OPEN SCIENCE EVIDENCE REGISTRY • FROZEN AUDIT 2026-08-18

Verified Evidence Registry & Claim Boundaries

Every public claim made by Q-Psi is bound to explicit scientific statuses, IBM Quantum runtime job IDs, physical QPU backends, and cryptographic SHA-256 evidence seals.

FREEZE COMMIT: be74ad05187e148e2fc52309f4d7f57be3784157
TOTAL AUDITED EXPERIMENTS: 14 Completed / 1 Incomplete
RAW SEAL INTEGRITY: 100.0% VERIFIED
CLAIM_COMPILER_GROVER_QUERY_ADVANTAGETIER_A
STATUS: SUPPORTED
EXPERIMENT: Compiler + Grover v1.1 (QPSI_COMPILER_GROVER_V1_1)

Q-Psi demonstrated compiler-enabled physical quantum query advantage on structured candidate-state search problems on IBM Heron hardware under an opaque black-box verifier model (N=4: 2.43x, N=8: 1.73x, N=16: 1.19x; 9/9 individual cases; 3/3 tested sizes).

IBM JOB ID: da1c7rkdedkc73eqs5mg
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: 8f65edbe0cea3ffd...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Valid strictly under the query complexity metric on tested structured oracle families; does not establish wall-clock speedup, general compiler advantage, or universal software-repair quantum advantage.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • Compiler-enabled physical quantum query advantage on a frozen candidate-state search benchmark.
  • Quantum query reduction factors of 2.43x (N=4), 1.73x (N=8), and 1.19x (N=16) observed on physical quantum hardware (ibm_marrakesh).
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • General quantum speedup for arbitrary software repair.
  • End-to-end wall-clock compiler runtime advantage.
  • General quantum advantage.
CLAIM_DYNAMIC_BV_QUERY_ADVANTAGETIER_A
STATUS: SUPPORTED
EXPERIMENT: Dynamic Bernstein-Vazirani (QPSI_DYNAMIC_BV_QUERY_ADVANTAGE)

Q-Psi demonstrated statistically significant physical quantum query complexity scaling advantage on the Dynamic Bernstein-Vazirani problem across N=4..16 qubits on IBM Heron hardware (slope 0.153 vs classical 0.696, t = -30.65, p < 1e-6).

IBM JOB ID: da1a03mg52gs73clcj80
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: 72e8773865cdcbba...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Restricted to the tested oracle complexity model on synthetic scaling series; does not generalize to wall-clock speedup or arbitrary workloads.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • Demonstrated statistically significant physical quantum query scaling advantage on Dynamic Bernstein-Vazirani problem across N=4..16 qubits on IBM Marrakesh.
  • Quantum query scaling slope (0.153) is statistically superior to classical exhaustive bound (0.696, t = -30.65, p < 1e-6).
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • General quantum supremacy.
  • General quantum advantage for arbitrary computational problems.
  • Wall-clock speedup.
CLAIM_MCM_QUBIT_REUSE_WIDTH_REDUCTIONTIER_A
STATUS: SUPPORTED WITH QUALIFICATION
EXPERIMENT: MCM Qubit Reuse (QPSI_MCM_QUBIT_REUSE_V1)

Compiler-driven liveness and mid-circuit reuse reduced physical register width by a median 78.1% (up to 87.5% on 16 logical qubits mapped to 2 physical slots) across the frozen streaming benchmark while all six tested cases remained within the predeclared observable-quality criterion.

