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Hubbard square 4x4, U = 4, n = 0.625

Exact energy and best values (rules §6)

exact -1.2238086 ED
Wu et al. (2024) · the instance is solved
best variational -1.2238086 DMRG
Wu et al. (2024) · the lowest unflagged variational energy, a strict variational bound

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↓ = 5 on 16 sites.

lattice
square
sites
16
boundary
periodic
Nf
5
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).

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.

E/sitedistance to class bestσVar(E)V-score methodsourcecodeyearcomment
-1.2238086exact 0 n/a n/a n/a ED
VarBench reference run
Wu et al. (2024) run script 2024

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
-1.2238086best variational 0 n/a 4.53e-7 6.8e-9 DMRG
VarBench reference run
Wu et al. (2024) run script 2024
-1.223807tied with best variational at 2σ 1.6e-6 7.0e-6 1.41e-4 2.1e-6 VMC (HFPS)
peer reviewed
Chen et al. (2026) uses Quantax 2026

How these numbers were read

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

-1.2238086, ED

Checked 2026-09-29 · QMBL ED cost run checks/cost/ed/results/Hubbard--square_16_P_5_4.json (checks/cost/ed/run_ed.py: NetKet 3.22.4 operator, sparse CSR built in blocks, SciPy eigsh/ARPACK k=1 SA; commit 5763525; host eu-g5-024-1); results file read locally, no rerun

Reported as. energy -19.580937525419102 (stored_exact -19.580937525419095, relative_difference 3.63e-16, reproduces_stored true)

|reproduced - stored| = 7.11e-15 (relative 3.63e-16); within 1e-9 relative. Sector N_up = N_dn = 5, dimension 19079424, 121 Lanczos steps (the file states no residual). The stored value is the source's own ED (varbench@2024-10-22), so two codes agree; a third code, E1's node Lanczos (qmbl-runs/qmbl-verify/out/E1-exact-recompute/results/Hubbard__square_16_P_5_4.json), gives -19.580937525418562 (5.40e-13 from the cost run). Also read by VB2-varbench-code-hubbard#54 (scope value: VarBench Hubbard/square_16_P_5_4.md row 'Exact diagonalization'; checks/hubbard-u-labels/ed_results.jsonl job {lattice: square, L: 4, n: 5, U: 4}).

-1.2238086, DMRG

Checked 2026-09-29 · run script programs/dmrg_itensors_hubbard/square_16_P_5_4.jl (varbench/methods@ed31bb0) read in full (author copy MaxSilvester/Hubbard-and-Heisenberg-codes identical in physics); VarBench history (git clone of github.com/varbench/varbench, partial, read with git log --follow; old names normalised); energy compared with the QMBL full-space recompute

Reported as. -19.58093750854 | | 4.53e-7 | DMRG(MaxBondDim = 7000) (VarBench upload, J. Maxwell Silvester)

4x4 torus (32 bonds), t = 1, U n_up n_dn with no shift, N_up = N_dn = 5: the instance at U = 4. The energy is the reached DMRG energy at the final maxdim and lies above the exact energy at the script's U, as a variational energy must; variational correct. Temple check (E - E0 <= Var/(E1 - E), E1 = -18.155135915830726 the next level, lanczos ritz (no reorth)): E - E0 = 1.7e-8 vs bound 3.2e-7, consistent. History: uploaded 2022-09-16 (ec9a6d0), unchanged. No output log (scope config).

-1.223807(7), VMC (HFPS)

Checked 2026-09-15 · source text of arXiv:2507.10705 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. -1.223807(7)

TABLE II, row U=4, column 'E/N_site', sigma^2/N_site=8.8e-6 | Same instance identity as ED row; matches record_per_site -1.22380859428375 to 5 decimal places.

Coverage

Newest published number here: 2026. Literature last checked 2026-09-15 (table harvest of cached arXiv sources (match_tables.mjs --all), every matched paper read for this instance): 5 papers read, 1 of them with an energy on this page.

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