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NH3

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

NH3_ccpvdz_JW_UCCSD_v4_tapered__sha256_bff85ae0c8311f46

VQE Gap

3.2445e-5 Ha

CASCI ref

-56.197889 Ha

Qubits (tapered)

5

CCSD(T) corr.

-2.085e-1 Ha

Molecule / Problem

NameNH3
Basis setcc-pvdz
GeometryN 0.0 0.0 0.1173; H 0.0 0.9289 -0.2737; H 0.8045 -0.4645 -0.2737; H -0.8045 -0.4645 -0.2737
Charge0
Spin0
Active electrons4
Active orbitals4
Orbital optimizationHF

Encoding / Circuit

Qubit mappingjordan-wigner
Ansatz typeuccsd_tapered
Ansatz reps (HEA)1
TaperingZ2 symmetry — 3 symmetries removed
Qubits (original)8
Qubits (tapered)5
Num parameters64
Circuit depth120
2Q gates24

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-56.1957314939 Ha
MP2 energy-56.3845132569 Ha
CCSD energy-56.4004649816 Ha
CCSD(T) energy-56.4042812742 Ha
CASCI ground state-56.1978885887 Ha
VQE best energy-56.1978561435 Ha
|VQE − CASCI| gap3.244515e-5 Ha
CCSD(T) correlation-2.085498e-1 Ha

Optimizer / Run Config

AlgorithmCOBYLA
Multistart runs1
Max iterations500
Total func evals500
Num parameters64
Backenddefault.qubit

Provenance / Reproducibility

Entry IDNH3_ccpvdz_JW_UCCSD_v4_tapered__sha256_bff85ae0c8311f46
Schema version4.0.0
Created (UTC)2026-07-15T13:22:23.704023+00:00
SHA-256 hashbff85ae0c8311f460149c33ceccd60b01fca644f3aea689401b6c3991bf463da
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 NH3 \

--mapping jordan_wigner \

--ansatz-type uccsd \

--multistart 1 \

--max-iter 500 \

--out-dir releases/v4/db