The Hamiltonian
H = −t ∑⟨ij⟩,σ (c†iσcjσ + h.c.) + U ∑i ni↑ni↓
t = 1, U = 4, N↑ = N↓ = 8 on 16 sites.
- lattice
- square
- sites
- 16
- boundary
- periodic/antiperiodic
- Nf
- 8
- U
- 4
- energies
- 2
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).
Numerically exact (1)
Exact diagonalization, an exact solution, or sign-problem-free QMC where that is established. An exact energy is shown first, before the best of each other class. QMC is exact only within its error bar, which it must state, and reads exact (stochastic); an exact diagonalization outranks it. For a diagonalization resolved by symmetry sector only the ground state's sector is listed; the lowest energies of the other sectors are the instance's spectrum, in its JSON, and are not shown as the exact energy.
Strict variational upper bounds (1)
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.
How these numbers were read
Where each number below was read, and how it was checked.
-0.9121(2), AFQMC
Checked 2026-09-15 · arXiv PDF extracted locally with pypdf in layout mode, E rows of Table IV parsed by column position; no LLM transcription
Reported as. E = -14.594(3) (total), 4 x 4, U = 4, PBC-APBC
Table IV, "Total ground state energy (E) ... in the Hubbard model at half-filling, for U = 2, 4, 6, 8 ... for both PBC and PBC-APBC. Statistical errors are on the last digit." Row 4 x 4, column U = 4 PBC-APBC. Half filling: N_up = N_dn = 8. Cross-checks: the 8 x 8 PBC values at U = 4 and 8 agree with VarBench's own AFQMC exact rows to 1.3 sigma, and the 8 x 8, 10 x 10 and 12 x 12 PBC U = 8 values with the AFQMC references quoted by arXiv:2507.02644 (Table S1) to the printed digits.
-0.9120(1), VMC (HFDS)
Checked 2026-10-16 · source text of arXiv:2111.10420 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. -0.9120(1)
Appendix H Table V, L=4, U=4; sources/2111.10420.txt line 1275; version read: arXiv:2111.10420v2 text, Appendix H (sources/2111.10420.txt); the PNAS SI (Cloudflare 403 on 2026-10-16) was read for this paper's earlier rows on 2026-09-29 | Eq. (1): H = -sum t_ij (c+c + h.c.) + U sum n_up n_dn, t = 1. Tables I-III print totals on the 4x4 torus (ED -17.698 on 16 sites); Tables IV and V print 'energy per site'. The rounded U of the tables (0.6, 2.15, 3.6, 7.75) are the grid 10^(k/9): QMBL's ED at U = 0.59948425 gives -19.47476333 and at 2.15443469 (n = 1/2) -18.40532088, the printed ED values, against -19.47434179 at U = 0.6 and -18.40534078 at U = 2.1544 (checks/hubbard-u-labels/results-2026-10-16/, run_fermions.mjs).