Method
- Mapper
- PT
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 30
- Best energy (Ha)
- -1.83464
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_brussels
Final energy-1.8140806159hartree
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_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
- single-job
- Shots
- 1024
- Precision
- 0.03125
- Resilience
- 0
- Submitted
- 2025-12-17T11:06:47+01:00
- Wall time (s)
- 1395
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)
- 0.0431944
- Signed error (Ha)
- 0.0431944
- Total QPU time (s)
- 34
- 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
18 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 | -1.8163353050 | 350.062 | 1 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.5701943674 | 5.32616 | 1 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.8811720392 | 4.85786 | 1 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -1.6099912017 | 52.0983 | 3 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -1.6040594737 | 7.11906 | 4 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -1.8069479623 | 7.00005 | 3 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -1.7805787701 | 7.88261 | 4 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -1.8346417570 | 51.316 | 3 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -1.8263752424 | 5.99479 | 2 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -1.8181065556 | 6.45855 | 2 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -1.8253822994 | 5.08298 | 1 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -1.8269389146 | 78.9919 | 3 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -1.8248880001 | 704.694 | 1 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -1.8244652459 | 87.8531 | 1 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -1.8090595611 | 4.83286 | 1 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -1.8130876729 | 5.06847 | 1 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -1.8227698848 | 5.17581 | 1 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -1.8140806159 | 5.71908 | 1 | — |