openfermion.linalg.get_ground_state

Compute lowest eigenvalue and eigenstate.

Used in the notebooks

Used in the tutorials

sparse_operator (LinearOperator): Operator to find the ground state of. initial_guess (ndarray): Initial guess for ground state. A good guess dramatically reduces the cost required to converge.

Returns

eigenvalue:
    The lowest eigenvalue, a float.
eigenstate:
    The lowest eigenstate in scipy.sparse csc format.