Independent quantum computation validation
The numbers can look right and the computation can still be wrong.
IQ Intel Quantum Referee grades what happened inside an eligible quantum computation — the state, the path, the transformation, the mitigation — under a protocol frozen before anyone sees the result.
Did two circuits remain computationally equivalent?
Where did the computation first diverge?
Did optimization improve the state—or destroy a better earlier state?
Did error mitigation actually improve the result?
Does the reported answer correspond to the intended quantum state?
Can the claim be independently proven at all?
Those are referee questions. Endpoint dashboards do not answer them.
Why this exists
We built datasets. Then we had to see inside the computations that produced them.
IQ Intel’s flagship lines are NMC811-IQ cathode trajectories and MagNet-IQ NdFeB process chains. Preliminary Si-anode and polymer lattice runs are done. A light-activated cancer-drug run is in process. Defending those trajectories required grading computations the way the field usually does, then inspecting the state.
Energy plus variance was not enough
A standard VQE H4 workflow landed about 0.56% from the exact ground-state energy with essentially zero variance. The prepared state had effectively no overlap with the ground state. The field’s usual endpoint pair certified the wrong object.
2 of 35 against exact ground truth
A 35-cell error-mitigation matrix, hashes published before the official run, scored 2 of 35. The useful fact is not the miss. An improved observable does not certify the computation. Seeing that from inside the state is what became the referee.
The offer
A bounded verdict, not another simulator brochure.
Freeze the claim. Pre-flight the circuit. Route only eligible structure to an exact or bounded reference. Return PASS, FAIL, INCONCLUSIVE, RESOURCE_LIMIT, or UNSUPPORTED with a sealed package. Exact coherent reference has been demonstrated on structured circuits through 40 qubits, including a two-block case. A circuit built to break the reference is refused, not approximated.
Ideal reference without device theater
Compare an eligible measured output to an independent ideal computation. This referees the claim, not T1, pulses, or the refrigerator.
The circuit, not just the energy
State identity, checkpoints, and Hamiltonian-derived circuits where the structure is eligible. H-to-circuit equivalence stays a separate claim.
A claim that can survive a hostile reader
Compiler equivalence, mitigation honesty, and explicit refusal when the requested exact reference is outside the validated mechanism.
If you want the files
Public studies first. Full envelope on request.
This page is the industry brief. Routing tables, hashes, and sealed packages are on the technical page.
VQE state-identity audit
Endpoint metrics and state identity are separate validation claims.
Error-mitigation referee matrix
Preregistered predictions. Truth-blind grading. Most prior expectations did not survive.
Sealed Referee library
Envelope program, exact-coherent frontier, equivalence, hardware-output, and algorithm packages.
Materials dataset IV&V
NMC811 and MagNet are validated as trajectories and properties, not as a substitute for circuit-state equivalence.