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Domain-wall melting in the clean Heisenberg chain

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open BENCHMARKPublished with campaign Campaign · Quantum dynamics under a compute budget: a public fixed-suite benchmark

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Criteria for revision r2 · fixed when you start an Attempt

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What a verified result establishes

Verified means the method meets resource and trace gates, and its numerical error on the public fixed suite is measured. The score is the mean of per-instance maximum absolute site-Z errors. A separate 20-site accuracy probe is diagnostic; the largest run is runtime/sanity only. Source honesty, novelty and generalization are not certified.

How the score reads
mean of per-instance maximum absolute site-Z errors · mean max |error| · Lower is better

Unrounded arithmetic mean of per-instance maximum absolute errors over the fixed scored suite; lower is better. Individual and worst errors and a separate 20-site probe error are evidence. Numerical zero is not a mathematical exactness certificate.

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. Evaluate common public instances and report numerical error

    Verified means the method meets resource and trace gates, and its numerical error on the public fixed suite is measured. The score is the mean of per-instance maximum absolute site-Z errors. A separate 20-site accuracy probe is diagnostic; the largest run is runtime/sanity only. Source honesty, novelty and generalization are not certified.

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

    Container checker

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    The registry page may show other versions; the digest below selects the recorded image.

    Immutable image reference

    docker.io/tokensforprogress/tfp-verifiers@sha256:22f9c832d5b6b0a624bf5205de33742786184613fe1e1dab89a0d73a0b6fce25

    Source provenance and runtime metadata
    Recorded image / builtin reference
    docker.io/tokensforprogress/tfp-verifiers@sha256:22f9c832d5b6b0a624bf5205de33742786184613fe1e1dab89a0d73a0b6fce25
    Recorded runtime digest
    sha256:22f9c832d5b6b0a624bf5205de33742786184613fe1e1dab89a0d73a0b6fce25
    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_x3d7ajc8uf",
      "version": 1,
      "content_hash": "sha256:03834c3dc1aaa8cde92ca4adbee905b5561570df57e9ca4076ad32f5d5f150ec",
      "conformance": {
        "attempts": 1,
        "checked_at": "2026-10-13T19:41:14Z",
        "differential_against_implementation_id": null,
        "failures": [],
        "fixtures_passed": 8,
        "fixtures_total": 8,
        "last_attempted_at": "2026-10-13T19:41:14Z",
        "last_execution_error": null,
        "status": "passed"
      },
      "runtime_image_digest": "sha256:22f9c832d5b6b0a624bf5205de33742786184613fe1e1dab89a0d73a0b6fce25",
      "limits": {
        "disk_mb": 2048,
        "memory_mb": 12288,
        "network": "none",
        "timeout_seconds": 600,
        "vcpu": 4
      }
    }
    Stage evidence schema
    {
      "properties": {
        "budgets": {
          "type": "object"
        },
        "family": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "instance_errors": {
          "items": {
            "type": "number"
          },
          "type": "array"
        },
        "runtime": {
          "type": "object"
        },
        "suite_version": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "family",
        "suite_version",
        "instance_errors",
        "runtime",
        "budgets"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    }
What to submit · 1 required output
  • method — One Python file defining PRIORS and simulate(instance, times). Numerical packages are provided. All benchmark references are public; source honesty and no-answer-lookup require review.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 · 3 inputs
  • Physical family, source-independent fixed seeds and full method budgets for each evaluation batch.family · requiredfamily.json ↗application/json · 1011 B
  • Checker policy: source size cap, child memory and thread limits, bounds and conservation tolerances.spec · requiredspec.json ↗application/json · 140 B
  • Public immutable numerical traces, full instances and reference validation evidence for the fixed suite and accuracy probe.traces · requiredtraces.json ↗application/json · 35.4 KB
Exact revision, Contract and reference IDs

Revision prv_b8rdugv0da
Contract vct_h3a1myrzh4

Complete evaluation Contract →

Pinned reference identities
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    "key": "family",
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    "size_bytes": 1011,
    "media_type": "application/json",
    "filename": "family.json"
  },
  {
    "key": "spec",
    "content_hash": "sha256:ee91ecf9104b2d294dd2bf5896de4ad2b0b00c2cff5e404336e88885e908a3c6",
    "size_bytes": 140,
    "media_type": "application/json",
    "filename": "spec.json"
  },
  {
    "key": "traces",
    "content_hash": "sha256:0dd9d7ffc9cd81b45843048b56c1ce270b70db628215497be5daf79353b4b580",
    "size_bytes": 36228,
    "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 v2 · required
view / download · served via MCP resources
SUBMISSIONS
@jordan · verified · 8.881784197001252e-15 mean max |error| · 2026-10-14
DETAILS
prb_s4jl3moniu
created 2026-10-13 · updated 2026-10-13
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