Method
- Mapper
- JW
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 30
- Best energy (Ha)
- -0.951956
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_brussels
Final energy-0.9246666936hartree
Shots1024
Runtime executionsession
Resilience0
MappingJW
Active space2e,2o
Jordan-Wigner mapping · Shots and precision · Resilience settings
Execution
- Mode
- hardware
- Provider
- IBM Quantum
- Compute resource
- ibm_brussels
- Resource type
- ibm quantum hardware
- Processor family
- Eagle r3
- Processor model
- Not recorded
- Processor revision
- Not recorded
- Qubits
- Not recorded
- Connectivity
- Not recorded
- Runtime execution
- session
- Shots
- 1024
- Precision
- 0.03125
- Resilience
- 0
- Submitted
- 2025-11-24T13:39:02+01:00
- Wall time (s)
- 144
Molecular system
- Charge
- 0
- Multiplicity
- 1
- Basis
- STO-3G
- Active space
- 2e,2o
- Active electrons
- 2
- Spatial orbitals
- 2
- Active orbital indices
- Not recorded
- Geometry units
- angstrom
Circuit
- Logical qubits
- 4
- Physical qubits
- Not recorded
- Parameters
- Not recorded
- Depth
- 96
- Two-qubit gates
- 48
- Hamiltonian terms
- Not recorded
Scientific provenance
- Cohort
- published h2
- Reference method
- exact diagonalization
- Reference energy (Ha)
- -1.85728
- Energy convention
- Published H2 benchmark electronic-energy convention
- Absolute error (Ha)
- 0.932608
- Signed error (Ha)
- 0.932608
- Total QPU time (s)
- 47
- Calibration time
- Not recorded
- Mean readout error
- Not recorded
- Mean two-qubit gate error
- Not recorded
Software
- Qiskit
- 1.4.3
- Qiskit Aer
- 0.17.1
- Qiskit Algorithms
- 0.3.1
- Qiskit Ibm Runtime
- 0.40.1
- Qiskit Nature
- 0.7.2
- Qiskit Nature Pyscf
- 0.4.0
Molecular geometry (angstrom)
| Atom | x | y | z |
|---|---|---|---|
| H | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| H | 0 | 0 | 0.735 |
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.
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| Attempt | Outcome | Energy (Ha) | Elapsed (s) | Quantum (s) | Parameters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeeded | -0.8715915582 | 8.5244 | 3 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.8922376589 | 6.63326 | 2 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.9327412140 | 7.85186 | 3 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -0.9519558201 | 6.8249 | 3 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -0.8506959961 | 6.87094 | 2 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -0.9212730162 | 6.66085 | 2 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -0.8454763439 | 7.71161 | 3 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -0.8701022783 | 6.36786 | 2 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -0.9035535084 | 7.62495 | 2 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -0.9179337701 | 11.3499 | 4 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -0.8433564124 | 7.84223 | 2 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -0.9050240943 | 10.3189 | 4 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -0.8749383945 | 6.94849 | 2 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -0.9145084992 | 6.97129 | 2 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -0.9170726571 | 8.57005 | 3 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -0.8768564882 | 6.44175 | 2 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -0.9184609944 | 6.42857 | 2 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -0.8583626050 | 6.55904 | 2 | — |
| 19 | succeeded | -0.9246666936 | 6.63508 | 2 | — |