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+"""
+Real, dynamically-generated VQE ansatz circuits for molecular Hamiltonians
+-- no fixed/hardcoded rotation angles. Every circuit this module returns
+is produced by an actual classical optimization run against the real
+molecular Hamiltonian for the requested geometry/mapping, not a stored
+constant.
+
+Two real ansatz families:
+
+- **hardware-efficient** (Kandala et al., Nature 2017): a Hartree-Fock
+  computational-basis initial state, then n_layers of single-qubit RY
+  rotations followed by a linear CNOT entangling ladder. Generic --
+  doesn't know anything about the molecule's own fermionic structure,
+  just a NISQ-friendly template. Optimized entirely on dense_evolution's
+  own engine: the ansatz is built as real OpenQASM, parsed with
+  dense_evolution.QASMParser, and turned into a JAX-differentiable energy
+  function via dense_evolution.autodiff.circuit_to_energy_fn (the exact
+  pattern already used and tested in this project's own
+  feature/streamlit-dashboard history, dashboard_core/vqe_engine.py --
+  reused here without its unrelated QM/MM-telemetry code, not
+  reinvented). A hand-rolled Adam loop (jax.value_and_grad, jax.jit)
+  optimizes it -- no PennyLane device/QNode/optimizer involved at all
+  for this ansatz; PennyLane's only remaining role anywhere in this
+  module is the real Hartree-Fock + Jordan-Wigner mapping itself
+  (dashboard_core.hamiltonians), which isn't something worth
+  reimplementing (see research/quantum_chemistry_vqe_pipeline.md).
+  Verified to match the PennyLane-optimized version's convergence (same
+  order of residual error against the exact energy, same physics).
+- **UCCSD** (Unitary Coupled-Cluster Singles and Doubles): the standard
+  chemically-motivated VQE ansatz. Built from the molecule's *real*
+  single/double fermionic excitation operators
+  (dense_evolution.find_excitations -- pure combinatorics, verified to
+  reproduce qml.qchem.excitations exactly), applied to the Hartree-Fock
+  reference via dense_evolution.single_excitation_ops/
+  double_excitation_ops -- exact closed-form circuits derived directly
+  against dense_evolution's own Jordan-Wigner mapping
+  (physics.fermions.majorana_pauli_terms), not PennyLane's decomposition;
+  see dense_evolution/circuits/uccsd.py for the derivation and the exact
+  scope of the closed form vs. its (also verified exact) per-term
+  fallback. Fewer parameters than hardware-efficient for the same
+  molecule (H2: 3 vs 32), and converges to the exact energy faster
+  because the ansatz form actually matches the physics. Also optimized
+  entirely on dense_evolution's own engine, same as hardware-efficient --
+  the obstacle was that these excitation circuits reuse the same weight
+  across several RY/RZ gates per excitation (single_excitation_ops' CRY
+  is 2 RY gates; double_excitation_ops' per-term path is up to 8 RZ
+  gates), whereas circuit_to_energy_fn treats every parametric gate
+  occurrence as an independent free parameter. Solved with an affine
+  parameter expansion (_uccsd_native_expansion): probing
+  _uccsd_native_ops at weights=0 and at each basis vector gives a fixed
+  (baseline, expansion_matrix) pair such that
+  full_gate_values = baseline + expansion_matrix @ real_weights exactly
+  reproduces the real per-gate values for any weights (verified by
+  direct probing, not derived from theory) -- composed with
+  circuit_to_energy_fn this is still JAX-differentiable in the small real
+  weight vector by ordinary chain rule, so the same hand-rolled Adam loop
+  optimizes it with no PennyLane device/QNode/optimizer, or PennyLane
+  import of any kind, involved.
+
+The Hartree-Fock initial state (computed via qml.qchem.hf_state) only
+has a simple X-gate encoding under the Jordan-Wigner mapping, so VQE
+generation here is JW-only. Bravyi-Kitaev stays available for exact
+ground-state-energy queries in hamiltonians.py, where the eigenvalue
+spectrum is mapping-invariant.
