We derive an explicit test of whether a reduced quantum-memory model overstates recoverability. For channels with orthogonal logical outputs in distinguishable sectors, the minimum recovery error follows directly from differences between environmental record amplitudes, without numerical recovery optimization. Applying this test to two-excitation oscillator–qubit and four-qubit encodings reveals that matching single-loss responses need not preserve finite-time recoverability. Under collective loss, the four-qubit encoding is perfectly recoverable, whereas oscillator emission records reveal logical information. The resulting unavoidable error initially grows as the cube of storage time. The test quantifies omitted-level effects and benchmarks reduced models and recovery algorithms.
We derive an explicit test of whether a reduced quantum-memory model overstates recoverability. For channels with orthogonal logical outputs in distinguishable sectors, the minimum recovery error follows directly from differences between environmental record amplitudes, without numerical recovery optimization. Applying this test to two-excitation oscillator–qubit and four-qubit encodings reveals that matching single-loss responses need not preserve finite-time recoverability. Under collective loss, the four-qubit encoding is perfectly recoverable, whereas oscillator emission records reveal logical information. The resulting unavoidable error initially grows as the cube of storage time. The test quantifies omitted-level effects and benchmarks reduced models and recovery algorithms.
Abstract Decoherence suppresses interference, but an observer’s ability to reconstruct a classical pointer value depends on additional resources: distinguishable conditional environmental states, an allowed measurement, sufficient accessible fragments, and sufficiently independent records. We provide an explicit minimal quantum-to-operational bridge that places these requirements in one chain. A system qubit is correlated with conditional environmental qubit states, permitting exact expressions for residual coherence, quantum mutual information, pointer Holevo information, accessible information, and Helstrom discrimination error. Full density-matrix calculations validate the formulas across 280 endpoint and interior cases. An accessible-sector/hidden-bath construction shows that coherence can fall below 2.3 × 10⁻⁵ while the observer’s record information and error remain fixed at 0.0803 bits and 0.4009. Measurement policies shift recovery thresholds: for record overlap 0.8 and error tolerance 0.05, collective or optimized adaptive-local discrimination requires four fragments, a fixed canonical-basis measurement requires six, and repeated one-fragment Helstrom measurements followed by classical decoding require seven. More importantly, records matched at the one-fragment level can have radically different collective behavior. For a binary pointer, the common-mode classical channel has an exact accessible-information ceiling of 1 − h₂(0.1) = 0.5310 bits, while the noncommuting hidden-memory ensemble approaches the same Holevo-information ceiling; matched independent records approach one bit and zero error. Disjoint observer counts and unanimous agreement likewise depend on shared error structure. Finally, declared local measurements induce classical record channels that are subjected to held-out model selection, predictive checks, abstention, and simultaneous finite-sample threshold certification. The resulting framework supplies the validated quantum-to-operational record model used in the companion analysis of operational capacity bounds for distinguishable decoherent histories.
When quantum information initially stored in a local qubit disappears, it need not be lost: it may have moved into nearby degrees of freedom or become inaccessible to shallow local control. We introduce finite-window recoverability as an operational channel benchmark that separates these possibilities. It compares optimal recovery from the target site, recovery by a bounded-depth decoder on a finite window, and the unrestricted optimum for that window. Its operational component, local variational recovery, uses local state preparation, window-local control, and target-qubit Pauli readout to certify recoverable memory beyond the target and quantify how much of the same-window advantage is accessible to shallow control. In a disordered kicked-Ising Floquet chain, a depth-6 decoder on a five-site window realizes Q0opt<Q2shallow<Q2opt across the crossover regime, with positive certified gain for most disorder realizations and substantial shallow-accessibility fractions. The signal differs from target-site persistence and reconstructed coherent-information increments. Positive radius-2 gain also persists when the task is embedded in longer open chains using an independent tensor-network backend. Guided by this hierarchy, we test a carrier-deletion task in which the original target register is reset after the dynamics. A depth-8 decoder repairs the input from a radius-3 surrounding halo with held-out median Favg=0.758, above the single-qubit classical benchmark 2/3, and outperforms optimal one-, two-, and three-site halo-subwindow counterfactuals. These results establish finite-window recovery as a local-control benchmark for off-site quantum memory, diagnosing both where local quantum information remains and whether bounded-depth control can refocus it.
