Hi Naveen, kwant.continuum.discretize can only deal with k_{xyz} as polynomials.
Best, Bas On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 8:00 AM Naveen Yadav naveengunwa...@gmail.com <http://mailto:naveengunwa...@gmail.com> wrote: Dear all, > > I am tring to discretize the Hamiltonian containing the functional terms > (like sin(k_x) ), but I am getting an TypeError : 'Symbol' object is not > callable. > The code is > from __future__ import division > import kwant > import kwant.continuum > import scipy.sparse.linalg > import scipy.linalg > import numpy as np > import sympy > from math import sin, cos, sqrt, pi > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > hamiltonian = ("""sigma_x * sin(k_x) + sigma_y * sin(k_y) + > sigma_0*(k_z)""") > hamiltonian = kwant.continuum.sympify(hamiltonian) > template, coords = kwant.continuum.discretize_symbolic(hamiltonian) > t = kwant.continuum.build_discretized(template, coords) > print(t) > > TypeError Traceback (most recent call > last)<ipython-input-5-2b66bb479997> in <module> 9 import > matplotlib.pyplot as plt 10 hamiltonian = ("""sigma_x * sin(k_x) + > sigma_y * sin(k_y) + sigma_0*(k_z)""")---> 11 hamiltonian = > kwant.continuum.sympify(hamiltonian) 12 template, coords = > kwant.continuum.discretize_symbolic(hamiltonian) 13 t = > kwant.continuum.build_discretized(template, coords) > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/kwant/continuum/_common.py in > sympify(expr, locals) 197 # sympy types. 198 subs = {r: > sympy.Symbol(str(r.func))(*r.args)--> 199 for r in > hamiltonian.atoms(sympy.Function)} 200 201 hamiltonian = > hamiltonian.subs(subs) > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/kwant/continuum/_common.py in > <dictcomp>(.0) 197 # sympy types. 198 subs = {r: > sympy.Symbol(str(r.func))(*r.args)--> 199 for r in > hamiltonian.atoms(sympy.Function)} 200 201 hamiltonian = > hamiltonian.subs(subs) > TypeError: 'Symbol' object is not callable > > Could you please help me in the above context. > > Thanks in Advance. > > Naveen > > > -- > > > With Best Regards > NAVEEN YADAV > Ph.D Research Scholar > Deptt. Of Physics & Astrophysics > University Of Delhi. >