Method
- Mapper
- PT
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 25
- Best energy (Ha)
- -1.87097
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_pittsburgh
Final energy-1.8578240014hartree
Shots1024
Runtime executionsession
Resilience0
MappingPT
Active space2e,2o
Execution
- Mode
- hardware
- Provider
- IBM Quantum
- Compute resource
- ibm_pittsburgh
- Resource type
- ibm quantum hardware
- Processor family
- Heron r3
- Processor model
- —
- Processor revision
- —
- Qubits
- —
- Connectivity
- —
- Runtime execution
- session
- Shots
- 1024
- Precision
- 0.03125
- Resilience
- 0
- Submitted
- 2025-11-20T12:43:53+01:00
- Wall time (s)
- 138
Molecular system
- Charge
- 0
- Multiplicity
- 1
- Basis
- STO-3G
- Active space
- 2e,2o
- Active electrons
- 2
- Spatial orbitals
- 2
- Geometry units
- angstrom
Circuit
- Logical qubits
- 1
- Physical qubits
- —
- Parameters
- —
- Depth
- 1
- Two-qubit gates
- 0
- Hamiltonian terms
- —
Dataset publication
Associated articles
- Accuracy-Cost Trade-offs for Reference VQE Calculations of H2 on IBM Quantum Hardware submitted to Quantum Science and Technology
- Accuracy-Cost Trade-offs for Reference VQE Calculations of H2 on IBM Quantum Hardware DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2604.11478 arXiv 2604.11478 published preprint
Compute access
- Fraunhofer Quantum Now and EQeS · IBM Quantum · allocation: Fraunhofer Quantum Now
Optimization trajectory
19 recorded objective evaluations. Charts use cumulative time so convergence cost remains comparable across calculations.
| Attempt | Outcome | Energy (Ha) | Elapsed (s) | Quantum (s) | Parameters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeeded | -1.8355566384 | 2512.93 | 2 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.5892704384 | 7.55881 | 2 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.8956563261 | 7.52447 | 2 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -1.6167726463 | 7.64896 | 2 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -1.6571945462 | 7.44359 | 2 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -1.8516062292 | 6.81322 | 2 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -1.8133218577 | 6.84532 | 2 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -1.8362092330 | 6.64329 | 2 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -1.8416400090 | 6.60975 | 2 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -1.8339436832 | 6.96117 | 2 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -1.8484973430 | 7.39252 | 2 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -1.8664460695 | 7.78726 | 2 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -1.8316803054 | 7.01141 | 2 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -1.8509710118 | 7.53421 | 2 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -1.8460236743 | 6.94428 | 2 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -1.8410091360 | 7.14583 | 2 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -1.8580364646 | 7.03618 | 2 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -1.8709706528 | 6.84525 | 2 | — |
| 19 | succeeded | -1.8578240014 | 7.41861 | 2 | — |