Method
- Mapper
- P
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 40
- Best energy (Ha)
- -1.64461
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_aachen
Final energy-1.6139271121hartree
Shots1024
Runtime executionsession
Resilience0
MappingP
Active space2e,2o
Parity mapping without qubit reduction · Shots and precision · Resilience settings
Execution
- Mode
- hardware
- Provider
- IBM Quantum
- Compute resource
- ibm_aachen
- Resource type
- quantum processor
- Processor family
- Heron
- Processor model
- ibm_aachen
- Processor revision
- 3
- Qubits
- 156
- Connectivity
- Not recorded
- Runtime execution
- session
- Shots
- 1024
- Precision
- 0.03125
- Resilience
- 0
- Submitted
- 2025-09-26T17:47:06+02:00
- Wall time (s)
- 121
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
- 4
- Physical qubits
- Not recorded
- Parameters
- Not recorded
- Depth
- 74
- Two-qubit gates
- 32
- 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)
- 0.243348
- Signed error (Ha)
- 0.243348
- Total QPU time (s)
- 43
- 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
19 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 | -1.6008815629 | 2921.26 | 7 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.6722600580 | 5.72731 | 2 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.9028905047 | 6.03644 | 2 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -1.4267956140 | 6.0779 | 2 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -1.4728331764 | 5.74252 | 2 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -1.6206199711 | 6.22098 | 2 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -1.6070859954 | 5.96913 | 2 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -1.5933395953 | 5.9163 | 2 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -1.5879532662 | 6.0139 | 2 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -1.6446080250 | 5.74934 | 2 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -1.6139850657 | 6.30757 | 2 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -1.6233514019 | 5.79702 | 2 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -1.6119472908 | 6.31728 | 2 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -1.6323364600 | 6.05947 | 2 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -1.6169056741 | 5.75256 | 2 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -1.6147680407 | 6.02412 | 2 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -1.6120746028 | 5.69469 | 2 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -1.6022149102 | 5.86141 | 2 | — |
| 19 | succeeded | -1.6139271121 | 5.83512 | 2 | — |