Chapter 8: Hamiltonians and Energy Landscapes

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Section plan:

Introduces Hamiltonians as mathematical descriptions of energy, connects eigenvalues to energy levels, and explains why many optimization problems can be reformulated as finding a low-energy or ground-state configuration.