qubithubvqe-h2-peruzzo

Reproduction of the first experimental VQE demonstration — finding the ground-state energy of H2 on a photonic quantum processor (Peruzzo et al., Nature Communications 2014)

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Framework: Qiskit
Qubits: 2
Depth: 3
Gate set: X, RY, CX
Licence: Not specified
Version: v1
Updated: 3 days ago
Last run: 3 months ago

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circuit.py · Qiskit · depth 3

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Status	Backend	Shots	Wall time
Completed	Simulator aer_simulator	1024	17.2 s
Completed	Simulator qiskit_aer	1024	16.5 s
Completed	Simulator qiskit_aer	1024	3.7 s
Completed	Simulator qiskit_aer	1024	3.6 s
Completed	Simulator qiskit_aer	1024	3.7 s

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@software{qubithub_vqeh2peruzzo_2026,
  author = {QubitHub Circuits},
  title = {VQE H2 (Peruzzo 2014)},
  year = {2026},
  version = {v1},
  url = {https://qubithub.co/qubithub/vqe-h2-peruzzo},
}

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