IBM JOB ID: da1u0om3kjvs738777cg
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: ec0f2cea637f433f...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Applicable strictly to circuits with sequential liveness graphs and streaming communication topologies; arbitrary non-local entanglement requires full register width. Does not imply 16-qubit computations generally require 2 qubits.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • Compiler-driven liveness and mid-circuit reuse reduced physical register width by a median 78.1% across the frozen streaming benchmark while all six tested cases remained within the predeclared observable-quality criterion.
  • Evaluated 16 logical-qubit workloads on 2 to 3 physical slots on IBM Marrakesh.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • 16-qubit quantum computation generally requires only 2 qubits for all algorithms.
  • Universal width reduction for arbitrary quantum circuits.
CLAIM_DATA_FOUNDRY_V2_120QSEC_FEASIBILITYTIER_A
STATUS: SUPPORTED WITH QUALIFICATION
EXPERIMENT: Quantum Data Foundry V2 (QPSI_QUANTUM_DATA_FOUNDRY_CODING_V2_120QSEC)

Q-Psi demonstrated a physical-QPU-assisted coding-data pipeline in which QPU measurement samples causally selected repository mutation states that were converted by executable software verifiers into 93 unique verified repair records (127.58s runtime, 332,768 shots, 100% QPU provenance).

IBM JOB ID: da1vjh4dedkc73erijq0, da1vjmeg52gs73cm5us0, da1vk3mg52gs73cm607g, da1vke63kjvs738795og
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: dfd11daa2f1f51b2...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Feasibility demonstration only. The current throughput bottleneck is classical verification (158 evaluated of 65,138 QPU states). Downstream LLM fine-tuning and model improvement were NOT tested. No quantum training advantage is claimed.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • Q-Psi demonstrated a physical-QPU-assisted coding-data pipeline in which QPU measurement samples causally selected repository mutation states that were converted by executable software verifiers into 93 unique verified repair records.
  • The experiment demonstrates pipeline feasibility, not improved model quality or quantum advantage. Downstream LLM fine-tuning was not evaluated.
  • 93 verifier-backed positives were produced under the bounded V2 pipeline after 65,138 unique candidate states were supplied by physical-QPU sampling.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Quantum generated 417k useful LLM tokens autonomously.
  • Q-Psi improves LLMs.
  • Quantum training advantage.
  • Better training data than classical methods.
  • 93 records per 127 seconds without explaining bounded classical verification.
CLAIM_MQT_CROSS_COMPILER_BENCHMARKTIER_A
STATUS: MIXED OR INCONCLUSIVE
EXPERIMENT: MQT Cross-Compiler Benchmark (QPSI_MQT_CROSS_COMPILER_BENCHMARK_V1)

On standard MQT benchmarks on IBM Heron, Q-Psi compiled all 18 frozen benchmark cases. Physical competitiveness was workload-dependent: Qiskit held a small aggregate fidelity advantage (-0.0067 delta), while the apparent aggregate advantage over TKET (+0.0398 delta) was driven by one routing-sensitive workload (vqe_su2_n8).

IBM JOB ID: da1ul7e3kjvs73877tag
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: 9d347393dd9f2b3c...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Q-Psi compiled all 18 frozen benchmark cases. Physical competitiveness was workload-dependent: Qiskit held a small aggregate fidelity advantage, while the apparent aggregate advantage over TKET was driven by one routing-sensitive workload (vqe_su2_n8: +0.2696 delta; omitting vqe_su2_n8 yields -0.0062 delta vs TKET). Final status: MIXED_COMPETITIVENESS.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • External MQT Bench comparison against Qiskit and TKET.
  • Q-Psi compiled all 18 frozen benchmark cases. Physical competitiveness was workload-dependent: Qiskit held a small aggregate fidelity advantage, while the apparent aggregate advantage over TKET was driven by one routing-sensitive workload.
  • Commercial benchmark classification: MIXED_COMPETITIVENESS.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Q-Psi beats TKET.
  • Q-Psi beats Qiskit.
  • Q-Psi is faster/better than leading quantum compilers generally.
  • General compiler superiority.
CLAIM_DYNAMIC_ROUTING_CROSSOVERTIER_B
STATUS: SUPPORTED WITH QUALIFICATION
EXPERIMENT: Dynamic Routing Crossover (QPSI_DYNAMIC_ROUTING_CROSSOVER_V1)

Dynamic routing compressed 2Q depth from 73 to 2 on the longest tested path (13 hops), but hardware reset and measurement noise prevented physical Bell-fidelity crossover on Heron r2, confirming pre-QPU compiler predictions.

