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