Method
- Mapper
- PT
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 30
- Best energy (Ha)
- -1.88923
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_brussels
Final energy-1.8485625482hartree
Shots1024
Runtime executionsession
Resilience2
MappingPT
Active space2e,2o
Parity mapping with full symmetry tapering · 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
- 2
- Submitted
- 2025-11-24T14:10:53+01:00
- Wall time (s)
- 367
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)
- 0.00871248
- Signed error (Ha)
- 0.00871248
- Total QPU time (s)
- 238
- 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
21 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 | -1.8408179267 | 21.8394 | 13 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.6212604391 | 17.3124 | 11 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.8834818542 | 17.3411 | 11 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -1.6278429175 | 17.2576 | 11 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -1.6865016403 | 16.5492 | 11 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -1.8596511909 | 16.2114 | 11 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -1.8266859814 | 16.6351 | 11 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -1.8561204741 | 16.7482 | 11 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -1.8605436905 | 16.9421 | 11 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -1.8819612429 | 17.6549 | 12 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -1.8224473310 | 16.6697 | 11 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -1.8424793804 | 16.585 | 11 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -1.8334187588 | 16.4689 | 11 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -1.8168770400 | 17.697 | 11 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -1.8406991316 | 16.6405 | 11 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -1.8413864735 | 16.6317 | 11 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -1.8374478015 | 16.7257 | 11 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -1.8892307018 | 16.7987 | 11 | — |
| 19 | succeeded | -1.8215629231 | 17.7239 | 11 | — |
| 20 | succeeded | -1.8543710373 | 20.2328 | 13 | — |
| 21 | succeeded | -1.8485625482 | 20.4107 | 13 | — |