IBM JOB ID: da1t22mg52gs73cm31i0
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: 6c8527a985465158...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Unitary routing physically won on short and medium distances; long distance (13 hops) was statistically inconclusive. No dynamic routing superiority claimed.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • Dynamic routing structurally compresses 2Q depth from 73 to 2 on long distances (13 hops), but hardware reset and measurement noise prevent a physical Bell fidelity crossover on IBM Marrakesh, confirming pre-QPU compiler predictions.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Dynamic routing always outperforms unitary routing on current hardware.
  • Quantum routing advantage.
CLAIM_COMPILER_STAGE6F_OPTIMIZATIONTIER_B
STATUS: SUPPORTED WITH QUALIFICATION
EXPERIMENT: Stage 6F Physical Optimization (QPSI_STAGE6F_PHYSICAL_OPTIMIZATION)

QAOA-based compiler optimization on IBM Marrakesh achieved 4/4 exact optimum hits on small compiler graphs (N<=10), matching classical branch-and-bound, but degraded on N=18..25 due to hardware noise.

IBM JOB ID: da16h8ug52gs73cl8uog
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: 3f3b4c3982a267aa...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Exact classical optimum parity achieved only for small graphs (N<=10); large instances degraded under unmitigated NISQ error. No overall quantum advantage claimed.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • QAOA-based compiler optimization on IBM Marrakesh achieves 4/4 exact optimum hits on small compiler graphs (N<=10), matching classical branch-and-bound, but degrades on N=18..25 due to hardware noise.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Quantum compiler optimization outpaces classical solvers.
  • Quantum advantage for compiler optimization.
CLAIM_QUANTUM_DATA_FOUNDRY_CODING_V1TIER_B
STATUS: SUPPORTED WITH QUALIFICATION
EXPERIMENT: Quantum Data Foundry V1 (QPSI_QUANTUM_DATA_FOUNDRY_CODING_V1)

Initial proof-of-concept demonstration of physical QPU selector on M=1024 space yielding 14 verified unique code repair records (4,096 shots, 4.70s runtime).

IBM JOB ID: da1vc94dedkc73eri8qg
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: 9f7ac0139566025b...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Historical proof-of-concept run; superseded by the V2 120-Qsec campaign.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • Initial feasibility demonstration of physical QPU selector on M=1024 space yielding 14 verified unique code repair records.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Headline data generation result.
CLAIM_CALIBRATION_AWARE_LAYOUT_VS_QISKITTIER_C
STATUS: NOT SUPPORTED
EXPERIMENT: Calibration-Aware Layout (QPSI_CALIBRATION_AWARE_LAYOUT_V1)

Against a strong baseline of Qiskit O3 best-of-8 seeds, Q-Psi calibration-aware layout achieved 1 win, 2 losses, 3 inconclusive (mean delta -0.0106), demonstrating that Qiskit multi-seed search remained superior or competitive on Heron r2.

IBM JOB ID: da1tm0eg52gs73cm3mh0
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: 5c5b9dff337488cb...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Preserved as an authentic negative baseline comparator to document willing publication of falsifying evidence.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • Against a strong baseline of Qiskit O3 best-of-8 seeds, Q-Psi calibration-aware layout achieves 1 win, 2 losses, 3 inconclusive (mean delta -0.0106), demonstrating that Qiskit multi-seed search remains superior or competitive on Heron r2.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Q-Psi calibration layout outperforms Qiskit layout on IBM Heron.
  • Compiler layout advantage over Qiskit.
CLAIM_FRACTIONAL_GATE_LOWERINGTIER_C
STATUS: MIXED OR INCONCLUSIVE
EXPERIMENT: Fractional Gate Lowering (QPSI_FRACTIONAL_GATE_LOWERING_V1)

Fractional gate lowering yielded structural pulse duration reductions and 2/6 physical wins, with 4/6 cases inconclusive on IBM Marrakesh, supporting mixed physical signal.

