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H2O

/parity/hea
Certified
Beats CCSD(T)
cc-pvdz

H2O_ccpvdz_PAR_HEA_v4_tapered__sha256_442576f5b48d4354

VQE Gap

2.9578e-4 Ha

CASCI ref

-76.027338 Ha

Qubits (tapered)

4

CCSD(T) corr.

-2.163e-1 Ha

Molecule / Problem

NameH2O
Basis setcc-pvdz
GeometryO 0.0 0.0 0.0; H 0.0 0.757 0.586; H 0.0 -0.757 0.586
Charge0
Spin0
Active electrons4
Active orbitals4
Orbital optimizationHF

Encoding / Circuit

Qubit mappingparity
Ansatz typehea
Ansatz reps (HEA)2
TaperingZ2 symmetry — 4 symmetries removed
Qubits (original)8
Qubits (tapered)4
Num parameters12
Circuit depth9
2Q gates6

Energy Results

HF energy-76.0267936450 Ha
MP2 energy-76.2307620086 Ha
CCSD energy-76.2400859051 Ha
CCSD(T) energy-76.2431421376 Ha
CASCI ground state-76.0273383586 Ha
VQE best energy-76.0270425833 Ha
|VQE − CASCI| gap2.957753e-4 Ha
CCSD(T) correlation-2.163485e-1 Ha

Optimizer / Run Config

AlgorithmCOBYLA
Multistart runs1
Max iterations500
Total func evals393
Num parameters12
Backenddefault.qubit

Provenance / Reproducibility

Entry IDH2O_ccpvdz_PAR_HEA_v4_tapered__sha256_442576f5b48d4354
Schema version4.0.0
Created (UTC)2026-07-15T13:21:02.548263+00:00
SHA-256 hash442576f5b48d43549d10896f439b6a8cd5cbcc63fccc6e7b869df282bb0fb7ef
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 H2O \

--mapping parity \

--ansatz-type hea \

--reps 2 \

--multistart 1 \

--max-iter 500 \

--out-dir releases/v4/db