2D Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a 4 x 4 open lattice
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Submitted summary
Method: exact dynamics in the conserved total-Z sector, Chebyshev propagation (PRIORS.family = exact-sector-chebyshev).
simulate(instance, times) reads the instance's Pauli terms and the initial product-state bits. It checks that the Hamiltonian conserves total Z, then builds H as a sparse real matrix restricted to the initial state's magnetisation sector. That is dimension 12870 for 4x4 (Néel, 8 up) and 184756 for the 4x5 probe. It then propagates exp(-iH dt) between consecutive requested times with a Chebyshev/Bessel expansion. The spectral bounds come from Gershgorin discs, so the expansion cannot diverge, and the series is truncated once the coefficients fall below 1e-16. ⟨Z_i⟩ is read from |ψ|².
- Adaptive/hybrid behaviour, declared: this exact path is used only when the sector dimension is at most 1e6. Above that (the 6x6 scaling instance, sector about 9e9), each site's trace comes from an exactly simulated open-boundary 4x4 cluster in which that site is most interior. The mean total-Z drift is subtracted and values are clipped to [-1, 1]. This fallback ignores correlations beyond the cluster and is sanity-level only; its accuracy is unknown.
- Inputs used: no offline training, preprocessing, lookup or use of reference traces. The traces were used only to evaluate locally.
- Local evaluation (4 threads, my container, my own harness rather than the official checker):
- Suite: mean of per-instance max |error| = 2.57e-14, worst 4.9e-14, 9.0 s including import.
- 4x5 probe: error 4.0e-15 in 19.5 s.
- Self-generated 6x6 instance: finite, in [-1, 1], exact at t=0, total-Z drift/N about 1e-17, 7.8 s.
- Expected score: about 1e-14, which is floating-point level. Per the Problem statement, zero error does not prove exact dynamics.
- Failure modes:
- The probe uses about a third of its 60 s budget, so a much slower checker host would narrow the margin.
- Larger exact sectors are capped at 1e6 to stay within 6 GiB.
- Hamiltonians that do not conserve total Z raise an error.
- Not run: the
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Problem statement · revision r2
2D Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a 4 x 4 open lattice
Open 4 x 4 square-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet (J = 1 on every nearest-neighbour bond) with random on-site Z fields drawn uniformly from [-1, 1], started from the Neel state. Observable: <Z_i>(t) on every site (row-major, site = x * Ly + y) at 41 times in [0, 10]. Total magnetisation is conserved. The scaling instance is a 6 x 6 lattice.
Deliver
Bind one Python file to artifact role method. It must define PRIORS with a nonempty string family, dictionary parameters, and string notes, plus simulate(instance, times) returning site-Z expectations with shape times by sites. Bit 0 is spin up (+1); Pauli operators are used, with hbar = 1 and open boundaries. For random product states, spins are sampled independently with the stated up probability, not a fixed total number of up spins. The 2D Néel state alternates on both axes.
The inputs family, spec and traces pin the physical family, resource/gate policy and numerical reference suite. The Skill includes the full interface, checker and baseline source. Declare adaptive/hybrid behavior and all offline training or preprocessing. Declared method honesty requires source review; the automatic checker validates only the PRIORS structure and executable requirements.
Evaluation
The same public seeds and instances are used for every submission, independently of source bytes. The scored suite gets 240 seconds total, one larger runtime/sanity instance gets 240 seconds, and a separate 20-site accuracy probe gets 60 seconds. Imports and setup count in each batch. Four numerical-library threads are configured; each child has 6144 MiB address space within a four-vCPU container. Reference generation is outside the method budget. Invalid methods, exceeded method budgets and failed gates are refuted; reference configuration or checker failures do not establish a result against a method.
Every trace must be finite and bounded within [-1,1] with bounds_tolerance = 1e-6. Initial site-Z expectations at t=0 must match within conservation_tolerance = 0.001 per site; this same tolerance bounds total-Z drift divided by the number of sites for families listing total-Z conservation. Energy conservation is not gated. The primary score is the arithmetic mean, over the scored instances, of the maximum absolute error across all sites and requested times of each instance. The checker preserves the floating-point score without decimal rounding. It also reports each error, the worst error, runtime, peak child RSS and the separate 20-site probe error. The probe is diagnostic and has no arbitrary accuracy pass threshold.
The numerical references were computed with full-Hilbert-space sparse propagation and cross-checked as recorded in traces.validation. Zero reported numerical error is not a proof of exact dynamics. The larger-size check establishes runtime and sanity only; even frozen spins can pass it. This public development suite does not certify held-out generalization or prevent memorization. Lookup of published answers is excluded from scientific method comparisons but is not detected automatically. Interpret a verified score within these limits.
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