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H2O

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

H2O_ccpvdz_PAR_HEA_v4_tapered__sha256_b50cee1c91dc0410

VQE Gap

3.9921e-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
Non-Clifford gates12
T gates (FT estimate)144 (ε = 0.001)

T-gate count is the resource-relevant cost of a fault-tolerant implementation. It is an estimate from the non-Clifford rotations in the pre-transpilation circuit, assuming standard rotation synthesis to precision ε — not a compiled count for a specific device.

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-76.0269391502 Ha
|VQE − CASCI| gap3.992084e-4 Ha
CCSD(T) correlation-2.163485e-1 Ha

Optimizer / Run Config

AlgorithmCOBYLA
Multistart runs1
Max iterations500
Total func evals500
Num parameters12
Backenddefault.qubit

Provenance / Reproducibility

Entry IDH2O_ccpvdz_PAR_HEA_v4_tapered__sha256_b50cee1c91dc0410
Schema version4.0.0
Created (UTC)2026-09-07T12:10:25.275274+00:00
SHA-256 hashb50cee1c91dc04104d6ba7f39c0b0e9dc86d468911a3f50dd49b973ad765837d
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