IBM JOB ID: da1tg6eg52gs73cm3gg0
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: 8a5cb81cf1b069ba...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Structural pulse duration compression does not translate to universal physical fidelity advantage across all workloads (2 wins, 4 inconclusive).
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • Fractional gate lowering yields structural gate duration reductions and 2/6 physical wins (N4_B, N8_B), with 4/6 cases inconclusive on IBM Marrakesh, supporting mixed physical signal.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Universal fidelity improvement from fractional pulse lowering.
  • Pulse-level quantum advantage.
CLAIM_DIRECTED_EXECUTION_SELECTIONTIER_C
STATUS: MIXED OR INCONCLUSIVE
EXPERIMENT: Directed Execution Selection (QPSI_DIRECTED_EXECUTION_SELECTION_V1)

Selective Pauli twirling twirled only 41.1% of CZ layers on IBM Directed Execution beta mode (58.9% reduction in twirling overhead); achieved 1 win vs unmitigated RAW baseline; comparison vs full twirling remained inconclusive.

IBM JOB ID: da1u5o63kjvs73877cm0
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: 2ae1632ebe9645be...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Evaluated on IBM Directed Execution beta mode; selective vs full non-inferiority was not statistically established across tested circuits.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • Risk-mass layer selection selects only 41.1% of CZ layers for twirling on IBM Directed Execution beta mode; yields 1/4 win vs unmitigated RAW baseline and statistically inconclusive comparison vs full twirling.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Selective twirling proven superior to full randomized compiling.
  • Directed execution advantage.
CLAIM_RESTRICTED_SIMON_ALGORITHMTIER_C
STATUS: MIXED OR INCONCLUSIVE
EXPERIMENT: Restricted Simon (QPSI_RESTRICTED_SIMON_PHYSICAL_STUDY)

Physical execution on IBM Marrakesh recovered secrets on 6/12 instances (N=8..28) with polynomial query count reduction relative to classical bound, but noise-induced degradation on larger N prevented establishing asymptotic quantum speedup.

IBM JOB ID: da1a0piein7c73bd5beg
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: aa22b8b023d03f9f...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Inconclusive due to 6/12 recovery failures at higher N under hardware noise. No asymptotic physical speedup claimed.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • Physical execution on IBM Marrakesh recovered secrets on 6/12 instances (N=8..28) with polynomial query count reduction relative to classical bound, but noise-induced degradation on larger N prevents establishing asymptotic quantum speedup.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Demonstrated asymptotic quantum speedup for Simon's algorithm.
  • Unconditional physical quantum advantage.
CLAIM_STATIC_BV_MANTRA_EXPLORATORYTIER_C
STATUS: EXPLORATORY
EXPERIMENT: Static BV / Mantra Exploratory (QPSI_STATIC_BV_MANTRA_EXPLORATORY)

Exploratory hardware calibration run on static BV and mantra state encoding on IBM Marrakesh demonstrated distinct measured output distributions.

IBM JOB ID: da1a01e3kjvs73874uog
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: 6d24837313ca01b5...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Exploratory calibration run only; zero metaphysical, causal, or consciousness claims.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • Exploratory hardware calibration run on static BV and mantra state encoding on IBM Marrakesh.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Algorithmic quantum advantage on static BV.
  • Metaphysical, spiritual, or consciousness claims.
CLAIM_MULTI_BACKEND_SELECTIONTIER_B
STATUS: SUPPORTED WITH QUALIFICATION
EXPERIMENT: Multi-Backend Selection (QPSI_MULTI_BACKEND_SELECTION_V1)

Across six canonical workloads and three IBM Heron r2 backends, Q-Psi successfully retargeted all 18 workload-backend combinations. Its pre-QPU selection heuristic placed the selected backend in the physically best statistical tier for 5 of 6 workloads, with one selection miss.

