diff --git a/content/citing.txt b/content/citing.txt index 323d61589ff82c57d3856e1a945b62ee08764957..d3c49bca8420f2071e97c6f1a8daa2167008a2dd 100644 --- a/content/citing.txt +++ b/content/citing.txt @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ Citing kwant ============ -If kwant contributes to a project that leads to a scientific publication, please -acknowledge this fact by citing the project. The kwant paper has not been -published yet, but will be anounced at this place once published - please check. +While kwant is not publiclly released yet, we hope that once it is, it will be +used for research. If kwant contributes to a project that leads to a scientific +publication, please acknowledge this fact by citing the project. The kwant +paper has not been published yet, but will be anounced at this place once +published: please check. diff --git a/content/community.txt b/content/community.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 2e1b150e90f4b3155dc3e33d7cdb7162e9d56cde..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/content/community.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -Community -========= diff --git a/content/index.txt b/content/index.txt index e4ec2545f536bfb967348ba928d9dd691f5e4809..cf9bd8900ae87315839b89f916d8cf336bb26251 100644 --- a/content/index.txt +++ b/content/index.txt @@ -1,13 +1,25 @@ --- __template__: home.mako --- -kwant, a package for tight binding models -========================================= -**kwant** is a Python package for numerical calculations on tigh-binding models +.. image:: kwant-logo.png + +Numerics of tight binding models made easy +========================================== + +kwant is a Python package for numerical calculations on tigh-binding models with most focus on quantum transport. It is designed to be flexible, easy to use, while not sacrificing performance. Its flexbility is illustrated below by showcasing some of its applications. How easy it is to use is shown in the tutorial, and finally its performance was carefully tested. + +.. image:: collage.png + +Various applications of kwant: +* conductance of a Corbino disk in a quantum Hall regime +* A piece of bilayer graphene lattice +* Density of states in a chaotic stadium billiard +* A quantum wire with a proximity superconductor, and the Majorana states + in its spectrum. diff --git a/rendered_wire.png b/rendered_wire.png deleted file mode 100644 index 035778ca97236b5a82a51cdbda063c97e331c00e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Binary files a/rendered_wire.png and /dev/null differ