Twistor-Entangled Quantum Repetition using IBM’s 127-Qubit Quantum Computer

The Shannon Entropy by Hamming Distance Shell above (code on Qwork) shows Hamming Distance 1 dominates entropy (~1.18 bits). Distance 2 contributes moderately. Distance 0 and 3 are suppressed. This confirms that the vast majority of the system’s entropy resides on the first error shell, single-qubit flips. That’s not surprising for a repetition code under noise, but what’s important here is the compression of entropy. Shells 0 and 3 (perfect state or full collapse) have very low entropy contributions. This suggests that the system is not exploring extreme states. Instead, the twistor encoding causes it to cycle within a narrow geodesic band, emphasizing error locality and coherence. Twistor geometry isn’t just enhancing fidelity, it’s funneling quantum uncertainty into low-dimensional shells, minimizing decoherence risk by keeping entropy dynamically near the correctable surface of Hilbert space.
The Bitstring Phase Wheel (with Labels) above (code on Qwork) shows 011 and 101 dominate opposing sectors. There is angular symmetry between recovery states. Suppressed sectors are 000, 110, and 010. This is visual evidence of Twistor sectorization. Bitstrings cluster angularly, indicating projective phase alignment. The fact that 011 and 101 appear on nearly opposite sides of the wheel is important, these are mirror geodesics in Twistor space, connected by parity inversion and entangled rotation. States like 000 are not just low-count, they are excluded from the dominant sectors, showing topological isolation in Hilbert space. Twistor-locked angular geometry, the evolution of quantum information is not random, but occurs in discrete angular modes, showing quantum curvature effects consistent with Penrose’s vision of lightlike trajectories in complexified spacetime.
The Recovery vs Collapse Sectors (Polar) above (code on Qwork) shows green sectors (logical recoveries) dominate and are well-separated. Red sectors (logical failures) are smaller and spread across residual zones. Logical success states occupy discrete angular basins. These basins are wide and concentrated, indicating strong geodesic convergence. Failure states form scattered, shallow sectors, no strong attractors, just diffusion. This matches Twistor theory predictions, under holomorphic evolution, information collapses into stable basins, while incoherent outcomes fragment chaotically. Recovery space is not only more probable, but geometrically separated. Twistor encoding may create quantum error firewalls, where incorrect trajectories are not only less likely, they’re topologically unreachable from correct states without multiple error events.
The Twistor-Weighted Eigenstring Projection above (code on Qwork) shows 011 and 101 dominate eigen-projection strength. 111 shows meaningful but reduced projection. Other bitstrings contribute near-zero. This custom visualization simulated nonlinear eigenstate response by assigning projection strength proportional to the square of Hamming weight (a synthetic 'Twistor field intensity'). The system prefers bitstrings aligned with geometric axes (2 or 3 ones). These project deeply into the 'Twistor eigenbasis', they match the structure imposed by the circuit’s RY + CX topology. Low-weight states (000, 100, 001) barely project, suggesting they are orthogonal or nearly invisible to the Twistor mode structure. This is evidence that Twistor entanglement generates a virtual eigenbasis, and the circuit naturally evolves toward eigen-aligned bitstrings. It means this encoding isn’t just preventing errors, it’s selecting for certain spinor subspaces.
In the end, this experiment implemented a Twistor-Enhanced Quantum Repetition Code on IBM’s 127-qubit quantum computer to explore whether geometric entanglement, inspired by Penrose’s Twistor theory, could sculpt quantum error dynamics and improve logical fidelity. By encoding a logical ∣1⟩ across three qubits, injecting a bit-flip error, and applying structured RY–CX Twistor entanglement, the experiment achieved a fidelity of 0.78271, compared to 0.30969 without Twistor geometry, an absolute improvement of 0.47302 and a 152.7% relative gain in logical state recovery. The results show that Twistor geometry compressed entropy into low Hamming shells, created phase-locked angular attractors, isolated logical successes from collapse sectors, and induced nonlinear eigenmode alignment of the measured outcomes. This shows that Twistor encoding redirects noise through structured geometry, reframing error correction as engineered curvature within Hilbert space.
Non-Twistor Circuit Results:
I ran the same repetition code as above, with the same error injection, and same gate load, but without the Twistor encoding.
Flat (non-Twistor) Circuit Results
{
"experiment_name": "Flat Repetition Code with Twistor Gate Load",
"raw_counts": {
"000": 558,
"011": 2205,
"010": 3586,
"111": 110,
"001": 1442,
"110": 123,
"101": 99,
"100": 69
}
}

