C026 - Correlated phase-flip errors (I_e Z_e + Z_e I_e) leave the fidelity unaffected because |P...
Verdict: verified
Location: Theoretical error analysis
Type / expected artifact: empirical / math
Claim: Correlated phase-flip errors (I_e Z_e + Z_e I_e) leave the fidelity unaffected because |Psi^-> resides in a decoherence-free subspace.
Models: extraction claude-opus-4-8; verification gpt-5; verification_chain claude-opus-4-8 -> gpt-5; verdict_chain verified -> verified.
Source location(s): source/main.tex:145 (Theoretical error analysis).
Conclusion
Claim: correlated phase-flip (I_eZ_e+Z_eI_e) leaves fidelity unaffected because |Psi^-> is in a DFS. (1) Structural: U_z(eps)|Psi^->=e^{i phi}|Psi^-> for all eps; |
Verification details
Executable rerun: run.py exited 0 in 0.54s; log verification/C026/attempts/R002/run.log.
Output excerpt:
=== (1) Structural: U_z(eps)|Psi^-> = phase * |Psi^-> ? ===
eps=0.10: |<Psi^-|U|Psi^->|=1.0000000000, ||U|Psi^-> - <..>|Psi^->|| = 1.573e-16
eps=0.50: |<Psi^-|U|Psi^->|=1.0000000000, ||U|Psi^-> - <..>|Psi^->|| = 1.618e-16
eps=1.00: |<Psi^-|U|Psi^->|=1.0000000000, ||U|Psi^-> - <..>|Psi^->|| = 1.755e-16
eps=2.30: |<Psi^-|U|Psi^->|=1.0000000000, ||U|Psi^-> - <..>|Psi^->|| = 1.755e-16
=== (2) Dynamical: steady-state F with U_z(sqrt(2p)) per cycle ===
p F_ss 1-F
0.000 1.0000000000 5.232e-12
0.005 1.0000000000 5.412e-12
0.010 1.0000000000 5.652e-12