The Relationship With The Finite Element Method
In the language of the finite element method, the matrix is precisely the stiffness matrix of the Hamiltonian in the piecewise linear element space, and the matrix is the mass matrix. In the language of linear algebra, the value is an eigenvalue of the discretized Hamiltonian, and the vector is a discretized eigenvector.
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