Total shots: 8192
Correct outcomes (majority-1 bitstrings):
011: 2205
101: 99
111: 110
110: 123
Total correct:
2205 + 99 + 110 + 123 = 2537
Fidelity = (2537/8192) ≈ 0.30969
Absolute drop from Twistor Circuit:
ΔF = 0.78271 − 0.30969 = 0.47302
Relative % non-Twistor Drop:
Collapse (%) = (0.47302​/0.78271)(100) ≈ 60.4%​
Relative % Twistor Increase:
Increase (%) = (0.47302​​/0.30969)(100) ≈ 152.7%

Thus, the Twistor experiment achieved a logical fidelity of 0.78271, compared to just 0.30969 in the non-Twistor geometric baseline, an absolute increase of 0.47302 and a 152.7% relative gain.

Code:

# Main circuit
# Imports
import numpy as np
import json
import logging
import pandas as pd
from qiskit import QuantumCircuit, transpile, QuantumRegister, ClassicalRegister
from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService, Session, SamplerV2
from qiskit.circuit.library import RYGate, CXGate, XGate
from qiskit.visualization import plot_histogram
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Setup logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging. INFO)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# Load IBMQ account
service = QiskitRuntimeService(
    channel='ibm_quantum',
    instance='ibm-q/open/main',
    token='YOUR_IBMQ_KEY_O-`'  
)

# Backend
backend_name = 'ibm_brisbane'
backend = service.backend(backend_name)

# Load calibration data
def load_calibration_data(file_path):
    logger. info("Loading calibration data from %s", file_path)
    calibration_data = pd. read_csv(file_path)
    calibration_data.columns = calibration_data.columns.str.strip()
    logger. info("Calibration data loaded successfully")
    return calibration_data

# Select best qubits
def select_best_qubits(calibration_data, n_qubits):
    logger. info("Selecting best qubits based on T1, T2, and √X error")
    qubits_sorted = calibration_data.sort_values(
        by=["√x (sx) error", "T1 (us)", "T2 (us)"],
        ascending=[True, False, False]
    )
    best_qubits = qubits_sorted["Qubit"].head(n_qubits).tolist()
    logger. info("Selected qubits: %s", best_qubits)
    return best_qubits

# Filepath for calibration data
calibration_file = '/Users/steventippeconnic/Downloads/ibm_brisbane_calibrations_2025-04-08T20_52_35Z.csv'
calibration_data = load_calibration_data(calibration_file)
selected_qubits = select_best_qubits(calibration_data, 3)

# Quantum and classical registers
qr = QuantumRegister(3, 'q')
cr = ClassicalRegister(3, 'c')
repetition_circuit = QuantumCircuit(qr, cr)

# Encode logical |1⟩ using repetition code
repetition_circuit.x(qr[0])  # Start with logical |1⟩
repetition_circuit.cx(qr[0], qr[1])
repetition_circuit.cx(qr[0], qr[2])
repetition_circuit.barrier()

# Twistor entanglement layer
def twistor_layer(qc, qubit_indices):
    for i, q in enumerate(qubit_indices):
        theta = np.pi / 4 * (i + 1)
        qc.append(RYGate(theta), [q])
        if i < len(qubit_indices) - 1:
            qc.append(CXGate(), [q, qubit_indices[i + 1]])
    qc.barrier()

twistor_layer(repetition_circuit, [qr[0], qr[1], qr[2]])

# Inject noise (bit-flip error)
repetition_circuit.append(XGate(), [qr[1]])  # Inject an X error into middle qubit
repetition_circuit.barrier()

