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water_dimer

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

water_dimer_ccpvdz_JW_UCCSD_v4_tapered__sha256_6383f47170758daa

VQE Gap

1.9250e-6 Ha

CASCI ref

-152.062719 Ha

Qubits (tapered)

5

CCSD(T) corr.

-4.352e-1 Ha

Molecule / Problem

Namewater_dimer
Basis setcc-pvdz
GeometryO -1.551007 -0.114520 0.000000; H -1.934259 0.762503 0.000000; H -0.599677 0.040712 0.000000; O 1.350625 0.111469 0.000000; H 1.680398 -0.373741 -0.758561; H 1.680398 -0.373741 0.758561
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 parameters56
Circuit depth105
2Q gates20

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-152.0625362496 Ha
MP2 energy-152.4734315200 Ha
CCSD energy-152.4912439611 Ha
CCSD(T) energy-152.4977225163 Ha
CASCI ground state-152.0627193590 Ha
VQE best energy-152.0627174339 Ha
|VQE − CASCI| gap1.925048e-6 Ha
CCSD(T) correlation-4.351863e-1 Ha

Optimizer / Run Config

AlgorithmCOBYLA
Multistart runs1
Max iterations500
Total func evals500
Num parameters56
Backenddefault.qubit

Provenance / Reproducibility

Entry IDwater_dimer_ccpvdz_JW_UCCSD_v4_tapered__sha256_6383f47170758daa
Schema version4.0.0
Created (UTC)2026-07-16T13:11:13.953680+00:00
SHA-256 hash6383f47170758daafe44c0a9ef50e7b794da0e5151b51662ec645c7583986195
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 water_dimer \

--mapping jordan_wigner \

--ansatz-type uccsd \

--multistart 1 \

--max-iter 500 \

--out-dir releases/v4/db