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Hydrogen chain H50 chain, open, R = 4.2, STO-6G

Best values (rules §6)

best variational -0.4749942 LDMRG
10.1063/1.2345196 · the lowest unflagged variational energy, a strict variational bound
best approximate -0.4302988 MP2
10.1063/1.2345196 · the lowest unflagged approximate energy, an approximate method, whose error has no known sign

Energies as E/N (Ha). Classes are different claims and are not ranked against each other.

The Hamiltonian

H = −½ ∑i ∇i2 − ∑i,I 1/|ri − RI| + ∑i<j 1/|ri − rj| + ∑I<J 1/|RI − RJ|

Hydrogen chain: 50 protons equally spaced on a line, spacing R = 4.2 bohr, open (a finite molecule); N↑ = 25, N↓ = 25. Projected onto the STO-6G basis set; full CI in it is this instance's exact energy. Hartree atomic units, nuclear repulsion included; the energy per atom is E/N.

geometry
chain
atoms
50
boundary
open
N_up
25
N_dn
25
R
4.2
basis
STO-6G
energies
3

Stored as a total energy in Hartree, nuclear repulsion included (rules §13); quoted here as E/N (Ha), the energy per atom (how the conversion works).

Every published energy

Grouped by what the number is. The exact energy comes first where there is one; in every other group the lowest unflagged energy is its best value, and each row's distance is to that best (rules §6).

Strict variational upper bounds (2)

Energies that a variational state reached (VMC, DMRG and MPS at finite bond dimension, PEPS, NQS, VQE). Each is an upper bound on the ground-state energy.

E/N (Ha)distance to class bestσVar(E)V-score methodsourcecodeyearcomment
-0.4749942best variational 0 n/a n/a n/a LDMRG
peer reviewed
10.1063/1.2345196 2006
-0.379119 9.6e-2 n/a n/a n/a HF
peer reviewed
10.1063/1.2345196 2006

Approximate methods (no bound) (1)

Methods that converge to a fixed approximation and not to the exact energy: RPA, finite-order perturbation theory, coupled cluster restricted to some of its terms. Their error has no known sign, so they are compared only with each other (rules §4).

E/N (Ha)distance to class bestσVar(E)V-score methodsourcecodeyearcomment
-0.4302988best approximate 0 n/a n/a n/a MP2
peer reviewed
10.1063/1.2345196 2006

How these numbers were read

Where each number below was read, and how it was checked.

-0.4749942, LDMRG

Checked 2026-10-20 · source text of arXiv:cond-mat/0606115 read locally (pypdf layout text; the generator finds every value again on its line), no LLM transcription of numbers; single reading

Reported as. E_RHF -18.95595 + E_corr -4.79376 = -23.74971 (totals)

Table VI, R = 4.2 row; sources/cond-mat-0606115.txt line 841; version read: arXiv v3 (journal copy not reached, AIP HTTP 403) | Hartree totals: E_RHF (total, with nuclear repulsion) and E_RHF,el printed side by side; at R = 1.8 bohr E_RHF + E_corr[LDMRG(500)] = -27.03865 against the 2017 STO-6G DMRG -27.03864 for H50.

-0.4302988, MP2

Checked 2026-10-20 · source text of arXiv:cond-mat/0606115 read locally (pypdf layout text; the generator finds every value again on its line), no LLM transcription of numbers; single reading

Reported as. E_RHF -18.95595 + E_corr -2.55899 = -21.51494 (totals)

Table VI, R = 4.2 row; sources/cond-mat-0606115.txt line 841; version read: arXiv v3 (journal copy not reached, AIP HTTP 403) | Hartree totals: E_RHF (total, with nuclear repulsion) and E_RHF,el printed side by side; at R = 1.8 bohr E_RHF + E_corr[LDMRG(500)] = -27.03865 against the 2017 STO-6G DMRG -27.03864 for H50.

-0.379119, HF

Checked 2026-10-20 · source text of arXiv:cond-mat/0606115 read locally (pypdf layout text; the generator finds every value again on its line), no LLM transcription of numbers; single reading

Reported as. E_RHF -18.955 95 (total)

Table VI, R = 4.2 row; sources/cond-mat-0606115.txt line 841; version read: arXiv v3 (journal copy not reached, AIP HTTP 403) | Hartree totals: E_RHF (total, with nuclear repulsion) and E_RHF,el printed side by side; at R = 1.8 bohr E_RHF + E_corr[LDMRG(500)] = -27.03865 against the 2017 STO-6G DMRG -27.03864 for H50.

Coverage

Newest published number here: 2006.

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