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SCPN/FIM Hamiltonian Paper Submission Checklist

Date: 2026-05-06

This checklist freezes the submission boundary for the SCPN/FIM Hamiltonian paper. It indexes committed artefacts only and preserves the negative hardware falsification result as a scientific boundary, not as a failed result to hide.

Submission Scope

Supported:

  • Definition and exact small-system characterisation of H_FIM(lambda) = -lambda M^2 / n.
  • Magnetisation-sector energy shifts and ideal-sector conservation checks.
  • Exact spectra, adjacent-gap diagnostics, low-energy entanglement diagnostics, sector-survival predictions, and n=4 FIM VQE scoring.
  • IBM Heron r2 pilot and repeated follow-up on ibm_kingston.
  • Repeated follow-up falsification: in the tested digital Trotter circuit family, lambda = 4 increased leakage and reduced exact-state retention relative to lambda = 0.
  • Full 16-state readout-matrix mitigation only for the repeated dataset where the complete calibration basis exists.

Not supported:

  • FIM improves hardware coherence in this implementation.
  • Backend-general FIM behaviour.
  • Hardware many-body localisation.
  • Broad quantum advantage.
  • Strict many-body localisation from small-n adjacent-gap diagnostics.
  • A claim that the negative result rules out all native, analogue, pulse-level, or adaptive FIM implementations.

Required Claim Wording

Use the conservative claim:

The collective FIM term is mathematically well defined and reshapes the exact small-system Kuramoto-XY spectrum, but the tested IBM Heron r2 digital Trotter implementation falsifies the simple hardware-protection hypothesis: lambda = 4 increased leakage relative to lambda = 0.

Avoid the stronger claim:

The FIM term protects quantum coherence on hardware.

The abstract, conclusion, and hardware section must make the negative falsification visible. It is part of the contribution.

Committed Artefact Index

Item Path
Claim boundary docs/campaigns/scpn_fim_claim_boundary_2026-05-05.md
Repeated follow-up analysis note docs/campaigns/scpn_fim_repeated_followup_analysis_2026-05-05.md
Repeated follow-up protocol docs/campaigns/scpn_fim_repeated_followup_protocol_2026-05-05.md
Validation protocol docs/campaigns/scpn_fim_validation_protocol_2026-05-05.md
Paper source paper/submissions/submission_004_scpn_fim_hamiltonian/scpn_fim_hamiltonian.tex
Paper PDF paper/submissions/submission_004_scpn_fim_hamiltonian/scpn_fim_hamiltonian.pdf
Exact spectra summary data/scpn_fim_hamiltonian/fim_spectrum_summary_2026-05-05.json
Level-spacing summary data/scpn_fim_hamiltonian/fim_level_spacing_summary_2026-05-05.json
Entanglement summary data/scpn_fim_hamiltonian/fim_entanglement_summary_2026-05-05.json
Sector-survival prediction data/scpn_fim_hamiltonian/fim_sector_survival_prediction_2026-05-05.json
FIM VQE summary data/scpn_fim_hamiltonian/fim_vqe_ground_state_summary_2026-05-05.json
Pilot raw counts data/scpn_fim_hamiltonian/fim_ibm_pilot_raw_counts_2026-05-05_ibm-run-4c0bd60c3fc2c532.json
Repeated raw counts data/scpn_fim_hamiltonian/fim_ibm_repeated_followup_raw_counts_2026-05-05_ibm-run-cf4835290f607387.json
Repeated analysis data/scpn_fim_hamiltonian/fim_ibm_repeated_followup_analysis_2026-05-05_ibm-run-cf4835290f607387.json
Full-basis readout matrix mitigation data/scpn_fim_hamiltonian/fim_readout_matrix_mitigation_summary_2026-05-05_ibm-run-cf4835290f607387.json

Generator Scripts

Artefact group Generator
Exact spectra scripts/analyse_fim_spectrum.py
Level spacing scripts/analyse_fim_level_spacing.py
Entanglement scripts/analyse_fim_entanglement.py
Sector survival scripts/analyse_fim_sector_survival.py
FIM VQE scripts/benchmark_fim_vqe_ground_state.py
Pilot analysis scripts/analyse_fim_ibm_pilot.py
Repeated follow-up analysis scripts/analyse_fim_ibm_repeated_followup.py
Full-basis readout mitigation scripts/analyse_fim_readout_matrix_mitigation.py

IBM Job IDs That Must Match the Paper

Block Backend Job ID
FIM pilot ibm_kingston ibm-run-4c0bd60c3fc2c532
FIM repeated follow-up ibm_kingston ibm-run-cf4835290f607387

Do not allow line-break artefacts, punctuation changes, or invented job IDs.

Reproducibility Gate

Preferred offline gate:

scpn-bench fim-all

Optional full portfolio gate:

scpn-bench all --include-readout

These commands analyse committed artefacts only. They must not submit IBM jobs.

Final Manual Pre-Upload Gate

Before arXiv or journal upload:

  • Rebuild paper/submissions/submission_004_scpn_fim_hamiltonian/scpn_fim_hamiltonian.pdf from paper/submissions/submission_004_scpn_fim_hamiltonian/scpn_fim_hamiltonian.tex.
  • Verify every table value against the committed JSON/CSV artefact cited in the paper.
  • Verify the paper states H_FIM(lambda) = -lambda M^2 / n and the M^2 = n I + 2 sum_{i<j} Z_i Z_j hardware-burden implication clearly.
  • Verify the repeated IBM result is described as a negative/falsifying result.
  • Verify the full-basis readout mitigation claim is restricted to the repeated dataset with the complete 16-state calibration basis.
  • Verify no hardware-protection, backend-general, or quantum-advantage claim appears.
  • Verify the GitHub URL is https://github.com/anulum/scpn-quantum-control.
  • Verify AI disclosure, if required by the venue, is minimal and venue compliant.

QPU Boundary

No additional QPU time is required for this submission package. Native analogue FIM, pulse-level FIM, adaptive-lambda feedback, and multi-backend FIM replication remain follow-up experiments requiring separate manifests, calibration gates, QPU-time estimates, and explicit approval.