Purpose

This page lists small, falsifiable research tracks that implement the dual view (objective constraints + agent layer). Each item names a question, a minimal protocol, and concrete measurements you can run with standard tools.

How to use this page

• Pick one track in your domain.
• Start with the “Minimal protocol.”
• Log the proposed measurements.
• Report what fails as well as what works.

A. Quantum foundations and control

1. Adaptive measurement as “closing the loop”

• Question: Does real‑time, model‑driven basis selection reduce predictive error relative to fixed bases?
• Minimal protocol: Implement a single‑qubit (or cavity) experiment with measurement‑based feedback; controller updates measurement basis to minimize next‑step negative log‑likelihood.
• Measure: Average predictive log‑loss vs fixed policy; energy/information budget; robustness to noise.
• Tools: QuTiP; Bayesian filters or RL; lab hardware or high‑fidelity simulators.
• Links: Quantum Foundations, Quantum Control & Feedback, Operational Criteria.

2. Coherence → work/information conversion

• Question: What’s the efficiency of converting off‑diagonal coherence into extractable work or mutual information?
• Minimal protocol: Resource‑theory mapping; implement control sequences that diagonalize in stages; record work (or information) per unit coherence consumed.
• Measure: Work/bit; sensitivity to dephasing; ablation on control precision.
• Tools: Resource theory of coherence; stochastic thermodynamics.

3. Phase as context