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LiH

/jordan wigner/hea
Certified
Beats CCSD(T)
cc-pvdz

LiH_ccpvdz_JW_HEA_v4_tapered__sha256_f044f66bd4bc8376

VQE Gap

9.5831e-5 Ha

CASCI ref

-7.983773 Ha

Qubits (tapered)

5

CCSD(T) corr.

-3.110e-2 Ha

Molecule / Problem

NameLiH
Basis setcc-pvdz
GeometryLi 0.0 0.0 0.0; H 0.0 0.0 1.6
Charge0
Spin0
Active electrons4
Active orbitals4
Orbital optimizationHF

Encoding / Circuit

Qubit mappingjordan-wigner
Ansatz typehea
Ansatz reps (HEA)2
TaperingZ2 symmetry — 3 symmetries removed
Qubits (original)8
Qubits (tapered)5
Num parameters15
Circuit depth10
2Q gates8

Energy Results

HF energy-7.9836422316 Ha
MP2 energy-8.0064478384 Ha
CCSD energy-8.0147376230 Ha
CCSD(T) energy-8.0147469479 Ha
CASCI ground state-7.9837729770 Ha
VQE best energy-7.9836771457 Ha
|VQE − CASCI| gap9.583124e-5 Ha
CCSD(T) correlation-3.110472e-2 Ha

Optimizer / Run Config

AlgorithmCOBYLA
Multistart runs1
Max iterations500
Total func evals500
Num parameters15
Backenddefault.qubit

Provenance / Reproducibility

Entry IDLiH_ccpvdz_JW_HEA_v4_tapered__sha256_f044f66bd4bc8376
Schema version4.0.0
Created (UTC)2026-07-15T13:21:28.966007+00:00
SHA-256 hashf044f66bd4bc8376202493a06963c877ffe95edc1cd0c0535c80727788ce8deb
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 LiH \

--mapping jordan_wigner \

--ansatz-type hea \

--reps 2 \

--multistart 1 \

--max-iter 500 \

--out-dir releases/v4/db