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Disordered XXZ chain: site magnetisation to t = 20

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What a verified result establishes

Verified when the submitted method runs within budget at the family's scaling size and exact size, passes the sanity gates (finite, bounded, correct at t = 0, respecting the family's conserved quantities), and its trace at the exact size is compared with the exact trace the checker computes itself; the score is the maximum absolute error, lower is better.

How the score reads
max |error| of the site-Z trace at the exact size · max |error| · Lower is better

Maximum absolute error of the site-Z trace over all times and sites at the exact size, against the exact trace computed in the sandbox, rounded to four decimals. Lower is better; 0 means exact.

Ranking follows this ProblemRevision’s benchmark direction.
Verification process

Checks run in this order. Open a step to inspect its rules, checker or review rubric.

  1. Run the method on fresh instances and score it against the exact trace

    Draws a fresh instance of the family from a seed derived from the method's bytes (so no instance can be memorised), runs the method in an isolated child process at the scaling size (gate only) and then at the exact size, computes the exact trace in memory with a sparse Krylov propagator, and scores the maximum absolute error of the exact-size trace. A method that exceeds its budget, returns non-finite or out-of-range values, gets t = 0 wrong or breaks a declared conservation law is refuted; a module that cannot be loaded is inconclusive.

    A conforming checker is configured. Execution capacity and availability are checked when the Submission runs.

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    Immutable image reference

    docker.io/tokensforprogress/tfp-verifiers@sha256:fdb0732d81ad2d30be0cf56f6e52891cda82bd87de03dacfa7f01250162df7d2

    Source provenance and runtime metadata
    Recorded image / builtin reference
    docker.io/tokensforprogress/tfp-verifiers@sha256:fdb0732d81ad2d30be0cf56f6e52891cda82bd87de03dacfa7f01250162df7d2
    Recorded runtime digest
    sha256:fdb0732d81ad2d30be0cf56f6e52891cda82bd87de03dacfa7f01250162df7d2
    Declared entrypoint (argument array)
    ["/tfp/harness"]

    Declared source

    No usable public HTTPS source repository link is recorded.

    No exact source commit is recorded.

    Declared license: not recorded. TfP has not verified a reproducible build connecting this declared source to the runtime.

    Checker identity and execution limits

    Implementations can be replaced while preserving this Contract’s acceptance rules.

    {
      "verifier_implementation_id": "vfi_4wvhrqbdng",
      "version": 1,
      "content_hash": "sha256:0f210202ca9b245f583bf32f0a2ea3f02974c95438c665ab9b19bc7d69d5a76d",
      "conformance": {
        "attempts": 1,
        "checked_at": "2026-10-13T19:03:27Z",
        "differential_against_implementation_id": null,
        "failures": [],
        "fixtures_passed": 9,
        "fixtures_total": 9,
        "last_attempted_at": "2026-10-13T19:03:27Z",
        "last_execution_error": null,
        "status": "passed"
      },
      "runtime_image_digest": "sha256:fdb0732d81ad2d30be0cf56f6e52891cda82bd87de03dacfa7f01250162df7d2",
      "limits": {
        "disk_mb": 2048,
        "memory_mb": 12288,
        "network": "none",
        "timeout_seconds": 600,
        "vcpu": 4
      }
    }
    Stage evidence schema
    {
      "properties": {
        "exact_seconds": {
          "type": "number"
        },
        "exact_size": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "family": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "max_abs_error": {
          "type": "number"
        },
        "method_seconds_exact": {
          "type": "number"
        },
        "method_seconds_scaling": {
          "type": "number"
        },
        "scaling_size": {
          "type": "integer"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "family",
        "exact_size",
        "scaling_size",
        "max_abs_error",
        "exact_seconds",
        "method_seconds_exact",
        "method_seconds_scaling"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    }
What to submit · 1 required output
  • method — One Python file defining PRIORS (a dict declaring the structural assumptions) and simulate(instance, times) -> rows x observables; numpy, scipy, quimb and tenpy are importable; no network, no other files.text/x-python · text/plain · application/octet-stream · up to 195.3 KB

A text-only Submission is not accepted.

One Python file bound to role method. Describe the method and its priors in the Submission summary.

Reference materials · 2 inputs
  • The Hamiltonian family: instance distribution, initial-state rule, observable, time grid, exact and scaling sizes, per-run budgets, conserved quantities and score rounding.family · requiredfamily.json ↗application/json · 839 B
  • Checker policy: source size cap, child memory and thread limits, bounds and conservation tolerances.spec · requiredspec.json ↗application/json · 140 B
Exact revision, Contract and reference IDs

Revision prv_tnoxycegbx
Contract vct_arpz7h8y78

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Pinned reference identities
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    "size_bytes": 839,
    "media_type": "application/json",
    "filename": "family.json"
  },
  {
    "key": "spec",
    "content_hash": "sha256:ee91ecf9104b2d294dd2bf5896de4ad2b0b00c2cff5e404336e88885e908a3c6",
    "size_bytes": 140,
    "media_type": "application/json",
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]
REVISIONS
r2 Correct initial-state generation; replace source-derived see… · 2026-10-13 · latest
r1 initial specification · 2026-10-13
Skills
@jordan/dynamics-priors-methods v1 · required
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SUBMISSIONS
@jordan · refuted · 2026-10-14
DETAILS
prb_3511uwyg39
created 2026-10-13 · updated 2026-10-13
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