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NH3

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

NH3_ccpvdz_PAR_HEA_v4_tapered__sha256_985901ca28fa7f97

VQE Gap

7.3407e-4 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 mappingparity
Ansatz typehea
Ansatz reps (HEA)2
TaperingZ2 symmetry — 3 symmetries removed
Qubits (original)8
Qubits (tapered)5
Num parameters15
Circuit depth10
2Q gates8
Non-Clifford gates15
T gates (FT estimate)180 (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-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-56.1971545181 Ha
|VQE − CASCI| gap7.340706e-4 Ha
CCSD(T) correlation-2.085498e-1 Ha

Optimizer / Run Config

AlgorithmCOBYLA
Multistart runs3
Max iterations500
Total func evals1,500
Num parameters15
Backenddefault.qubit

Provenance / Reproducibility

Entry IDNH3_ccpvdz_PAR_HEA_v4_tapered__sha256_985901ca28fa7f97
Schema version4.0.0
Created (UTC)2026-09-07T11:05:42.346415+00:00
SHA-256 hash985901ca28fa7f97e38e5254c5e1a92a09d8080270898cb4befcb16a72ec0de2
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 parity \

--ansatz-type hea \

--reps 2 \

--multistart 3 \

--max-iter 500 \

--out-dir releases/v4/db