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Energy derivatives

To find the derivatives of the local energy expectation value as function of the variational parameters, we can use the chain rule and the hermiticity of the Hamiltonian.

Let us define (with the notation E[α]=EL) ˉEαi=dELdαi, as the derivative of the energy with respect to the variational parameter αi We define also the derivative of the trial function (skipping the subindex T) as ˉΨi=dΨdαi.