Method
- Mapper
- PT
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 30
- Best energy (Ha)
- -1.71842
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_torino
Final energy-1.6896774852hartree
Shots4096
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_torino
- Resource type
- ibm quantum hardware
- Processor family
- Heron r1
- Processor model
- Not recorded
- Processor revision
- Not recorded
- Qubits
- Not recorded
- Connectivity
- Not recorded
- Runtime execution
- single-job
- Shots
- 4096
- Precision
- 0.015625
- Resilience
- 0
- Submitted
- 2025-10-01T14:13:28+02:00
- Wall time (s)
- 869
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)
- 0.167598
- Signed error (Ha)
- 0.167598
- Total QPU time (s)
- 75
- 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 | -1.6840694415 | 23.1675 | 8 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.6685741527 | 7.31337 | 4 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.9259050754 | 7.88709 | 4 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -1.5307590325 | 7.62254 | 4 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -1.5478784055 | 8.08195 | 4 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -1.7141084769 | 7.87231 | 3 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -1.6692334365 | 137.938 | 4 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -1.6887642330 | 42.0011 | 4 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -1.7104678897 | 106.708 | 4 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -1.7048371064 | 43.4788 | 4 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -1.7184189678 | 42.3337 | 3 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -1.6938985448 | 42.071 | 4 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -1.6967792537 | 43.0118 | 3 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -1.7002068346 | 79.2227 | 4 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -1.7066538702 | 101.112 | 4 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -1.7043227487 | 40.9856 | 3 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -1.6884948528 | 42.5782 | 4 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -1.7025200699 | 42.146 | 4 | — |
| 19 | succeeded | -1.6896774852 | 42.9165 | 3 | — |