lds(sys,energy,[.0, "" ], 0) kwant.plotter.map(sys,s) if __name__ == '__main__': main()

the error is : ValueError: Only 2D systems can be plotted this way.