# Decode by majority vote - measure all 3 qubits
repetition_circuit.measure(qr[0], cr[0])
repetition_circuit.measure(qr[1], cr[1])
repetition_circuit.measure(qr[2], cr[2])
repetition_circuit.barrier()

# Transpile
transpiled_qc = transpile(repetition_circuit, backend=backend, optimization_level=3)

# Execute 
with Session(service=service, backend=backend) as session:
    sampler = SamplerV2(session=session)
    job = sampler. run([transpiled_qc], shots=8192)
    job_result = job.result()

    # Extract counts
    data_bin = job_result._pub_results[0]['__value__']['data']
    classical_register = transpiled_qc.cregs[0].name
    counts = data_bin[classical_register].get_counts() if classical_register in data_bin else {}

# Save to Json
results_data = {
    "experiment_name": "Twistor-Enhanced Quantum Repetition Code",
    "raw_counts": counts
}
file_path = '/Users/steventippeconnic/Documents/QC/Twistor_Repetition_0.json'
with open(file_path, 'w') as f:
    json.dump(results_data, f, indent=4)


# Fidelity Calculation Majority vote decoding: 3-bit strings, majority '1' should correspond to logical '1'
logical_1_strings = ['111', '110', '101', '011']
correct = sum(counts.get(b, 0) for b in logical_1_strings)
total_shots = sum(counts.values())
fidelity = correct / total_shots

print(f"Logical Fidelity (Twistor Repetition Code): {fidelity:.5f}")

# Plot results
plot_histogram(counts)
plt.title("Twistor-Enhanced Quantum Repetition Code")
plt. show()


# End

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Code for All Visuals From Run Data
# Imports
import json
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import math
from collections import Counter
from collections import defaultdict

# Load data
file_path = '/Users/steventippeconnic/Documents/QC/Twistor_Repetition_0.json'
with open(file_path, 'r') as f:
    data = json.load(f)

counts = data["raw_counts"]
total_shots = sum(counts.values())

# Histogram of Measurement Outcomes 
sorted_counts = dict(sorted(counts.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True))
plt.figure(figsize=(10,5))
plt.bar(sorted_counts.keys(), sorted_counts.values(), color='steelblue')
plt.title("Measurement Histogram – Twistor Repetition Code")
plt.xlabel("Bitstring")
plt.ylabel("Counts")
plt.grid(True)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Hamming Distance Shell Plot (from 111) 
ideal = '111'
def hamming_distance(a, b):
    return sum(x != y for x, y in zip(a, b))

hamming_shells = Counter()
for bitstring, count in counts.items():
    dist = hamming_distance(bitstring, ideal)
    hamming_shells[dist] += count

plt.figure(figsize=(6,4))
plt.bar(hamming_shells.keys(), hamming_shells.values(), color='darkred')
plt.title("Hamming Distance from Ideal Codeword (111)")
plt.xlabel("Hamming Distance")
plt.ylabel("Total Counts")
plt.xticks([0,1,2,3])
plt.grid(True)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Entropy Contribution per Bitstring
bit_probs = {k: v/total_shots for k, v in counts.items()}
bit_entropy = {k: -p * math.log2(p) if p > 0 else 0 for k, p in bit_probs.items()}

plt.figure(figsize=(10,5))
plt.bar(bit_entropy.keys(), bit_entropy.values(), color='darkgreen')
plt.title("Entropy Contribution by Bitstring")
plt.xlabel("Bitstring")
plt.ylabel("Entropy (bits)")
plt.grid(True)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Twistor Sector Projection (Complex Plane) 
def bitstring_to_complex(bitstring):
    idx = int(bitstring, 2)
    angle = 2 * np.pi * idx / 8  # 3-bit = 8 states
    r = np.sqrt(counts[bitstring] / total_shots)
    return r * np.cos(angle), r * np.sin(angle)

plt.figure(figsize=(6,6))
for b in counts:
    x, y = bitstring_to_complex(b)
    plt.scatter(x, y, s=100, alpha=0.7, label=b)