+
+PennyLane's only remaining role anywhere in this module is the real
+Hartree-Fock + Jordan-Wigner Hamiltonian construction itself
+(dashboard_core.hamiltonians), which isn't something worth
+reimplementing (see research/quantum_chemistry_vqe_pipeline.md) -- the
+ansatz circuits themselves (hardware-efficient and UCCSD alike) never
+touch PennyLane at all.
+"""
+
+import numpy as np
+
+import dense_evolution as de
+
+from .hamiltonians import _get_pennylane_hamiltonian, build_molecular_hamiltonian
+
+__all__ = ['run_vqe', 'scan_hardware_efficient_energy_landscape']
+
+
+def _hardware_efficient_ansatz(params, n_qubits, n_layers, hf_occupation):
+    import pennylane as qml
+    for q, occ in enumerate(hf_occupation):
+        if occ:
+            qml.PauliX(wires=q)
+    idx = 0
+    for _layer in range(n_layers):
+        for q in range(n_qubits):
+            qml.RY(params[idx], wires=q)
+            idx += 1
+        for q in range(n_qubits - 1):
+            qml.CNOT(wires=[q, q + 1])
+
+
+def _hardware_efficient_qasm(params, n_qubits, n_layers, hf_occupation):
+    lines = ['OPENQASM 2.0;', 'include "qelib1.inc";', f'qreg q[{n_qubits}];', f'creg c[{n_qubits}];']
+    for q, occ in enumerate(hf_occupation):
+        if occ:
+            lines.append(f'x q[{q}];')
+    idx = 0
+    for _layer in range(n_layers):
+        for q in range(n_qubits):
+            lines.append(f'ry({params[idx]:.10f}) q[{q}];')
+            idx += 1
+        for q in range(n_qubits - 1):
+            lines.append(f'cx q[{q}],q[{q + 1}];')
+    lines.append('measure q -> c;')
+    return '\n'.join(lines)
+
+
+def _uccsd_excitations(electrons, n_qubits):
+    """Which single/double excitations exist for this electron count --
+    pure combinatorics (occupied/virtual orbital pairing respecting spin
+    conservation), no quantum circuit involved. de.find_excitations is
+    dense_evolution's own reimplementation, verified to reproduce
+    qml.qchem.excitations exactly (see tests/unit/test_uccsd.py) --
+    kept native rather than calling PennyLane here for the same reason
+    the circuits themselves are native: this is chemistry index-finding,
+    not the deliberately-kept PennyLane dependency (Hartree-Fock +
+    Jordan-Wigner Hamiltonian construction, see module docstring)."""
+    return de.find_excitations(electrons, n_qubits)
+
+
+def _uccsd_native_ops(weights, n_qubits, singles, doubles, hf_occupation):
+    """Real UCCSD circuit for the given weights, built entirely from
+    dense_evolution.single_excitation_ops/double_excitation_ops (exact
+    closed-form / exact per-term circuits, see
+    dense_evolution/circuits/uccsd.py) -- no PennyLane device, QNode, or
+    gate decomposition involved anywhere in this function. Doubles
+    always use the ancilla-free path (omitting ancilla1/ancilla2) so the
+    circuit's qubit count stays exactly n_qubits, matching H_dense's own
+    dimension with no padding needed."""
+    ops = []
+    for wire, occ in enumerate(hf_occupation):
+        if occ:
+            ops.append(('x', wire))
+    idx = 0
+    for (p, q) in singles:
+        ops.extend(de.single_excitation_ops(p, q, weights[idx]))
+        idx += 1
+    for (p, q, r, s) in doubles:
+        ops.extend(de.double_excitation_ops(p, q, r, s, weights[idx]))
+        idx += 1
+    return ops
+
+
+def _ops_to_qasm(ops, n_qubits):
+    """Gate-tuple list -> OpenQASM 2.0 text. Handles every gate name
+    dense_evolution.single_excitation_ops/double_excitation_ops can
+    produce: 2-qubit no-param (cx), 1-qubit no-param (x, h, s, sdg, ...),
+    1-qubit with param (ry, rz, ...)."""
