Benchmark

VQE Hydrogen Molecule Ground State

Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) · Chemistry · 4 qubits · Qiskit, PennyLane

Benchmark of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver algorithm for computing the ground state energy of the hydrogen molecule (H2). This is a standard benchmark for hybrid quantum-classical chemistry simulations, testing the interplay between quantum circuit evaluation and classical optimization.

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Benchmark of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver algorithm for computing the ground state energy of the hydrogen molecule (H2). This is a standard benchmark for hybrid quantum-classical chemistry simulations, testing the interplay between quantum circuit evaluation and classical optimization.

Key Metrics
Qubits required
4
Molecule
H2 (hydrogen)
Why It Matters

The 'hello world' of quantum chemistry — the simplest meaningful molecular simulation, used universally to validate new VQE implementations and hardware.

Hardware

Various (simulator and hardware)

Framework

Qiskit, PennyLane