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Shastry-Sutherland square 6x6, J = 0.8, Jd = 1

Exact energy and best values (rules §6)

exact -0.4517531 ED
10.1142/S0129183106009709, · the instance is solved
best variational -0.451717(6) VMC (ConvNeXt)
10.1103/ybgv-35jm, · the lowest unflagged variational energy, a strict variational bound
best extrapolated -0.45175 VMC (Transformer)
10.1103/PhysRevB.111.134411, · the lowest unflagged extrapolated energy, an extrapolation, not a bound

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

The Hamiltonian

H = J ∑⟨ij⟩ σi·σj + Jd ∑dimers σi·σj

Shastry-Sutherland lattice: a square lattice of bonds J with one diagonal bond Jd in every second plaquette, the orthogonal dimers. J = 0.8, Jd = 1, the couplings of the spin-1/2 form with S = σ/2, normalised to Jd = 1 (RULES.md 2.1); written here with Pauli matrices, so E/N in S units is E/(4N).

lattice
square
sites
36
boundary
periodic
J
0.8
Jd
1
energies
8

Stored as a total energy; quoted here as E/N (S.S), 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/N (S.S)distance to class bestσVar(E)V-score methodsourcecodeyearcomment
-0.4517531exact 0 n/a n/a n/a ED
peer reviewed
10.1142/S0129183106009709, 2006
-0.4517531 0 n/a n/a n/a ED
peer reviewed
10.1103/PhysRevB.111.134411, 2025

Strict variational upper bounds (5)

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 (S.S)distance to class bestσVar(E)V-score methodsourcecodeyearcomment
-0.451717best variational 0 6.0e-6 n/a n/a VMC (ConvNeXt)
peer reviewed
10.1103/ybgv-35jm, NeuralQXLab/convnextnnqs 2025
-0.4517072tied with best variational at 2σ 9.8e-6 n/a n/a n/a VMC (Transformer)
peer reviewed
10.1103/PhysRevB.111.134411, 2025
-0.4516991 1.8e-5 n/a n/a n/a VMC (Transformer)
peer reviewed
10.1103/PhysRevB.111.134411, 2025
-0.4516642 5.3e-5 n/a n/a n/a VMC (Transformer)
peer reviewed
10.1103/PhysRevB.111.134411, 2025
-0.451633 8.4e-5 6.0e-6 n/a n/a VMC (ConvNeXt)
peer reviewed
10.1103/ybgv-35jm, NeuralQXLab/convnextnnqs 2025

Extrapolations (1)

Zero-variance or bond-dimension extrapolations. These are not bounds: no ansatz reached the number.

E/N (S.S)distance to class bestσVar(E)V-score methodsourcecodeyearcomment
-0.45175best extrapolated 0 n/a n/a n/a VMC (Transformer)
peer reviewed
10.1103/PhysRevB.111.134411, 2025

How these numbers were read

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

-0.4517531, ED

Checked 2026-10-20 · source text of arXiv:cond-mat/0605464 read locally (arXiv HTML or pypdf layout text); value copied from the harvested cell and the text, no LLM transcription of numbers; first reading and an adversarial second reading (2026-10-20)

Reported as. -0.451753105004501

Table II (6 x 6), x = 0.8; version read: arXiv text (sources/cond-mat-0605464.txt); the journal version was not reached from this session, to be read on the verification pass (RULES.md 8) | Eq. (1) H = J2 sum S.S (square bonds) + J1 sum S.S (diagonal dimer bonds), x = J2/J1, E0/N per site in units of J1 (the Fig. 1 caption swaps the labels; the tables fix them: E0/N = -0.375, the dimer-product energy, for all x below xc, and x = 0.8 equals the 6 x 6 ED of arXiv:2311.16889).

-0.4517531, ED

Checked 2026-10-20 · source text of arXiv:2311.16889 read locally (arXiv HTML or pypdf layout text); value copied from the harvested cell and the text, no LLM transcription of numbers; first reading and an adversarial second reading (2026-10-20)

Reported as. -0.4517531

Table I caption, 6 x 6 cluster; version read: arXiv text (sources/2311.16889.txt); the journal version was not reached from this session, to be read on the verification pass (RULES.md 8); the source's own diagonalization (Fig. 5b: exact-diagonalization spin-spin correlations; Fig. 8: exact triplet energies of the 6 x 6 cluster), a row beside cond-mat/0605464's under RULES.md 6 (2026-10-24) | Eq. (1) H = J sum S.S (square bonds) + J' sum S.S (dimer bonds), spin-1/2, J/J' = 0.8, energies per site in units of J' (Table I caption).