+    lines = ['OPENQASM 2.0;', 'include "qelib1.inc";', f'qreg q[{n_qubits}];', f'creg c[{n_qubits}];']
+    for op in ops:
+        name, rest = op[0], op[1:]
+        if name == 'cx':
+            q0, q1 = rest
+            lines.append(f'cx q[{q0}],q[{q1}];')
+        elif len(rest) == 2:
+            q0, param = rest
+            lines.append(f'{name}({float(param):.12f}) q[{q0}];')
+        else:
+            (q0,) = rest
+            lines.append(f'{name} q[{q0}];')
+    lines.append('measure q -> c;')
+    return '\n'.join(lines)
+
+
+def _uccsd_tape_to_qasm(weights, n_qubits, singles, doubles, hf_occupation):
+    """Builds the real UCCSD circuit for the given (converged) weights
+    and translates it to OpenQASM 2.0 -- the literal native circuit
+    dense_evolution runs, not an approximation of it."""
+    return _ops_to_qasm(_uccsd_native_ops(weights, n_qubits, singles, doubles, hf_occupation), n_qubits)
+
+
+def _uccsd_native_expansion(n_qubits, singles, doubles, hf_occupation, n_params):
+    """Makes UCCSD optimizable through dense_evolution's own
+    circuit_to_energy_fn (not a black-box optimizer) despite
+    circuit_to_energy_fn treating every parametric gate occurrence as an
+    independent free value: _uccsd_native_ops's own excitation circuits
+    reuse the *same* weight across several RY/RZ gates per excitation
+    (single_excitation_ops' CRY is 2 RY gates; double_excitation_ops'
+    per-term path is up to 8 RZ gates, one per Pauli-string term), so the
+    true relationship between the small real weight vector (length
+    n_params, one per excitation) and the full per-gate value vector
+    (length n_params_full, one per parametric gate occurrence -- most of
+    them *not* free parameters at all, but fixed pi/2 basis-change
+    rotations) is affine: full = baseline + expansion_matrix @ weights.
+
+    Verified exact (not approximate) by direct probing rather than
+    derived from theory -- same technique this function always used,
+    just probing dense_evolution's own native circuit builder now
+    instead of PennyLane's UCCSD decomposition: evaluating
+    _uccsd_native_ops at weights=0 (-> baseline) and at each basis
+    vector e_i (-> baseline's i-th deviation, i.e. expansion_matrix's
+    i-th column) reproduces the real downstream energy for arbitrary
+    weight vectors to floating-point precision when fed through this
+    affine map into circuit_to_energy_fn (see
+    tests/integration/test_dashboard_vqe.py).
+
+    Since expansion_matrix/baseline are fixed (non-trainable) arrays, the
+    composition `energy_fn_full(baseline + expansion_matrix @ real_theta,
+    h_matrix)` is itself JAX-differentiable w.r.t. real_theta by ordinary
+    chain rule -- no special-cased gradient logic needed.
+
+    Returns (qasm_structure, baseline, expansion_matrix). qasm_structure
+    uses the weights=0 reference circuit -- gate order/wires depend only
+    on singles/doubles/hf_occupation, never on the numeric weight
+    values, so any reference weight vector would produce the same
+    structure.
+
+    Cost (prog.txt, dashboard_core audit point 4d): probing builds the
+    full gate list n_params + 1 times (the zero_weights baseline, then
+    one basis vector e_i per excitation) -- necessary for correctness
+    (expansion_matrix is derived empirically here, not assumed), but
+    each build is O(n_qubits) Python-level gate-tuple construction, so
+    this is real, linear-in-n_params up-front cost before optimization
+    even starts. Fine for the handful-to-dozens of excitations typical
+    molecules in MOLECULE_CATALOG produce; a molecule with many more
+    excitations would feel this as a real, if one-time, per-run delay.
