Method
- Mapper
- PT
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 30
- Best energy (Ha)
- -1.91288
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_pittsburgh
Final energy-1.8542251603hartree
Shots1024
Runtime executionsingle-job
Resilience0
MappingPT
Active space2e,2o
Parity mapping with full symmetry tapering · Shots and precision · Resilience settings
Execution
- Mode
- hardware
- Provider
- IBM Quantum
- Compute resource
- ibm_pittsburgh
- Resource type
- quantum processor
- Processor family
- Heron
- Processor model
- ibm_pittsburgh
- Processor revision
- 3
- Qubits
- 156
- Connectivity
- Not recorded
- Runtime execution
- single-job
- Shots
- 1024
- Precision
- 0.03125
- Resilience
- 0
- Submitted
- 2025-12-30T17:49:44+01:00
- Wall time (s)
- 53513
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
- 1
- Physical qubits
- Not recorded
- Parameters
- Not recorded
- Depth
- 1
- Two-qubit gates
- 0
- 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)
- 0.00304987
- Signed error (Ha)
- 0.00304987
- Total QPU time (s)
- 62
- 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 | -1.8315978995 | 2793.5 | 2 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.5964768093 | 3031.97 | 2 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.9029342421 | 673.083 | 5 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -1.6232744268 | 2007.84 | 2 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -1.6485031052 | 1225.59 | 2 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -1.8378265326 | 1861.62 | 2 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -1.8595258790 | 1195.1 | 2 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -1.7989763167 | 1783.48 | 2 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -1.8463163712 | 1280.35 | 2 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -1.9128842756 | 2030.8 | 6 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -1.8533059346 | 1420.62 | 2 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -1.8504073395 | 10044.4 | 3 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -1.8501276755 | 3869.99 | 5 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -1.9120365950 | 2577.22 | 5 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -1.8363501511 | 1482.98 | 5 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -1.8509753561 | 3025.78 | 5 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -1.8530240985 | 2957.95 | 5 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -1.8419283617 | 7580.22 | 2 | — |
| 19 | succeeded | -1.8542251603 | 3180.36 | 3 | — |