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Universal_Particle_Detector_via_Quantum_Correlations

Walter Ayala

Published Sep 24, 2026• 0 citations
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Version 6.1 develops an integrated research framework for a modular particle detector usingmultiple quantum correlation resources.The architecture does not posit one universal quantum resource. Instead, it defines a resourcestackH = {C, D, S, V, E}, (1)together with an adaptive controller operating on measured resource estimates, uncertaintyintervals, detector conditions, and environmental covariates.The V6.1 architecture introduces five major extensions: 1. leakage-resistant experimental data partitioning;2. explicit calibration and domain-shift correction;3. uncertainty-aware adaptive resource selection;4. multi-objective classification and energy inference;5. hierarchical reproducibility and falsification criteria.The detector is represented as a conditional measurement system:p(Y | P, Z, Q, Θ), (2)where P denotes particle state, Z environmental conditions, Q the quantum subsystem, andΘ the locked experimental configuration.The adaptive controller selects a resource or resource subset using a preregistered utilityfunction:r⋆ = arg minr∈HLr. (3)Unlike a simple point-estimate controller, V6.1 explicitly propagates uncertainty and allowsan abstention state when the available evidence does not justify a classification.The primary validation framework evaluates classification, energy reconstruction, backgroundrejection, calibration, calibration transfer, robustness, and independent replication.Version 6.1 additionally integrates an explicit sensor platform layer, an event-conditioningchannel, a multi-resource feature vector, and a readout-and-timing block.No experimental result is claimed.

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10.5281/zenodo.22947175

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Constructing optimal quantum information protocols without complete knowledge of the underlying states or channels is a central challenge. We address this challenge by developing universal correlation detection as a common building block for quantum communication. Our detectors distinguish a bipartite state from the product of its marginals and attain the same first-order asymptotic performance as optimal tests constructed with complete state information. For general bipartite quantum states, knowledge of a single marginal suffices: a detector depending only on that marginal is first-order optimal for every compatible state. For classical-quantum states, the detector is fully universal and requires no prior state information. By combining these detectors with position-based decoding and convex splitting, we construct channel-independent coding schemes that achieve capacity for a range of communication tasks. These results turn universal correlation detection into a systematic tool for universal protocol design, providing a unified route to designing capacity-achieving protocols for many communication tasks over unknown quantum channels.
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