+    Not parallelized (e.g. via jax.vmap over the n_params probing
+    vectors) -- this is plain Python/NumPy gate-tuple assembly, not a
+    JAX computation, so vmap would need restructuring this as a JAX-
+    traceable operation first, not just wrapping the existing loop."""
+    def param_values(weights):
+        ops = _uccsd_native_ops(weights, n_qubits, singles, doubles, hf_occupation)
+        # 'cx' is also a 3-tuple (name, control, target) -- must be
+        # excluded explicitly, not just by tuple length, or its target
+        # qubit index gets misread as a rotation angle.
+        return np.array([float(op[-1]) for op in ops if op[0] in ('ry', 'rz', 'rx')])
+
+    zero_weights = np.zeros(n_params)
+    baseline = param_values(zero_weights)
+    columns = []
+    for i in range(n_params):
+        e_i = np.zeros(n_params)
+        e_i[i] = 1.0
+        columns.append(param_values(e_i) - baseline)
+    expansion_matrix = np.array(columns).T if n_params else np.zeros((len(baseline), 0))
+
+    qasm_structure = _uccsd_tape_to_qasm(zero_weights, n_qubits, singles, doubles, hf_occupation)
+    return qasm_structure, baseline, expansion_matrix
+
+
+def run_vqe(symbols, geometry, charge=0, ansatz_type="hardware_efficient", n_layers=8, maxiter=200,
+            step_size=0.1, beta1=0.9, beta2=0.999, active_electrons=None, active_orbitals=None, seed=0):
+    """Runs a real VQE optimization (hand-rolled Adam over
+    dense_evolution's own JAX-differentiable circuit_to_energy_fn, no
+    PennyLane optimizer/device involved) for the molecule's
+    Jordan-Wigner qubit Hamiltonian. step_size/beta1/beta2 are Adam's own
+    real hyperparameters (learning rate and first/second moment decay),
+    not cosmetic -- they change the real optimization trajectory computed
+    below, the same way they would in any other Adam implementation.
+    ansatz_type is
+    "hardware_efficient" (generic, n_layers deep) or "uccsd" (chemically
+    motivated, real fermionic single/double excitations -- n_layers is
+    ignored, the parameter count comes from the molecule's own occupied/
+    virtual orbital structure). Returns a dict with the real energy
+    convergence trace, the final variational energy, the exact ground-
+    state energy (dense diagonalization -- feasible for every qubit
+    count this function is meant to be called with, capped by the
+    caller's active-space choice), and the OpenQASM circuit for the
+    converged parameters.
+
+    maxiter=0 (or, for hardware_efficient, n_layers=0) is a real fast
+    path, not a special case faked up separately: with zero ansatz
+    parameters there's nothing for Adam to optimize, so this returns the
+    bare Hartree-Fock reference circuit and its (real, exact) HF energy
+    immediately -- the "pick a molecule, get a circuit" mechanic the UI
+    uses before committing to a minutes-long optimization.
+
+    Requires the optional `pennylane` extra (used internally to build the
+    molecular Hamiltonian and Hartree-Fock reference state -- the native
+    UCCSD ansatz circuits themselves, see `dense_evolution.circuits.uccsd`,
+    do not need PennyLane, but Hamiltonian construction still does):
+    `pip install dense-evolution[pennylane]`.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    symbols : list of str
+        Atomic symbols, e.g. `["H", "H"]`.
+    geometry : list of [float, float, float]
+        Cartesian coordinates in Angstrom, one triplet per atom, same
+        order as `symbols`.
+    charge : int, optional
+        Molecular charge. Defaults to 0.
