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Coherence-Field Driven Harmonic Engineering of Qubit Stability

Treadwell, Clifford

Published Dec 4, 2025• 0 citations
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This short paper presents an experimentally testable prediction about coherence management in quantum systems, derived from a general field-theoretic framework.The result is intentionally narrow: it identifies a specific environmental parameter that should influence qubit stability, decoherence rates, and the performance of trapped-atom, superconducting, and photonic platforms. The paper outlines: a clear physical mechanism, the expected direction and magnitude of the effect, conditions under which the signal should be strongest, how to distinguish it from noise or substrate-dependent artifacts, and a set of simple experiments that current quantum laboratories can run immediately. No new hardware is required — only controlled variation of coherence-relevant environmental parameters that most labs already monitor.If verified, the effect offers a new handle for improving qubit lifetimes and reducing error rates, and provides an independent probe of how macroscopic coherence affects quantum information flow. The paper is designed to be fully falsifiable.A null result would place clean constraints on the underlying framework; a positive result would open a new experimental pathway for coherence engineering.

DOI
10.5281/zenodo.17821145

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