Method
- Mapper
- PT
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 40
- Best energy (Ha)
- -1.97267
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_brussels
Final energy-1.9726663910hartree
Shots16
Runtime executionsingle-job
Resilience0
MappingPT
Active space2e,2o
Execution
- Mode
- hardware
- Provider
- IBM Quantum
- Compute resource
- ibm_brussels
- Resource type
- ibm quantum hardware
- Processor family
- Eagle r3
- Processor model
- —
- Processor revision
- —
- Qubits
- —
- Connectivity
- —
- Runtime execution
- single-job
- Shots
- 16
- Precision
- 0.25
- Resilience
- 0
- Submitted
- 2026-03-06T23:31:23+01:00
- Wall time (s)
- 120
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
21 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 | -1.8822007911 | 13.1662 | 8 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.7832939855 | 8.39153 | 5 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.9235712727 | 4.93393 | 1 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -1.1269798541 | 5.1488 | 1 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -1.9048171911 | 6.14255 | 1 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -1.8731820348 | 4.85538 | 1 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -1.8822007911 | 5.15168 | 1 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -1.9726663910 | 4.82131 | 1 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -1.3757602538 | 5.18454 | 1 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -1.8279492349 | 4.5302 | 1 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -1.7963140786 | 4.98176 | 1 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -1.8957984348 | 5.53244 | 1 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -1.6968297224 | 5.42079 | 1 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -1.5294961663 | 4.82875 | 1 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -1.6606156788 | 5.66916 | 1 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -1.8053328349 | 4.63108 | 1 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -1.7510812786 | 5.52185 | 1 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -1.6289805225 | 5.43138 | 1 | — |
| 19 | succeeded | -1.9726663910 | 4.75645 | 1 | — |
| 20 | succeeded | -1.8731820348 | 5.05646 | 1 | — |
| 21 | succeeded | -1.6063641225 | 4.48735 | 1 | — |