“…Lattice models, such as the Heisenberg or Hubbard models 5 , 6 have been extremely important for the understanding of strongly-correlated many-particle systems. Despite their simplicity, when employed appropriately, these models are able to capture phenomena sufficiently accurately: the Hubbard model has been shown to reproduce the Mott metal-insulator transition, and has been recently associated to the behaviour of ‘exotic’ systems such as inhomogeneous superfluidity in spin-imbalanced systems 7 , 8 , chains of Bose-Einstein condensates 9 , or entanglement in nanostructures 10 , 11 . However, when interactions and inhomogeneities are included, even these lattice models can rapidly become computationally intractable as the size of the systems increases.…”