96-Active-Qubit Madmartigan Benchmark on IBM Quantum Hardware (No Error Correction, No Post-Selection)
This record contains the Madmartigan 96-Active-Qubit Structured-Output Benchmark package developed under the Quantum State Command Encoding (QSCE) research program.
The benchmark documents the progression from an original 16-qubit Madmartigan structured-output circuit into a controlled 96-active-qubit, six-tile NISQ benchmark executed on IBM superconducting quantum hardware. The objective was not merely to increase qubit count, but to test whether a designed quantum circuit could preserve a reference-specific structured-output band across multiple physical tile regions under real hardware constraints.
The final benchmark package includes execution on IBM Marrakesh using 96 active qubits, 156 measured qubits, six simultaneous 16-qubit tiles, 4096 shots per run, no quantum error correction, and no post-selection. The primary GLOBALPACK T6 rank-2 layout is accompanied by calibration-aware 64-active-qubit replication results, multi-seed robustness testing, an 831-depth 96-active-qubit stress layout, same-layout generic RCS controls, phase-scrambled architecture-adjacent controls, and partial-entanglement ablation analysis.
The central finding is that the Madmartigan circuit preserved repeatable, reference-specific structured-output behavior across tiled hardware execution, while same-layout generic RCS controls and phase-scrambled controls failed to reproduce the Madmartigan reference band. The package includes statistical raw-versus-control separation, physical tile-map visualizations, and reproducibility artifacts to support independent technical review.
Included materials may include some or all of the following: benchmark report, QASM3 circuit exports, QPY circuit artifacts, raw hardware counts, metadata, analysis CSVs, physical tile maps, scanner outputs, statistical comparison files, figures, and supporting run scripts. These artifacts are provided to support auditability, reproducibility review, and continued evaluation of QSCE/Madmartigan structured-output preservation as a potential near-term NISQ utility pathway.
This work is positioned as a structured-output preservation benchmark rather than a universal quantum advantage claim. Its relevance lies in testing whether quantum hardware output can be engineered into stable, classifiable, reference-specific signal bands that may support future quantum-to-classical handoff, signaling, authentication, command validation, and cyber-hardening primitives.
Reproducibility package available upon request at frank@quantummidiposse.com