"""Original tight-binding effective-mass curve; write PNG to cwd. Tested with Python 3.14, NumPy and Matplotlib; see root pyproject.toml. The curve is the specified model, not a microscopic small-spacing prediction. """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib matplotlib.use("Agg") import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def main(): spacing = np.linspace(.28, 6.7, 1200) mass = np.exp(spacing - 2) * (2 / spacing)**2 fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(6.2, 3.8), facecolor="white") ax.plot(spacing, mass, lw=2, color="#1768ab") ax.scatter([2], [1], s=34, color="#bd6426", zorder=3) ax.axvline(2, ls=":", lw=1, color="#9ba5ae") ax.axhline(1, ls=":", lw=1, color="#9ba5ae") ax.annotate(r"Minimum: $a=2a_1$", xy=(2, 1), xytext=(2.65, 3.3), arrowprops={"arrowstyle": "->", "color": "#586572"}, fontsize=10) ax.set(xlim=(0, 6.7), ylim=(0, 10), xlabel=r"$a/a_1$", ylabel=r"$m^*(a)/m^*_{\min}$") ax.set_title(r"$m^*(a)\propto e^{a/a_1}/a^2$") ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) fig.tight_layout() fig.savefig(Path.cwd() / (Path(__file__).stem + ".png"), dpi=125, facecolor="white") plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()