Does the height of the quantum record plateau build monotonically with spin-flip coupling? A preregistered re-analysis of a flip-amplitude dose-response

Tristen Pierson

Published Oct 11, 2026• 0 citations

Abstract

Preregistered re-analysis of frozen simulation rows. In a central-spin model, information about the central spin is recorded redundantly in its environment, appearing as a plateau in the mutual-information curve between the system and environment fragments; the plateau's height measures the record's strength. On the substrate of configurations whose plateau is intact at the reference dose of an earlier flip-amplitude dose-response study (36 configurations), this study tests whether the substrate-median plateau height builds monotonically with spin-flip coupling strength across six doses. A single deterministic pass; no new simulation.

DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/8uyjg

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