IBM JOB ID: da1uqsaein7c73bdtkm0, da1uqtm3kjvs738783qg, da1uqumg52gs73cm4v50
PHYSICAL QPU: ibm_fez, ibm_kingston, ibm_marrakesh (IBM Heron r2, 156 programmable qubits)
RAW SHA256: 4218490b1044e1e9...
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Tested on three IBM Heron r2 backends from one provider and one processor family. This does not establish multi-provider portability, universal backend-selection superiority, general compiler advantage, or general quantum advantage.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • Across six canonical workloads and three IBM Heron r2 backends, Q-Psi successfully retargeted all 18 workload-backend combinations.
  • Its frozen pre-QPU selection heuristic selected a backend in the physically best statistical tier for 5/6 workloads.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Multi-provider portability.
  • Cross-vendor compiler independence.
  • General backend-selection superiority.
  • Universal compiler advantage.
  • General quantum advantage.
  • Best backend selected on 5/6 workloads.
CLAIM_GENERAL_QUANTUM_ADVANTAGEDISCLAIMED
STATUS: NOT SUPPORTED
EXPERIMENT: Program-Wide Boundary

General quantum advantage for arbitrary classical software or compilation tasks is NOT established by Q-Psi research and is explicitly disclaimed.

IBM JOB ID: N/A
PHYSICAL QPU: N/A
RAW SHA256: N/A
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Explicitly rejected across the entire research program.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • General quantum advantage is NOT established by Q-Psi research.
  • No general quantum speedup for arbitrary software repair.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Q-Psi has achieved general quantum advantage.
  • Quantum computers outperform classical computers on general software tasks.
CLAIM_GENERAL_COMPILER_SUPERIORITYDISCLAIMED
STATUS: NOT SUPPORTED
EXPERIMENT: Program-Wide Boundary

General compiler runtime or optimization superiority over industrial compiler toolchains (Qiskit, TKET) is NOT established by Q-Psi research and is explicitly disclaimed.

IBM JOB ID: N/A
PHYSICAL QPU: N/A
RAW SHA256: N/A
AUDITED SCOPE & QUALIFICATION: Explicitly disclaimed; results show specialized advantages, workload-dependent competitiveness, and strong baseline parity.
AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS:
  • General compiler superiority over industrial toolchains (Qiskit, TKET) is NOT established.
PROHIBITED STATEMENTS:
  • Q-Psi is universally superior to Qiskit and TKET.
  • Q-Psi beats Qiskit.
  • Q-Psi beats TKET.
AUTHORIZED PUBLIC CLAIMS SUMMARY
  • Compiler + Grover Query Advantage: Bounded physical query advantage on structured search spaces on IBM Heron (9/9 cases, 3/3 problem sizes; N=16 95% CI upper bound 7.360 < 8.5).
  • Dynamic Bernstein-Vazirani: Bounded quantum query-scaling advantage (slope 0.153 vs classical 0.696, t = -30.65, p < 1e-6).
  • MCM Qubit Reuse: Median 78.1% physical register reduction across 6 cases with 6/6 non-inferior observable fidelity on streaming circuits.
  • Quantum Data Foundry V2: Pipeline feasibility demonstrated with 93 verified records from 332,768 physical shots in 127.58s runtime with 100% QPU provenance.
  • MQT Cross-Compiler: Mixed competitiveness across 18 benchmark cases on IBM Heron; ties/competes with Qiskit and TKET; disfavored vs Qiskit O3 (-0.0067 delta).
  • Dynamic Routing Crossover: Structural 2Q depth compression from 73 to 2 on 13 hops with no physical fidelity crossover.
  • Calibration-Aware Layout: Preserved negative comparator result; Qiskit O3 best-of-8 remained superior or competitive (mean delta -0.0106).
EXPLICITLY PROHIBITED & DISCLAIMED CLAIMS
  • General quantum advantage or computational supremacy for arbitrary software tasks.
  • General compiler superiority over industrial toolchains (Qiskit, TKET).
  • Wall-clock execution time speedup over classical computers.
  • Autonomous LLM token generation or proven LLM fine-tuning improvements from Data Foundry.
  • Universal qubit width reduction for arbitrary non-streaming quantum circuits.
  • Universal pulse-level fidelity advantage from fractional gate lowering.
  • Multi-backend physical ranking or cross-backend parity as completed research.
  • Metaphysical, spiritual, or consciousness claims from quantum state encoding.