Table 2 Wall time per VQE iteration in seconds and number of iterations to converge for different basis sets.

From: Towards practical and massively parallel quantum computing emulation for quantum chemistry

Basis set

STO-3G

cc-pVDZ

cc-pVTZ

aug-cc-pVTZ

Wall time per iteration

0.12

3.67

190.63

1564.52

Number of steps

18

303

459

677

  1. The data are collected from the geometry with the lowest energy of each basis set in Fig. 3.