Numerical Calculation of Hamiltonian Overlaps

In summary, the speaker is reading a paper and wants to reproduce its results for N=5. They are struggling with a computationally taxing step and are asking for advice on how to deal with it numerically.
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thatboi
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Hi all,
I am currently reading through this paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/10/4/045030
and would like to reproduce their results for N=5.
My roadblock is with (9), which models the classical motion of the system. Now symbolically finding the eigenstates of the matrix (4) for N=5 is too computationally taxing to make this a viable choice. It would be easy to numerically calculate the overlap on its own, but my problem is with the gradient term. How should I deal with it numerically?
Thanks.
 
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thatboi said:
It would be easy to numerically calculate the overlap on its own, but my problem is with the gradient term. How should I deal with it numerically?
It can be approximated using a finite difference method.
 
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