We study the filling-controlled metal-insulator transition in the two-dimensional Hubbard model near half-filling with the use of zero temperature quantum Monte Carlo methods. In the metallic phase, the compressibility behaves as
κ∝∣μ−μc∣−0.58±0.08 where
μc is the critical chemical potential. In the insulating phase, the localization length follows
ξl∝∣μ−μc∣−νl with
νl=0.26±0.05. Under the assumption of hyperscaling, the compressibility data leads to a correlation length exponent
νκ=0.21±0.04. Our results show that the exponents
νκ and
νl agree within statistical uncertainty. This confirms the assumption of hyperscaling with correlation length exponent
ν=1/4 and dynamical exponent
z=4. In contrast the metal-insulator transition in the generic band insulators in all dimensions as well as in the one-dimensional Hubbard model satisfy the hyperscaling assumption with exponents
ν=1/2 and
z=2.