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C4H4

/jordan wigner/uccsd tapered
Certified
Beats CCSD(T)
cc-pvdz
CASSCF

C4H4_ccpvdz_JW_UCCSD_v4_casscf_tapered__sha256_a26c030f93eb230d

VQE Gap

7.9168e-3 Ha

CASCI ref

-153.673427 Ha

Qubits (tapered)

6

CCSD(T) corr.

-5.957e-1 Ha

Molecule / Problem

NameC4H4
Basis setcc-pvdz
GeometryC 0.673 0.783 0.0; C -0.673 0.783 0.0; C -0.673 -0.783 0.0; C 0.673 -0.783 0.0; H 1.377 1.602 0.0; H -1.377 1.602 0.0; H -1.377 -1.602 0.0; H 1.377 -1.602 0.0
Charge0
Spin0
Active electrons4
Active orbitals4
Orbital optimizationCASSCF

Encoding / Circuit

Qubit mappingjordan-wigner
Ansatz typeuccsd_tapered
Ansatz reps (HEA)1
TaperingZ2 symmetry — 2 symmetries removed
Qubits (original)8
Qubits (tapered)6
Num parameters152
Circuit depth286
2Q gates32

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.

This entry has 152 variational parameters — a large landscape requiring multistart optimisation. 1 independent restarts were run.

Energy Results

HF energy-153.6528244194 Ha
MP2 energy-154.1870717643 Ha
CCSD energy-154.2235763592 Ha
CCSD(T) energy-154.2485698632 Ha
CASSCF energy-153.6734265502 Ha
CASCI ground state-153.6734265503 Ha
VQE best energy-153.6655097925 Ha
|VQE − CASCI| gap7.916758e-3 Ha
CCSD(T) correlation-5.957454e-1 Ha

Optimizer / Run Config

AlgorithmCOBYLA
Multistart runs1
Max iterations500
Total func evals500
Num parameters152
Backenddefault.qubit

Provenance / Reproducibility

Entry IDC4H4_ccpvdz_JW_UCCSD_v4_casscf_tapered__sha256_a26c030f93eb230d
Schema version4.0.0
Created (UTC)2026-07-16T13:08:24.482985+00:00
SHA-256 hasha26c030f93eb230d3dc5b7bc3533a9a8030cc052265b1419bbe42ac854363818
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 C4H4 \

--mapping jordan_wigner \

--ansatz-type uccsd \

--orbital-opt casscf \

--multistart 1 \

--max-iter 500 \

--out-dir releases/v4/db