-0.45175, VMC (Transformer)

Checked 2026-10-20 · source text of arXiv:2311.16889 read locally (arXiv HTML or pypdf layout text); value copied from the harvested cell and the text, no LLM transcription of numbers; first reading and an adversarial second reading (2026-10-20)

Reported as. -0.451750

Table I, L = 6, column Extrap.; the caption says the Monte Carlo error is on the last digit; version read: arXiv text (sources/2311.16889.txt); the journal version was not reached from this session, to be read on the verification pass (RULES.md 8) | Eq. (1) H = J sum S.S (square bonds) + J' sum S.S (dimer bonds), spin-1/2, J/J' = 0.8, energies per site in units of J' (Table I caption).

-0.451717(6), VMC (ConvNeXt)

Checked 2026-10-20 · source text of arXiv:2505.03466 read locally (arXiv HTML or pypdf layout text); value copied from the harvested cell and the text, no LLM transcription of numbers; first reading and an adversarial second reading (2026-10-20)

Reported as. -0.451717(6)

Fig. 5 caption, first of 'the respective final energies' (with patching; the text's relative errors 8.0e-5 and 2.7e-4 fix the order); version read: arXiv text (sources/2505.03466.txt); the journal version was not reached from this session, to be read on the verification pass (RULES.md 8) | Eq. (1) H = J1 sum S.S + J2 sum S.S with S = sigma/2, Table I '(J1 = 0.8, J2 = 1)', J2 on the dimer bonds (the text's 'J1 = 1, J2 = 0.8' is swapped: Table I's quoted ED -0.4517531 and fViT -0.449329 are arXiv:2311.16889's at J/J' = 0.8); E/N per site, L x L with periodic boundaries (Sec. II).

-0.4517072, VMC (Transformer)

Checked 2026-10-20 · source text of arXiv:2311.16889 read locally (arXiv HTML or pypdf layout text); value copied from the harvested cell and the text, no LLM transcription of numbers; first reading and an adversarial second reading (2026-10-20)

Reported as. -0.4517072

Table I, L = 6, column n_l = 8; the caption says the Monte Carlo error is on the last digit; version read: arXiv text (sources/2311.16889.txt); the journal version was not reached from this session, to be read on the verification pass (RULES.md 8) | Eq. (1) H = J sum S.S (square bonds) + J' sum S.S (dimer bonds), spin-1/2, J/J' = 0.8, energies per site in units of J' (Table I caption).

-0.4516991, VMC (Transformer)

Checked 2026-10-20 · source text of arXiv:2311.16889 read locally (arXiv HTML or pypdf layout text); value copied from the harvested cell and the text, no LLM transcription of numbers; first reading and an adversarial second reading (2026-10-20)

Reported as. -0.4516991

Table I, L = 6, column n_l = 4; the caption says the Monte Carlo error is on the last digit; version read: arXiv text (sources/2311.16889.txt); the journal version was not reached from this session, to be read on the verification pass (RULES.md 8) | Eq. (1) H = J sum S.S (square bonds) + J' sum S.S (dimer bonds), spin-1/2, J/J' = 0.8, energies per site in units of J' (Table I caption).

-0.4516642, VMC (Transformer)

Checked 2026-10-20 · source text of arXiv:2311.16889 read locally (arXiv HTML or pypdf layout text); value copied from the harvested cell and the text, no LLM transcription of numbers; first reading and an adversarial second reading (2026-10-20)

Reported as. -0.4516642

Table I, L = 6, column n_l = 2; the caption says the Monte Carlo error is on the last digit; version read: arXiv text (sources/2311.16889.txt); the journal version was not reached from this session, to be read on the verification pass (RULES.md 8) | Eq. (1) H = J sum S.S (square bonds) + J' sum S.S (dimer bonds), spin-1/2, J/J' = 0.8, energies per site in units of J' (Table I caption).

-0.451633(6), VMC (ConvNeXt)

Checked 2026-10-20 · source text of arXiv:2505.03466 read locally (arXiv HTML or pypdf layout text); value copied from the harvested cell and the text, no LLM transcription of numbers; first reading and an adversarial second reading (2026-10-20)

Reported as. -0.451633(6)

Fig. 5 caption, second of 'the respective final energies' (without patching); version read: arXiv text (sources/2505.03466.txt); the journal version was not reached from this session, to be read on the verification pass (RULES.md 8) | Eq. (1) H = J1 sum S.S + J2 sum S.S with S = sigma/2, Table I '(J1 = 0.8, J2 = 1)', J2 on the dimer bonds (the text's 'J1 = 1, J2 = 0.8' is swapped: Table I's quoted ED -0.4517531 and fViT -0.449329 are arXiv:2311.16889's at J/J' = 0.8); E/N per site, L x L with periodic boundaries (Sec. II).

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