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Hubbard square 4x4, U = 4, n = 1

Exact energy and best values (rules §6)

exact -0.8513659 ED
best variational -0.8511(1) VMC (TQS)
Yamazaki et al. (2026) · 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↓ = 8 on 16 sites.

lattice
square
sites
16
boundary
periodic
Nf
8
U
4
energies
5

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 (2)

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
-0.8513659exact 0 n/a n/a n/a ED QMBL check, checks/hubbard-4x4-half-filling-ed/ QMBL code n/a
-0.8510 3.7e-4 3.8e-4 n/a n/a AFQMC
peer reviewed
Qin et al. (2016) 2016

Strict variational upper bounds (3)

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
-0.8511best variational 0 1.3e-4 n/a n/a VMC (TQS) Yamazaki et al. (2026) 2026
-0.8511tied with best variational at 2σ <1e-4 2.2e-4 n/a n/a VMC (PITQS) Yamazaki et al. (2026) Zenodo 18334851 2026
-0.8486 2.5e-3 n/a n/a n/a VMC (HB)
preprint
Zhou et al. (2026) 2026

How these numbers were read

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

-0.8513659, ED

Checked 2026-09-29 · ed_full2.py (code B: plain Lanczos, Hubbard kernel with fixed N_up = N_dn = 8, 165,636,900 states, true residual 5.2e-11 at U = 4 and 3.7e-11 at U = 8) and hub_fact.py (code A: the factorised matvec T x 1 + 1 x T + U D of checks/hubbard-u-labels/ed_check.py with ARPACK, residual 9.8e-12 and 5.7e-12), an AMD EPYC 9654 server, 2026-09-29

Reported as. -13.621854821161437 (ed_full2.py) | -13.621854821162666 (hub_fact.py)

Total energy, t = 1, H = -t sum (c+c + h.c.) + U sum n_up n_dn on the periodic 4x4 lattice (32 bonds); E/N = -0.851365926. Replaces the quoted exact row -13.62192 (-0.85137 x 16), which lay below this ground state: its per-site quote is this energy rounded to the printed digits, so add_allresults_rows.mjs skips it as the exact row already carried; the producer prints -13.6219 (arXiv:1207.4847 Table IV), this energy to its printed digits. Carried to 10 decimals, the agreement of the two codes.

-0.8511(1), VMC (TQS)

Checked 2026-09-15 · source text of arXiv:2602.03031 read locally (arXiv HTML or pypdf layout text); value copied from the harvested cell and the text, no LLM transcription of numbers; adversarial re-read: confirmed

Reported as. -0.85114(13)

Table 7, row 'TQS', column E(U/t=4): -0.85114(13), N_p=11,424. | Same Table 7 as the ED row above; same Hamiltonian/convention, no rescale.

-0.8511(2), VMC (PITQS)

Checked 2026-09-15 · source text of arXiv:2602.03031 read locally (arXiv HTML or pypdf layout text); value copied from the harvested cell and the text, no LLM transcription of numbers; adversarial re-read: confirmed

Reported as. -0.85113(22)

Table 7, row 'PITQS', column E(U/t=4): -0.85113(22), N_p=4,752. | Same Table 7 as the ED row above; same Hamiltonian/convention, no rescale.

-0.8510(4), 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 = -13.616(6) (total), 4 x 4, U = 4, PBC

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. 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.

-0.8486, VMC (HB)

Checked 2026-09-15 · source text of arXiv:2606.00924 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. -0.8486

Table II, row '4 × 4', column 'U = 4, K = 1' | Same row's quoted QMC value (-0.8510(4)) matches instance exact_per_site -0.851 exactly.

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