Ground-state energy of the [4Fe-4S] iron–sulfur cluster
Find the lowest variational energy of a 54-electron, 36-orbital [4Fe-4S] cluster model; DMRG reaches about −327.24 Eh, the tracker's best entry −327.175.
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| 12 | "task": "Find the lowest variational energy of the [4Fe-4S] (54e, 36o) Hamiltonian", |
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| 14 | "name": "Variational energy (Eh)", |
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| 18 | "name": "TrimCI_202511_6e7 on 4fe_4s_54e_36o (issue #58)", |
| 19 | "score": -327.175 |
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| 27 | "curator": "Quantum Advantage Tracker reviewers (IBM, Flatiron Institute, BlueQubit, Algorithmiq and others)", |
| 28 | "poser": "IBM and RIKEN (tracker instance); active space from Li and Chan (2017)", |
| 29 | "status": "baseline benchmark", |
| 30 | "as_of": "2026-10-20", |
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