Method
- Mapper
- JW
- Ansatz
- UCC
- Optimizer
- COBYLA
- Maximum iterations
- 30
- Best energy (Ha)
- -0.968543
H2
H2 VQE accuracy-cost benchmark · hardware · ibm_brussels
Final energy-0.7879843339hartree
Shots1024
Runtime executionsession
Resilience1
MappingJW
Active space2e,2o
Jordan-Wigner mapping · Shots and precision · Resilience settings
Execution
- Mode
- hardware
- Provider
- IBM Quantum
- Compute resource
- ibm_brussels
- Resource type
- ibm quantum hardware
- Processor family
- Eagle r3
- Processor model
- Not recorded
- Processor revision
- Not recorded
- Qubits
- Not recorded
- Connectivity
- Not recorded
- Runtime execution
- session
- Shots
- 1024
- Precision
- 0.03125
- Resilience
- 1
- Submitted
- 2025-12-28T18:37:50+01:00
- Wall time (s)
- 333
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
- 96
- Two-qubit gates
- 48
- 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)
- 1.06929
- Signed error (Ha)
- 1.06929
- Total QPU time (s)
- 208
- 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
17 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 | -0.9685434032 | 25.3795 | 14 | — |
| 2 | succeeded | -0.8324154096 | 24.2883 | 15 | — |
| 3 | succeeded | -0.9357274408 | 22.7327 | 14 | — |
| 4 | succeeded | -0.8369820247 | 23.227 | 13 | — |
| 5 | succeeded | -0.8542856799 | 21.5211 | 14 | — |
| 6 | succeeded | -0.8322998907 | 19.4842 | 13 | — |
| 7 | succeeded | -0.8226042371 | 20.4084 | 12 | — |
| 8 | succeeded | -0.8261785888 | 20.3366 | 12 | — |
| 9 | succeeded | -0.8513689265 | 18.4266 | 12 | — |
| 10 | succeeded | -0.8277806432 | 17.9921 | 12 | — |
| 11 | succeeded | -0.8175190921 | 16.9818 | 11 | — |
| 12 | succeeded | -0.8196356454 | 16.9829 | 11 | — |
| 13 | succeeded | -0.8045430195 | 16.9259 | 11 | — |
| 14 | succeeded | -0.8150833451 | 17.2146 | 11 | — |
| 15 | succeeded | -0.7896530848 | 17.168 | 11 | — |
| 16 | succeeded | -0.8207479670 | 16.663 | 11 | — |
| 17 | succeeded | -0.7879843339 | 17.0287 | 11 | — |