NIST study benchmarked a quantum algorithm on three aluminum clusters
NIST researchers’ 2025 BenchQC study examined a variational quantum algorithm on three small aluminum clusters: Al⁻, Al₂ and Al₃⁻.
Event / data period: 2025
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IllustrationThe researchers varied classical optimizers, circuit types, repetition counts, simulators, basis sets and noise models. Calculations used quantum simulators.
The findings are simulation-based benchmarking, not an experiment on quantum hardware. The paper reports that basis-set and circuit choices affected energy estimates.
Data
Reported indicators
Selected numerical indicators for the scope and period defined by the source.
- Aluminum cluster systems benchmarked
- 3 systems
- 2025-08-04 · Observed
- Benchmark parameter categories varied
- 6 categories
- 2025-08-04 · Observed
Methodology
Counts the three explicitly named Al⁻, Al₂ and Al₃⁻ systems and six method dimensions listed in the NIST abstract; calculations ran on simulators.
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