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BeH2

/parity/uccsd tapered
Certified
Beats CCSD(T)
cc-pvdz

BeH2_ccpvdz_PAR_UCCSD_v4_tapered__sha256_f71541a4f8d3e964

VQE Gap

2.2225e-3 Ha

CASCI ref

-15.768411 Ha

Qubits (tapered)

3

CCSD(T) corr.

-6.896e-2 Ha

Molecule / Problem

NameBeH2
Basis setcc-pvdz
GeometryH 0.0 0.0 -1.30; Be 0.0 0.0 0.0; H 0.0 0.0 1.30
Charge0
Spin0
Active electrons4
Active orbitals4
Orbital optimizationHF

Encoding / Circuit

Qubit mappingparity
Ansatz typeuccsd_tapered
Ansatz reps (HEA)1
TaperingZ2 symmetry — 5 symmetries removed
Qubits (original)8
Qubits (tapered)3
Num parameters12
Circuit depth22
2Q gates8

Note on UCCSD circuit metrics

UCCSD uses exponential Pauli operators (exp(iθH)) that are symbolic before compilation. Circuit depth and 2-qubit gate counts are not reported here — they depend on the target hardware and transpiler.

Energy Results

HF energy-15.7664276149 Ha
MP2 energy-15.8183028207 Ha
CCSD energy-15.8349590260 Ha
CCSD(T) energy-15.8353910120 Ha
CASCI ground state-15.7684109880 Ha
VQE best energy-15.7661884701 Ha
|VQE − CASCI| gap2.222518e-3 Ha
CCSD(T) correlation-6.896340e-2 Ha

Optimizer / Run Config

AlgorithmCOBYLA
Multistart runs10
Max iterations500
Total func evals3,412
Num parameters12
Backenddefault.qubit

Provenance / Reproducibility

Entry IDBeH2_ccpvdz_PAR_UCCSD_v4_tapered__sha256_f71541a4f8d3e964
Schema version4.0.0
Created (UTC)2026-07-15T13:21:10.928451+00:00
SHA-256 hashf71541a4f8d3e9643e97ab6695da59dd99d619ef333dca6b4acd9977d9002926
Python3.11.15
PySCF2.6.2
PennyLane0.45.0
OpenFermion1.6.1
NumPy2.2.6
SciPy1.13.1

Reproduce this result

# Clone repo and install pinned environment

git clone https://github.com/qencode-benchmark/qencode-benchmark

cd qencode-benchmark

pip install -r requirements-v4.txt

# Run this entry

python scripts/generate_entry_v4.py \

--molecule BeH2 \

--mapping parity \

--ansatz-type uccsd \

--multistart 10 \

--max-iter 500 \

--out-dir releases/v4/db