Method
- Mapper
- PT
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 40
- Best energy (Ha)
- -1.87147
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_brussels
Final energy-1.8714736407hartree
Shots256
Runtime executionsession
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
- session
- Shots
- 256
- Precision
- 0.0625
- Resilience
- 0
- Submitted
- 2026-03-31T23:55:06+02:00
- Wall time (s)
- 91
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
20 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 | -1.8293366939 | 6.32654 | 1 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.5416507200 | 4.2905 | 1 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.9416522285 | 4.74723 | 1 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -1.3527881642 | 4.33207 | 1 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -1.8714736407 | 4.43865 | 1 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -1.5487305326 | 4.78534 | 1 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -1.8251134962 | 4.1722 | 1 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -1.7677573982 | 4.72345 | 1 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -1.8449028462 | 4.72235 | 1 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -1.7937471431 | 4.24539 | 1 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -1.8327534821 | 4.42868 | 1 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -1.8259720376 | 4.90023 | 1 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -1.8299264322 | 4.49038 | 1 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -1.7982738986 | 4.52707 | 1 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -1.7584263954 | 5.06291 | 1 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -1.8375577294 | 4.04447 | 1 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -1.8152275099 | 4.29667 | 1 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -1.7767935318 | 4.4434 | 1 | — |
| 19 | succeeded | -1.7957330290 | 4.54261 | 1 | — |
| 20 | succeeded | -1.7962967013 | 4.63086 | 1 | — |