Method
- Mapper
- PT
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 40
- Best energy (Ha)
- -1.84328
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_aachen
Final energy-1.8304022851hartree
Shots8192
Runtime executionsession
Resilience0
MappingPT
Active space2e,2o
Execution
- Mode
- hardware
- Provider
- IBM Quantum
- Compute resource
- ibm_aachen
- Resource type
- ibm quantum hardware
- Processor family
- Heron r2
- Processor model
- —
- Processor revision
- —
- Qubits
- —
- Connectivity
- —
- Runtime execution
- session
- Shots
- 8192
- Precision
- 0.0110485
- Resilience
- 0
- Submitted
- 2025-09-18T18:02:14+02:00
- Wall time (s)
- 219
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 | -1.8214428044 | 1195.86 | 13 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.5821879139 | 11.376 | 6 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.8878662245 | 10.4688 | 6 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -1.6148832513 | 9.87476 | 6 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -1.6435847693 | 9.76098 | 6 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -1.8394452067 | 10.0846 | 6 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -1.8059919120 | 11.0575 | 6 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -1.8266793261 | 10.5012 | 6 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -1.8355818557 | 9.88986 | 6 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -1.8411430116 | 9.88515 | 6 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -1.8329919432 | 10.4455 | 6 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -1.8397303011 | 10.3706 | 6 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -1.8340323000 | 10.7235 | 6 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -1.8362227750 | 11.4606 | 7 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -1.8326187750 | 10.6857 | 6 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -1.8432803708 | 11.2524 | 6 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -1.8335304151 | 10.6314 | 6 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -1.8321350479 | 11.5281 | 6 | — |
| 19 | succeeded | -1.8355867431 | 10.5743 | 6 | — |
| 20 | succeeded | -1.8304022851 | 10.4575 | 6 | — |