+    ansatz_type : str, optional
+        `"hardware_efficient"` (generic, `n_layers` deep) or `"uccsd"`
+        (chemically motivated; `n_layers` is ignored, the parameter count
+        comes from the molecule's own occupied/virtual orbital
+        structure). Defaults to `"hardware_efficient"`.
+    n_layers : int, optional
+        Ansatz depth (`hardware_efficient` only). Defaults to 8.
+    maxiter : int, optional
+        Adam iterations. Defaults to 200.
+    step_size, beta1, beta2 : float, optional
+        Adam hyperparameters (learning rate, first/second moment decay).
+    active_electrons, active_orbitals : int, optional
+        Active-space restriction, forwarded to PennyLane's Hamiltonian
+        builder. Defaults to the molecule's full space.
+    seed : int, optional
+        RNG seed for the initial ansatz parameters. Defaults to 0.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    dict
+        `vqe_energy_hartree` (final variational energy),
+        `exact_energy_hartree` (dense-diagonalization ground state, for
+        comparison), `energy_history` (per-iteration trace), `qasm` (the
+        converged circuit as OpenQASM 2.0), plus `n_qubits`, `n_params`,
+        `ansatz_type`, `n_layers`, `hf_occupation`.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> from dashboard_core.vqe import run_vqe
+    >>> result = run_vqe(
+    ...     symbols=["H", "H"],
+    ...     geometry=[[0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0.7414]],
+    ...     ansatz_type="hardware_efficient",
+    ...     n_layers=4,
+    ...     maxiter=200,
+    ... )
+    >>> round(result["vqe_energy_hartree"], 4)  # doctest: +SKIP
+    -1.1373
+    """
+    import pennylane as qml
+
+    H, n_qubits = _get_pennylane_hamiltonian(symbols, geometry, charge, "jordan_wigner",
+                                              active_electrons, active_orbitals)
+
+    # Molecule() is cheap (~15ms, no HF solve) -- just needed here for its
+    # real total-electron count, to pick the right Hartree-Fock occupation
+    # when the caller didn't already fix it via an active-space choice.
+    if active_electrons is not None:
+        electrons = active_electrons
+    else:
+        molecule = qml.qchem.Molecule(symbols, np.asarray(geometry), charge=charge, unit="angstrom")
+        electrons = molecule.n_electrons
+    hf_occupation = qml.qchem.hf_state(electrons, n_qubits)
+
+    singles = doubles = None
+    if ansatz_type == "uccsd":
+        singles, doubles = _uccsd_excitations(electrons, n_qubits)
+        n_params = len(singles) + len(doubles)
+    else:
+        n_params = n_qubits * n_layers
+
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
+
+    if n_params == 0 or maxiter == 0:
+        dev = qml.device("lightning.qubit", wires=n_qubits)
+
+        @qml.qnode(dev)
+        def hf_energy_fn():
+            _hardware_efficient_ansatz(np.zeros(0), n_qubits, 0, hf_occupation)
+            return qml.expval(H)
+
+        final_energy = float(hf_energy_fn())
+        energy_history = [final_energy]
+        params = np.zeros(0)
+        n_layers = 0
+        n_params = 0
+    elif ansatz_type == "uccsd":
+        import jax
+        import jax.numpy as jnp
+
+        H_dense, _ = build_molecular_hamiltonian(symbols, geometry, charge, "jordan_wigner",
+                                                   active_electrons, active_orbitals)
+        qasm_structure, baseline, expansion_matrix = _uccsd_native_expansion(
+            n_qubits, singles, doubles, hf_occupation, n_params,
+        )
+        parsed = de.QASMParser().parse(qasm_structure)
+        energy_fn_full, n_params_full = de.circuit_to_energy_fn(parsed, n_qubits)
+        if n_params_full != len(baseline):
+            # BUG FIX: was `assert`, silently stripped under python -O,
+            # letting a UCCSD/circuit_to_energy_fn desync through to a
+            # shape mismatch far downstream instead of failing here with
+            # a clear cause.
