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Hubbard square 12x12, U = 4, n ≈ 0.8056

Best values (rules §6)

best variational -1.1061 VMC (tensor BF)
Liang (2025) · the lowest unflagged variational energy, a strict variational bound
best projected -1.1089(2) CP-AFQMC
Shi & Zhang (2013) · the lowest unflagged projected energy, a projected estimate, which depends on its node or constraint

Energies as E/site. Classes are different claims and are not ranked against each other.

The Hamiltonian

H = −t ∑⟨ij⟩,σ (c†iσcjσ + h.c.) + U ∑i ni↑ni↓

t = 1, U = 4, N↑ = N↓ = 58 on 144 sites.

lattice
square
sites
144
boundary
periodic
Nf
58
U
4
energies
3

Stored as a total energy; quoted here as E/site, which is what the papers report (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/sitedistance to class bestσVar(E)V-score methodsourcecodeyearcomment
-1.1061best variational 0 n/a n/a n/a VMC (tensor BF)
peer reviewed
Liang (2025) 2025
-1.1038 2.3e-3 n/a n/a n/a VMC (tensor BF)
peer reviewed
Liang (2025) 2025

Projected or fixed-node estimates (1)

Variational only within a constraint: fixed-node, constrained-path, GFMC on a trial state. Each depends on its node or constraint, so two of them are not cleanly comparable to each other or to strict bounds.

E/sitedistance to class bestσVar(E)V-score methodsourcecodeyearcomment
-1.1089best projected 0 2.0e-4 n/a n/a CP-AFQMC Shi & Zhang (2013) 2013

How these numbers were read

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

-1.1089(2), CP-AFQMC

Checked 2026-09-29 · arXiv:1307.2147v3 (28 Sep 2013), v1 (8 Jul 2013) and v2 (31 Aug 2013) PDFs, pypdf plain + layout (sources/1307.2147v{1,2,3}.va5.*); Table II identical in all three versions; journal PDF not read

Reported as. -1.1089(2) per site (E/L, units of t)

Stored energy and sigma equal the printed RC/SYM cell x N exactly. Instance agrees: square 12 x 12, PBC, N_up = N_dn = 58, U = 4, t' = 0, standard Hubbard form (no shift; Einf 93.44444444444444 = U N_up N_dn / N). bound_type projected agrees with RULES 4 (constraint release; the paper's 'essentially exact' is not a bound and not an established exact result, since RC 'can converge from below or above'). Primary source: the paper's own computation; VarBench upload by Yiqi Yang bfed1d8 2022-03-17 with this reference, never changed. Venue PRB (peer reviewed). Other rows: Tensor-Backflow -158.9472 and + 1 Lanczos step -159.2784 (arXiv:2507.01856), both above. No duplicate. Same-source values not in the table: CP/UHF -1.10912(3), CP/SYM -1.11015(3) (Table II).

-1.1061, VMC (tensor BF)

Checked 2026-09-15 · source text of arXiv:2507.01856 read locally (arXiv HTML or pypdf layout text); value copied from the harvested cell and the text, no LLM transcription of numbers; single reading

Reported as. -1.1061

Table I row '116/144 12x12' (p.5). | Same as above.

-1.1038, VMC (tensor BF)

Checked 2026-09-15 · source text of arXiv:2507.01856 read locally (arXiv HTML or pypdf layout text); value copied from the harvested cell and the text, no LLM transcription of numbers; single reading

Reported as. -1.1038

Table I row '116/144 12x12': Ep=0=-1.1038, Ep=1=-1.1061, Ref=-1.110244 (p.5). | n=116/144=0.80556 => Nf=58 on 144 sites, U=4, PBC matches Hubbard/square_144_P_58_4 exactly.

Coverage

Newest published number here: 2025. Literature last checked 2026-09-15 (table harvest of cached arXiv sources (match_tables.mjs --all), every matched paper read for this instance): 3 papers read, 1 of them with an energy on this page.

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