Method
- Mapper
- PT
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 30
- Best energy (Ha)
- -1.8376
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_brussels
Final energy-1.8305461729hartree
Shots8192
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
- 8192
- Precision
- 0.0110485
- Resilience
- 0
- Submitted
- 2026-02-11T22:01:22+01:00
- Wall time (s)
- 209
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 | -1.8080248892 | 198.1 | 8 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.5687895140 | 10.4364 | 5 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.8704494706 | 9.53073 | 5 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -1.5987553614 | 9.84502 | 5 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -1.6250268403 | 9.3077 | 5 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -1.8268934014 | 9.44747 | 5 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -1.7954547056 | 9.64636 | 5 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -1.8155947046 | 9.34333 | 5 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -1.8304150125 | 10.3743 | 5 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -1.8273822703 | 9.22351 | 5 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -1.8334873115 | 9.62209 | 5 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -1.8229921056 | 9.5542 | 5 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -1.8266145350 | 9.22923 | 5 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -1.8302109494 | 9.06663 | 5 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -1.8312442638 | 9.52185 | 5 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -1.8376037687 | 9.42084 | 5 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -1.8325865152 | 9.79773 | 5 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -1.8304315412 | 9.67041 | 5 | — |
| 19 | succeeded | -1.8254760751 | 9.11555 | 5 | — |
| 20 | succeeded | -1.8330011408 | 9.41766 | 5 | — |
| 21 | succeeded | -1.8305461729 | 9.40184 | 5 | — |