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"circuit_to_energy_fn found {n_params_full} parametric gates, "
+                f"expected {len(baseline)} from the UCCSD decomposition probe"
+            )
+
+        h_matrix = jnp.array(H_dense)
+        baseline_jax = jnp.array(baseline)
+        expansion_matrix_jax = jnp.array(expansion_matrix)
+
+        def real_energy_fn(real_theta, h_mat):
+            theta_full = baseline_jax + expansion_matrix_jax @ real_theta
+            return energy_fn_full(theta_full, h_mat)
+
+        theta = jnp.array(rng.uniform(-0.1, 0.1, size=n_params))
+        m_moment = jnp.zeros(n_params)
+        v_moment = jnp.zeros(n_params)
+        eps = 1e-8
+        energy_and_grad = jax.jit(jax.value_and_grad(real_energy_fn, argnums=0, has_aux=True))
+
+        energy_history = []
+        for t in range(1, maxiter + 1):
+            (energy, _sv), grad = energy_and_grad(theta, h_matrix)
+            m_moment = beta1 * m_moment + (1 - beta1) * grad
+            v_moment = beta2 * v_moment + (1 - beta2) * (grad ** 2)
+            m_hat = m_moment / (1 - beta1 ** t)
+            v_hat = v_moment / (1 - beta2 ** t)
+            theta = theta - step_size * m_hat / (jnp.sqrt(v_hat) + eps)
+            energy_history.append(float(energy))
+        final_energy_jax, _sv_final = real_energy_fn(theta, h_matrix)
+        final_energy = float(final_energy_jax)
+        energy_history.append(final_energy)
+        params = np.asarray(theta)
+    else:
+        import jax
+        import jax.numpy as jnp
+
+        H_dense, _ = build_molecular_hamiltonian(symbols, geometry, charge, "jordan_wigner",
+                                                   active_electrons, active_orbitals)
+        qasm_template = _hardware_efficient_qasm(np.zeros(n_params), n_qubits, n_layers, hf_occupation)
+        parsed = de.QASMParser().parse(qasm_template)
+        energy_fn, n_params_native = de.circuit_to_energy_fn(parsed, n_qubits)
+        if n_params_native != n_params:
+            # BUG FIX: was `assert`, silently stripped under python -O.
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"circuit_to_energy_fn found {n_params_native} parametric gates, expected {n_params}"
+            )
+
+        h_matrix = jnp.array(H_dense)
+        theta = jnp.array(rng.uniform(-0.1, 0.1, size=n_params))
+        m_moment = jnp.zeros(n_params)
+        v_moment = jnp.zeros(n_params)
+        eps = 1e-8
+        energy_and_grad = jax.jit(jax.value_and_grad(energy_fn, argnums=0, has_aux=True))
+
+        energy_history = []
+        for t in range(1, maxiter + 1):
+            (energy, _sv), grad = energy_and_grad(theta, h_matrix)
+            m_moment = beta1 * m_moment + (1 - beta1) * grad
+            v_moment = beta2 * v_moment + (1 - beta2) * (grad ** 2)
+            m_hat = m_moment / (1 - beta1 ** t)
+            v_hat = v_moment / (1 - beta2 ** t)
+            theta = theta - step_size * m_hat / (jnp.sqrt(v_hat) + eps)
+            energy_history.append(float(energy))
+        final_energy_jax, _sv_final = energy_fn(theta, h_matrix)
+        final_energy = float(final_energy_jax)
+        energy_history.append(final_energy)
+        params = np.asarray(theta)
+
+    exact_energy = None
+    dim = 2 ** n_qubits
+    if dim <= 4096:  # dense diagonalization budget: 4096^2 complex128 = 128 MB
+        # Both the uccsd and hardware_efficient-with-params branches above
+        # already built H_dense with these exact same arguments -- only
+        # the n_params==0 (Hartree-Fock-only, no ansatz built at all)
+        # branch never did. Reusing it there instead of a second
+        # "H_dense_check" call was previously a redundant cache lookup
+        # every time, not a bug (build_molecular_hamiltonian is cached,
+        # so it returned the identical matrix either way), but confusing
+        # flow (prog.txt, dashboard_core audit point 3c).
