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HF

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

HF_ccpvdz_BK_UCCSD_v4_tapered__sha256_42ad3163dd5bcf87

VQE Gap

1.4424e-11 Ha

CASCI ref

-100.019483 Ha

Qubits (tapered)

1

CCSD(T) corr.

-2.107e-1 Ha

Molecule / Problem

NameHF
Basis setcc-pvdz
GeometryH 0.0 0.0 0.0; F 0.0 0.0 0.917
Charge0
Spin0
Active electrons2
Active orbitals2
Orbital optimizationHF

Encoding / Circuit

Qubit mappingbravyi-kitaev
Ansatz typeuccsd_tapered
Ansatz reps (HEA)1
TaperingZ2 symmetry — 3 symmetries removed
Qubits (original)4
Qubits (tapered)1
Num parameters1
Circuit depth2
2Q gates0

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-100.0194112692 Ha
MP2 energy-100.2231931799 Ha
CCSD energy-100.2281549564 Ha
CCSD(T) energy-100.2300913457 Ha
CASCI ground state-100.0194827962 Ha
VQE best energy-100.0194827962 Ha
|VQE − CASCI| gap1.442402e-11 Ha
CCSD(T) correlation-2.106801e-1 Ha

Optimizer / Run Config

AlgorithmCOBYLA
Multistart runs10
Max iterations500
Total func evals220
Num parameters1
Backenddefault.qubit

Provenance / Reproducibility

Entry IDHF_ccpvdz_BK_UCCSD_v4_tapered__sha256_42ad3163dd5bcf87
Schema version4.0.0
Created (UTC)2026-07-15T13:22:32.206794+00:00
SHA-256 hash42ad3163dd5bcf87c0fb1fb21662345b4dbb8cf015007d0cdab5f190f920a2e0
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 HF \

--mapping bravyi_kitaev \

--ansatz-type uccsd \

--multistart 10 \

--max-iter 500 \

--out-dir releases/v4/db