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Standards-Ready Network Sensing: 4S3 Gates, Tokens-Only Replay, and Falsifier-First Design

Richardson, William J.

Published Nov 9, 2025• 0 citations
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This manuscript specifies a mid-level, standards-ready controller for networked quantum sensing under a Four-Solves-Three (4S3) contract. Four fixed roles (D, A, B, C) decide three gates—parity hygiene, centered-network co-lock, and corridor severity—without threshold travel and with tokens-only replay. The physical setting is a compact continuous-variable network that enables weighted-sum estimation on the determinant lane (D). I/Q centering (L1/L2) anchors the estimator; z_tension operates as a stop-token budget. Device-independent falsifiers (flip-only phase, disable-L, withhold-node, leave-one-out) are executed at network scale. Heisenberg claims are bound-respecting via a preregistered Fisher ratio band and an identifiability angle token. Two guard-safe routes are contrasted under the same contract: Route A (Magnon Electric Readout, direct D-lane weighted sum) and Route B (Angular Ribbon Mid-Stream Tap, advisory-only centering/stop). A minimal replication kit (frozen graph/weights/mask, detector model, and JSON schemas) allows third parties to reproduce IoU and rho, rerun falsifiers, and verify acceptance from tokens alone.

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10.5281/zenodo.17567049

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