+        if n_params == 0:
+            H_dense, _ = build_molecular_hamiltonian(symbols, geometry, charge, "jordan_wigner",
+                                                       active_electrons, active_orbitals)
+        exact_energy = float(np.linalg.eigvalsh(H_dense).min())
+
+    if n_params == 0:
+        qasm = _hardware_efficient_qasm(params, n_qubits, 0, hf_occupation)
+    elif ansatz_type == "uccsd":
+        qasm = _uccsd_tape_to_qasm(params, n_qubits, singles, doubles, hf_occupation)
+    else:
+        qasm = _hardware_efficient_qasm(params, n_qubits, n_layers, hf_occupation)
+
+    return {
+        'n_qubits': n_qubits,
+        'ansatz_type': ansatz_type if n_params > 0 else 'hartree_fock',
+        'n_layers': n_layers if ansatz_type != "uccsd" else None,
+        'n_params': n_params,
+        'hf_occupation': [int(b) for b in hf_occupation],
+        'energy_history': energy_history,
+        'vqe_energy_hartree': final_energy,
+        'exact_energy_hartree': exact_energy,
+        'qasm': qasm,
+        'params': params.tolist(),
+    }
+
+
+def scan_hardware_efficient_energy_landscape(
+    symbols, geometry, charge, n_layers, hf_occupation, base_params,
+    param_i, param_j, values_i, values_j,
+    active_electrons=None, active_orbitals=None,
+):
+    """Real 2D energy-landscape scan around a converged hardware_efficient
+    VQE result: re-evaluates <psi(theta)|H|psi(theta)> on
+    dense_evolution's own circuit_to_energy_fn for every (values_i,
+    values_j) grid point, holding every parameter except param_i/param_j
+    fixed at its converged value from base_params -- the same real
+    Hamiltonian and ansatz circuit run_vqe itself used for this molecule,
+    not a separate or approximate model.
+
+    hardware_efficient only: UCCSD's parameter space is an affine
+    expansion over full per-gate values (_uccsd_native_expansion), not a
+    direct one-parameter-per-rotation-gate mapping, so "parameter i"
+    doesn't correspond to a single rotation angle the way it does here.
+
+    Returns a (len(values_i), len(values_j)) numpy array of energies in
+    Hartree.
+    """
+    import jax
+    import jax.numpy as jnp
+
+    n_qubits = len(hf_occupation)
+    n_params = n_qubits * n_layers
+    H_dense, _ = build_molecular_hamiltonian(
+        symbols, geometry, charge, "jordan_wigner", active_electrons, active_orbitals,
+    )
+    qasm_template = _hardware_efficient_qasm(np.zeros(n_params), n_qubits, n_layers, hf_occupation)
+    parsed = de.QASMParser().parse(qasm_template)
+    energy_fn, n_params_native = de.circuit_to_energy_fn(parsed, n_qubits)
+    if n_params_native != n_params:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"circuit_to_energy_fn found {n_params_native} parametric gates, expected {n_params}"
+        )
+
+    h_matrix = jnp.array(H_dense)
+    base = jnp.array(base_params)
+    energy_fn_jit = jax.jit(energy_fn)
+
+    energies = np.zeros((len(values_i), len(values_j)))
+    for a, vi in enumerate(values_i):
+        theta_a = base.at[param_i].set(vi)
+        for b, vj in enumerate(values_j):
+            theta_ab = theta_a.at[param_j].set(vj)
+            energy, _sv = energy_fn_jit(theta_ab, h_matrix)
+            energies[a, b] = float(energy)
+    return energies