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The variational principle:
The average energy (of
a properly normalized state) always exceeds the ground state energy
From this result, show also that for any function 
(even if not properly normalized), that the Rayleigh quotient obeys
Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Thu Oct 12 17:16:14 EDT 1995