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arxiv: 1505.03267 · v1 · pith:EFILH7CTnew · submitted 2015-05-13 · ⚛️ physics.comp-ph

Simple and efficient way of speeding up transmission calculations with k-point sampling

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The transmissions as functions of energy are central for electron or phonon transport in the Landauer transport picture. We suggest a simple and computationally "cheap" post-processing scheme to interpolate transmission functions over $k$-points to get smooth well-converged average transmission functions. This is relevant for data obtained using typical "expensive" first principles calculations where the leads/electrodes are described by periodic boundary conditions. We show examples of transport in graphene structures where a speed-up of an order of magnitude is easily obtained.

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