A UIPO-Governed CS2 Precursor Protocol for Prospective Quantum Model-Adequacy Testing
Author: Kevin L. Brown
Research Status: Falsifiable hypothesis and preregistration-grade experimental protocol; no empirical result is claimed.
This paper presents a prospective experimental protocol for testing whether measurable quantum-state information persists longer than a preregistered family of conventional decoherence models predicts.
The proposed experiment uses a superconducting transmon qubit prepared in opposing equatorial quantum states. State distinguishability is reconstructed through single-qubit tomography and quantified using trace distance as the system evolves under native decoherence.
The central hypothesis, H-QRP-1, asks whether normalized quantum-state distinguishability exhibits a reproducible positive residual beyond three preregistered parametric comparator models:
- exponential decay,
- stretched-exponential decay, and
- damped-revival dynamics capable of representing conventional memory effects.
A Gaussian-process model is included separately as an empirical flexibility control to determine whether any residual structure remains statistically predictable even when the simpler parametric models fail.
The protocol is designed to minimize post-hoc interpretation. It specifies state preparation, readout calibration, T1 and T2∗ calibration, tomography reconstruction, dimensional normalization, comparator equations, parameter bounds, optimization procedures, randomization, validation rules, uncertainty propagation, serial-dependence controls, sample-size determination, practical-effect thresholds, and confirmatory decision criteria before evaluation data are collected.
The calibration program is divided prospectively into independent model-fitting and calibration-validation stages. Serial dependence across device days is handled through preregistered circular moving-block simulations using multiple dependence lengths. The final evaluation sample size is selected only if the complete decision procedure satisfies predefined false-positive and statistical-power requirements.
A positive result would not by itself demonstrate new quantum physics, validate the Unified Informational Physics Ontology (UIPO), confirm Triune Harmonic Dynamics (THD), or invalidate quantum mechanics. It would establish only that the registered conventional parametric model family systematically underpredicts measurable state distinguishability under the tested conditions.
The proposed escalation path requires independent hardware replication and stronger conventional characterization, including process-tensor methods, before any mechanism-specific interpretation is considered.
The broader practical question is whether quantum information currently treated as effectively lost during decoherence may contain additional measurable and potentially recoverable structure. If independently validated and shown to be usable, such residual persistence could eventually inform quantum-memory modeling, error-correction strategies, qubit control, and quantum-hardware design.
THD-specific testing is explicitly excluded from the active hypothesis until an author-approved mapping from the canonical THD structure to measurable quantum observables is prospectively defined and preregistered.
Keywords: Quantum Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Decoherence, Superconducting Qubits, Open Quantum Systems, Quantum State Tomography, Trace Distance, Non-Markovian Dynamics, Quantum Memory, Falsifiable Hypothesis, Preregistered Experiment, UIPO