This preprint studies operational equivalence and recovery in a twenty-dimensional residual system with a fixed four-sector representation of dimensions 8, 8, 2 and 2. It distinguishes what a declared observation algebra can detect, what a channel preserves, and what a retained classical record makes recoverable. Record-resolved criteria separate useful reversible-error records from unrelated labels and measured-sector records, even when the discarded channel is the same. For a specified coarse-record model, the work identifies exactly recoverable observable algebras and proves an optimal entanglement-fidelity expression on a fixed four-state orbit code. Preparation-aware recovery is then classified over all one-use isometric subspaces in the stated family. An explicit ten-dimensional marker code attains exact recovery under a specified stochastic record where the whole-sector support restriction permits only eight dimensions. Its encoding, nonbaseline marker measurement, and conditional inverse operations remain supplied resources. Scoped Lean evidence verifies the explicit arbitrary-complex-matrix recovery construction and related finite identities; it does not formalize the general complete-positivity/reference framework or optimal-dimension theorem. The recorded-error model is not derived from the companion exchange-timing model, and no protection of its long pulse sequence is claimed.
We study recoverable entanglement in a four-qubit cluster-state register whose two detector qubits couple to a scalar field. A local preparation phase leaves the initial reference--register entanglement and detector marginal unchanged, but controls protection under collective noise. At the optimal phase, a fixed decoder recovers a Bell pair after any channel preserving the singlet and triplet sectors. For uniformly accelerated detectors at finite separation, an exact trace-norm formula shows that the same phase is optimal at every time within the secular weak-coupling dynamics. Small separation produces a slow decay, whose rate and phase-dependent amplitude we derive. Matching the local response to an inertial thermal bath gives an analytic optimum time for the entanglement contrast. A detector measurement and conditional phase correction recover a two-qubit teleportation resource. Spatial smearing and an ordered weak-coupling then small-separation limit specify the microscopic scope of the lifetime prediction.
What must a quantum error-correction decoder know about temporally correlated noise, and what does it cost to learn? We study this question for fixed stabilizer memory experiments with known system-environment interactions. We formulate calibration in terms of the fidelity differences that select a Pauli recovery and relate missing information to the resulting fidelity loss. Our main example uses weak coherent X rotations in a class of CSS codes including Shor, Steane, and odd-distance rotated surface codes. All physical qubits share a sign either fixed throughout a run or independently redrawn each interval. The two models have identical syndrome statistics and the same spatiotemporal Pauli process (SPP), obtained by Pauli-twirling every noise interval. Yet at suitable storage times, they require different logical corrections. In the weak-noise limit, each model is almost perfectly correctable when known. Without model information, even the best final recovery has a worst-case fidelity loss approaching 1/2 relative to the noise-aware optimum, despite access to the full syndrome record. For this pair of models, at fixed code and fixed positive target loss below 1/2, we prove matching calibration bounds. With logical preparation and final readout, complete QEC cycles require a number of noise intervals scaling as the inverse rotation angle raised to the code's X distance. Allowing two uninterrupted intervals before one extraction reduces the optimal cost to inverse-square scaling. Physical Pauli twirling of every noise interval changes both recovery performance and its information requirements. Discarding the record of applied random Pauli operations makes the SPP sufficient for optimal recovery. Keeping this record can improve the attainable fidelity, but reaching that optimum may require additional noise information.
We introduce a contrast-based recoverability diagnostic for relativistic and mediated-entanglement experiments. The diagnostic compares a homogeneous reference spectrum with spectra obtained after controlled parameter variation, species change, hidden-mode access, finite-record feedback, or null intervention. In the minimal two-qubit setting, proper-time and transport effects are locally recoverable dressings. For n-constituent configuration sectors, one-round k-block recovery gives a scale-resolved spectrum. A diagonal phase is exactly recoverable at block size k precisely when it factorizes over a partition whose blocks have size at most k. Homogeneous occupation shells provide the symmetry null; heterogeneous sectors test the factorization of the observed phase. The four-constituent, four-level case is the smallest compact example with nontrivial block hierarchy, shell leakage, and constituent ambiguity. A staged fermion--fermion (FF)/boson--fermion (BF) comparison separates ordinary parameter nonidentity from species and statistics constraints. Extensions to unused levels, redundant modules, and larger connected clusters remove specific diagnostic blind spots. A finite classical record is bounded by a record-overlap contraction theorem, while a coherent hidden mode is not. The framework organizes which observed phases, visibility losses, and mediated-entanglement witnesses are locally recoverable, block-recoverable, hidden-mode recoverable, or record-limited.