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benzene

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

benzene_ccpvdz_JW_HEA_v4_casscf_tapered__sha256_6c49b2e94f84aa30

VQE Gap

8.7409e-3 Ha

CASCI ref

-230.787137 Ha

Qubits (tapered)

9

CCSD(T) corr.

-8.738e-1 Ha

Molecule / Problem

Namebenzene
Basis setcc-pvdz
GeometryC 1.3960 0.0000 0.0000; C 0.6980 1.2087 0.0000; C -0.6980 1.2087 0.0000; C -1.3960 0.0000 0.0000; C -0.6980 -1.2087 0.0000; C 0.6980 -1.2087 0.0000; H 2.4850 0.0000 0.0000; H 1.2425 2.1520 0.0000; H -1.2425 2.1520 0.0000; H -2.4850 0.0000 0.0000; H -1.2425 -2.1520 0.0000; H 1.2425 -2.1520 0.0000
Charge0
Spin0
Active electrons6
Active orbitals6
Orbital optimizationCASSCF

Encoding / Circuit

Qubit mappingjordan-wigner
Ansatz typehea
Ansatz reps (HEA)10
TaperingZ2 symmetry — 3 symmetries removed
Qubits (original)12
Qubits (tapered)9
Num parameters99
Circuit depth38
2Q gates80

Energy Results

HF energy-230.7218210541 Ha
MP2 energy-231.5209511757 Ha
CCSD energy-231.5593074056 Ha
CCSD(T) energy-231.5956287864 Ha
CASSCF energy-230.7871374810 Ha
CASCI ground state-230.7871374810 Ha
VQE best energy-230.7783965446 Ha
|VQE − CASCI| gap8.740936e-3 Ha
CCSD(T) correlation-8.738077e-1 Ha

Optimizer / Run Config

AlgorithmL-BFGS-B
Multistart runs1
Max iterations500
Total func evals103,679
Num parameters99
Backenddefault.qubit

Provenance / Reproducibility

Entry IDbenzene_ccpvdz_JW_HEA_v4_casscf_tapered__sha256_6c49b2e94f84aa30
Schema version4.0.0
Created (UTC)2026-07-15T13:52:09.772675+00:00
SHA-256 hash6c49b2e94f84aa30709d5dcee1b61eb5f1ca86c64ff6b164ce67d5b2d589bd60
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 benzene \

--mapping jordan_wigner \

--ansatz-type hea \

--reps 10 \

--orbital-opt casscf \

--multistart 1 \

--max-iter 500 \

--out-dir releases/v4/db