Method
- Mapper
- PT
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 30
- Best energy (Ha)
- -1.85592
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_kingston
Final energy-1.8363479790hartree
Shots1024
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_kingston
- Resource type
- ibm quantum hardware
- Processor family
- Heron r2
- Processor model
- Not recorded
- Processor revision
- Not recorded
- Qubits
- Not recorded
- Connectivity
- Not recorded
- Runtime execution
- single-job
- Shots
- 1024
- Precision
- 0.03125
- Resilience
- 0
- Submitted
- 2025-12-17T14:26:35+01:00
- Wall time (s)
- 164
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)
- 0.0209271
- Signed error (Ha)
- 0.0209271
- 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
20 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 | -1.8181000391 | 26.768 | 5 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.5723124827 | 7.47585 | 2 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.8331967673 | 7.4052 | 2 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -1.6118968539 | 6.60242 | 2 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -1.6437682309 | 7.27186 | 2 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -1.8386763853 | 6.43287 | 2 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -1.7970684924 | 7.43545 | 2 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -1.8212869868 | 8.6391 | 2 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -1.8512550201 | 6.64784 | 2 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -1.8427088414 | 6.92144 | 2 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -1.8221477003 | 7.33032 | 2 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -1.8313334407 | 7.09575 | 2 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -1.8313290963 | 7.9637 | 2 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -1.8156437476 | 7.12425 | 2 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -1.8559205214 | 7.36948 | 2 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -1.8249725782 | 6.5505 | 2 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -1.8346526178 | 6.83828 | 2 | — |
| 18 | succeeded | -1.8259611768 | 7.25182 | 2 | — |
| 19 | succeeded | -1.8310494324 | 7.36087 | 2 | — |
| 20 | succeeded | -1.8363479790 | 7.16205 | 2 | — |