Method
- Mapper
- PT
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 25
- Best energy (Ha)
- -1.86605
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_pittsburgh
Final energy-1.8616580458hartree
Shots1024
Runtime executionsession
Resilience1
MappingPT
Active space2e,2o
Execution
- Mode
- hardware
- Provider
- IBM Quantum
- Compute resource
- ibm_pittsburgh
- Resource type
- ibm quantum hardware
- Processor family
- Heron r3
- Processor model
- —
- Processor revision
- —
- Qubits
- —
- Connectivity
- —
- Runtime execution
- session
- Shots
- 1024
- Precision
- 0.03125
- Resilience
- 1
- Submitted
- 2025-11-20T12:45:07+01:00
- Wall time (s)
- 343
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
18 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 | -1.8348138358 | 2627.18 | 18 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.5391739887 | 18.6785 | 11 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.8346847252 | 20.0363 | 11 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -1.6210266947 | 19.3822 | 11 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -1.6696898287 | 18.8348 | 11 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -1.8660462950 | 18.9296 | 11 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -1.8134738719 | 17.5001 | 11 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -1.8430801727 | 18.2922 | 11 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -1.8489835813 | 18.9456 | 11 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -1.8547362387 | 18.3672 | 11 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -1.8513561716 | 18.9635 | 11 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -1.8459113548 | 18.5089 | 11 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -1.8485005104 | 17.8126 | 11 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -1.8488632758 | 18.787 | 11 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -1.8479729977 | 18.9647 | 11 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -1.8597365101 | 18.2832 | 11 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -1.8341596876 | 18.3648 | 11 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -1.8616580458 | 17.8974 | 11 | — |