So it's no longer necessary to provide the REFNAME environment variable.
Also the link template string format is now more general to support at
least gitlab github and cgit.

The former creates a numpy.matrixlib.matrix object, while the latter a regular
numpy array.

Closes #218

'box-forced' is deprecated as of matplotlib 2.2.

Gitlab now has built-in mirroring, so we don't need to have a CI
step for this now.

Closes #207.

pyplot "attaches" a figure to a backend on calling pyplot.figure. Previously we
implemented a hack that worked around this limitation in case the user did not
import pyplot. However this hack is fragile and breaks new things with newer
matplotlib versions. Now we detect whether the figure is intended for pyplot
and import pyplot directly if it is.

This change also allows us to simplify the interface and the implementation of
output_fig, but this is permitted because it is an internal function.

clarify usage of pseudoinverse, and factor out
rank checks for primitive lattice vectors

Closes #209.

See merge request kwant/kwant!231

Rafal Skolasinski authored 6 years ago and Joseph Weston committed 6 years ago

Currently code that do constraints check on "prim_vecs" during lattice
creation is doubled. In addition to factoring it out into separate
function this commit also adds check if "prim_vecs" are linearly independent.

This was always what was meant semantically; newer versions
of Scipy are stricter about what they accept for row/column
indices for COO matrices.

Closes #211.

In the future numpy will not allow multidimensional slices that
are specified as sequences other than tuples.

Closes #210.

Fix compatibility issues with Sympy 1.2.

Closes #203.

See merge request kwant/kwant!228

Rafal Skolasinski authored 6 years ago and Joseph Weston committed 6 years ago

SymPy 1.2 brought changes to LambdaPrinter that broke kwant.continuum
for inputs containing functions like "sin", "cos", or constant "pi".
By this fix we assert that "kwant.continuum.sympify" represents in
its output all functions as AppliedUndef in favour to built-in SymPy
functions. We also put a hard constaint that all functions and constants
in the input expression (with except to pi) must be provided through params.

Backport of commit 499f3d91 to stable branch.
Closes #208.

Pablo Piskunow authored 7 years ago and Joseph Weston committed 6 years ago

  When passing `energy_resolution`, the number of moments is set using
  the yet undefined parameter `self._a`. Now the number of moments is
  set after defining `self._a`.

If 'mplot3d' is not available then plotting 2D systems fails because
'plot' calls 'set_colors', which references 'mplot3d'.

The check is meant to make sure we don't use a hopping length that
is smaller than a certain threshold (10E-5 previously). Here we
correct the check and increase the threshold so as not to have
too fine-grained gridding.

Thanks to Jörg Behrmann for reporting this problem!

Add RELEASE.rst that documents the process of making
a Kwant release.

See merge request kwant/kwant!184

Also include grammatical/stylistic changes, and a re-ordering
of some sections.

Closes #188.

Rafal Skolasinski authored 7 years ago and Joseph Weston committed 7 years ago

Running "kwant.continuum.discretize('k_x**2 + 1')" was resulting
in an "AssertionError". This happend because "1 * expr = expr"
in SymPy and therefore a wrong argument has been passed to
"_read_offset" function.

While we *may* choose only to specify that finalize() returns
a system.Finitesystem (or system.InfiniteSystem), this is probably
a bad idea, as the docstring of finalize() is the only place that
people can find out about builder.FiniteSystem (which contains
the documentation for the 'sites' attribute, for example).

Matplotlib backends like PDF cannot display arbitrarily thin lines.
That's why kwant.plotter.streamplot simulates thinner lines by blending
them into the background.

Previously if no lines were blended, i.e. all had the same color value
1, the background color would be used for drawing them instead of the
line color.

Bas Nijholt authored 7 years ago and Anton Akhmerov committed 7 years ago

Closes #182