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Quantum volume benchmark

The cited paper defines quantum volume and reports the protocol on specified transmon processors. Within this page, that proposition is limited to The models, apparatus, protocols, datasets, and comparisons reported in Validating quantum computers using randomized model circuits.

Substantial reference · 9 evidence dimensions · maha-substantial-publication/1.5

Bounded definition

The cited paper defines quantum volume and reports the protocol on specified transmon processors. Within this page, that proposition is limited to The models, apparatus, protocols, datasets, and comparisons reported in Validating quantum computers using randomized model circuits.

Definition and evidence boundary

A system-level benchmark based on successfully implementing randomized model circuits of equal width and depth. The bounded proposition retained by the canonical record is: The cited paper defines quantum volume and reports the protocol on specified transmon processors.

The applicable scope is The models, apparatus, protocols, datasets, and comparisons reported in Validating quantum computers using randomized model circuits. This definition must not be generalized beyond the cited source and exact record boundary.

Claims: urn:maha:claim:quantum-volume-benchmark

Mechanism and technical context

The paper defines quantum volume through random circuits of equal width and depth and reports measurements on specified transmon devices. This is the source-bound technical context for the record; no uncited mechanism is added by the compiler.

A single aggregate benchmark cannot establish application advantage or isolate every hardware, calibration, compiler, and topology limitation. The mechanism or method is therefore presented as one component of a larger system, not as evidence for every downstream outcome.

Claims: urn:maha:claim:quantum-volume-benchmark

How to interpret the evidence

No platform-independent uncertainty interval exists; numerical values remain attached to the source experiment or model and its stated assumptions. The evidence maturity recorded here is single study, and the claim kind is empirical claim.

This candidate records one bounded source package. Independent replications and contradictory measurements must be compiled as separate records before maturity is upgraded. Quantum volume is one aggregate benchmark and does not establish application advantage, fault tolerance, or equivalence across every architecture and compiler. These qualifications travel with the claim whenever it is reused.

Claims: urn:maha:claim:quantum-volume-benchmark

What the source supports and what remains unknown

The inspected source supports exactly this: The paper defines quantum volume through random circuits of equal width and depth and reports measurements on specified transmon devices. It was read at Abstract; protocol definition; experimental demonstrations; appendices.

What remains unknown is everything outside that locator. A single aggregate benchmark cannot establish application advantage or isolate every hardware, calibration, compiler, and topology limitation. No quantity, comparison, or downstream outcome is established here unless a separately scoped record measures it.

Claims: urn:maha:claim:quantum-volume-benchmark

Source identity, locator, and reuse boundary

The bound source is “Validating quantum computers using randomized model circuits” by Andrew W. Cross, Lev S. Bishop, Sarah Sheldon, Paul D. Nation, Jay M. Gambetta, published by Physical Review A, American Physical Society on 2019-09-20; its declared stable identity is doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.100.032328.

The inspected-content locator is Abstract; protocol definition; experimental demonstrations; appendices. Reuse is limited to citation-with-paraphrase. Maha paraphrases the source-level result and links to the version of record; no article passage is reproduced. This metadata establishes source identity and inspection scope, not the truth of claims outside the cited locator.

Claims: urn:maha:claim:quantum-volume-benchmark

Comparison and calculation boundary

Applicability is decided explicitly, not filled with generic material.

Comparison · not-applicable

This record carries 1 source-bound proposition and therefore has no second supported side. A comparison would have to be manufactured from an adjacent title rather than from a second inspected claim, which the gate forbids.

Calculation · not-applicable

The canonical claim declares no reproducible numerical inputs, equation, units, or uncertainty propagation; recorded uncertainty kind is qualitative. Supplying sample values would invent an unsupported quantitative result.

Limitations and prohibited inference

The claim stops where its evidence stops.

  • record boundary

    A single aggregate benchmark cannot establish application advantage or isolate every hardware, calibration, compiler, and topology limitation.

  • record boundary

    A source-bounded mechanism, method, or measurement record does not establish manufacturing yield, economic advantage, safety, clinical benefit, or commercial readiness unless those outcomes are measured in a separately scoped record.

  • prohibited inference

    Do not infer general quantum-computing readiness from the quantum volume benchmark record alone.

  • prohibited inference

    Do not transfer a reported result across hardware, organisms, protocols, datasets, operating conditions, or outcome definitions without a declared comparison contract.

  • editorial

    This compilation reorganizes an existing inspected claim and its declared source; it does not add a new experiment, measurement, or independent replication.

  • editorial

    Internal editorial inspection is not external peer review, and no result on this page has been independently reproduced.

Related records and mathematical bridges

prerequisite

Circuit quantum electrodynamics

Same canonical domain (quantum-systems). Domain membership only: no shared source or declared edge links these two records.

Selection: domain adjacency

mechanism

Quantum hardware benchmark scope

Declared mechanistic-dependency edge from this record. The edge is navigational and asserts no equivalence or causation beyond the cited source scope.

Selection: bridge edge

boundary

Random-circuit sampling

Declared strategic-dependency edge into this record, so it is positioned earlier in the same bounded sequence.

Selection: bridge edge

When no declared bridge edge is present, related records are linked by shared evidence or canonical domain adjacency. Those links are navigational and do not claim mathematical or physical equivalence.

Connected domain graph

Typed dependencies preserve publication state.

Only independently canonical records receive public links and relation statements. Draft graph topology remains private.

mechanistic dependencycanonical

Quantum hardware benchmark scope

outbound connection · comparison

Quantum volume is one bounded benchmark contract among several non-equivalent metrics.

strategic dependencycanonical

Random-circuit sampling

inbound connection · method

Both use random circuits but define different acceptance metrics and scaling summaries.

mechanistic dependencycanonical

Quantum hardware benchmark scope

inbound connection · comparison

Quantum volume is one explicit instance of a hardware benchmark contract.

Claim ledger

Every proposition keeps its own evidence state.

empirical-claimsingle-study

The cited paper defines quantum volume and reports the protocol on specified transmon processors.

Scope
The models, apparatus, protocols, datasets, and comparisons reported in Validating quantum computers using randomized model circuits.
Boundary
A single aggregate benchmark cannot establish application advantage or isolate every hardware, calibration, compiler, and topology limitation.
Uncertainty
No platform-independent uncertainty interval exists; numerical values remain attached to the source experiment or model and its stated assumptions.
Replication
This candidate records one bounded source package. Independent replications and contradictory measurements must be compiled as separate records before maturity is upgraded.

Primary sources

Citation, locator, rights, and boundary travel together.

  1. Source 1 · Physical Review A, American Physical Society

    Validating quantum computers using randomized model circuits

    Andrew W. Cross, Lev S. Bishop, Sarah Sheldon, Paul D. Nation, Jay M. Gambetta

    Exact locator
    Abstract; protocol definition; experimental demonstrations; appendices.
    Establishes
    The paper defines quantum volume through random circuits of equal width and depth and reports measurements on specified transmon devices.
    Boundary
    Quantum volume is one aggregate benchmark and does not establish application advantage, fault tolerance, or equivalence across every architecture and compiler.
    Rights basis
    citation with paraphrase · Maha paraphrases the source-level result and links to the version of record; no article passage is reproduced.
    Declared interests
    The authors were affiliated with IBM Research and measured IBM devices.