Observable-Conditioned Backaction in Dynamic Circuits: A Higher-Order Context-Conditioned Kernel for Local Dynamics
Abstract
Mid-circuit measurements are essential primitives for dynamic circuits and quantum error correction, yet characterizing their induced disturbance on spectator qubits remains a central practical problem. Device-level benchmarking often compresses this disturbance into low-order proxy metrics such as , , readout assignment error, and pairwise crosstalk. We argue that these proxies can be operationally incomplete for multiscale dynamic circuits. We introduce a higher-order context-conditioned kernel, , where is a global context label and a local observable. The term is a phenomenological compression ansatz isolating residual context dependence unexplained by standard proxies. To avoid impossibility issues of quantum partial-information decompositions on non-commuting algebras, the M\"obius weights entering this ansatz are evaluated operationally on classical measurement outcomes. We present evidence in three steps. First, earlier GHZ-versus-clock hardware results motivate an observable-class split. Second, we present dynamical evidence using the A6 synthetic hardware harness. A6 injects a pure higher-order context dependence via a programmed conditional interaction. Because the parity context is invisible to singles and pairs by construction, standard low-order diagnostics are fundamentally blind to the source of the probe's disturbance. Third, we demonstrate coherent controllability through the A6.2 quantum-eraser experiment. Programmable MARK interactions suppress unconditional fringes while eraser-basis conditioning restores them, consistent with complementarity bounds. These results validate a context-conditioned description of backaction over proxy-only null models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.18381,
title = {Observable-Conditioned Backaction in Dynamic Circuits: A Higher-Order Context-Conditioned Kernel for Local Dynamics},
author = {Petr Sramek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.18381},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
11 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. Includes empirical data, rigorous passive controls, and a hardware-native quantum eraser validation on IBM superconducting processors. Open-source Qiskit artifacts available via Zenodo