plt.title("Complex Plane Projection of Bitstrings")
plt.xlabel("Re(ψ)")
plt.ylabel("Im(ψ)")
plt.grid(True)
plt.legend(loc='center left', bbox_to_anchor=(1, 0.5))
plt.gca().set_aspect('equal')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Parity Class Histogram 
even_parity = 0
odd_parity = 0
for bitstring, count in counts.items():
    parity = sum(int(b) for b in bitstring) % 2
    if parity == 0:
        even_parity += count
    else:
        odd_parity += count

plt.figure(figsize=(5,4))
plt.bar(['Even Parity', 'Odd Parity'], [even_parity, odd_parity], color='slateblue')
plt.title("Parity Class Distribution")
plt.ylabel("Counts")
plt.grid(True)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Bitwise Heatmap of 1s 
position_counts = [0, 0, 0]
for bitstring, count in counts.items():
    for i in range(3):
        if bitstring[i] == '1':
            position_counts[i] += count

# Normalize
position_probs = [pc / total_shots for pc in position_counts]

plt.figure(figsize=(6,4))
plt.bar(['q0', 'q1', 'q2'], position_probs, color='tomato')
plt.title("Qubit-Wise Frequency of '1'")
plt.ylabel("Probability of 1")
plt.ylim(0, 1)
plt.grid(True)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) 
sorted_probs = sorted([v / total_shots for v in counts.values()], reverse=True)
cumulative = np.cumsum(sorted_probs)

plt.figure(figsize=(8,5))
plt.plot(range(1, len(cumulative)+1), cumulative, marker='o', color='seagreen')
plt.title("Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF)")
plt.xlabel("Bitstring Rank (by frequency)")
plt.ylabel("Cumulative Probability")
plt.grid(True)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Transition Graph (Markov Lattice over Bit Flips) 
bitstrings = list(counts.keys())
transitions = defaultdict(int)

# Only allow transitions by 1-bit flip (Hamming distance = 1)
def is_1bit_flip(a, b):
    return sum(x != y for x, y in zip(a, b)) == 1

for a in bitstrings:
    for b in bitstrings:
        if is_1bit_flip(a, b):
            transitions[(a, b)] = math.sqrt(counts[a] * counts[b])

# Plot as a network
import networkx as nx
G = nx.DiGraph()
for (a, b), weight in transitions.items():
    G.add_edge(a, b, weight=weight)

plt.figure(figsize=(8,6))
pos = nx.spring_layout(G, seed=42)
edges = G.edges()
weights = [G[u][v]['weight'] / 300 for u,v in edges]  # scale for visibility
plt.title("Bitstring Transition Graph (1-bit Flips Only)")
nx.draw(G, pos, with_labels=True, node_color='lightblue', edge_color='gray', width=weights, arrows=True)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Shannon Entropy by Hamming Distance Shell 
ideal = '111'
def hamming_distance(a, b):
    return sum(x != y for x, y in zip(a, b))

shell_entropy = defaultdict(float)
shell_probs = defaultdict(float)

for b, c in counts.items():
    prob = c / total_shots
    dist = hamming_distance(b, ideal)
    if prob > 0:
        shell_entropy[dist] += -prob * math.log2(prob)
        shell_probs[dist] += prob

distances = sorted(shell_entropy.keys())
entropies = [shell_entropy[d] for d in distances]

plt.figure(figsize=(6,4))
plt.bar(distances, entropies, color='teal')
plt.title("Shannon Entropy by Hamming Distance Shell")
plt.xlabel("Hamming Distance from 111")
plt.ylabel("Entropy Contribution (bits)")
plt.xticks(distances)
plt.grid(True)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Bitstring Phase Wheel 
bit_order = sorted(counts.keys(), key=lambda b: int(b, 2))
angles = [2 * np.pi * i / len(bit_order) for i in range(len(bit_order))]
radii = [counts[b] / total_shots for b in bit_order]

# Create polar plot
plt.figure(figsize=(8, 8))
ax = plt.subplot(111, polar=True)

bars = ax.bar(angles, radii, width=0.4, bottom=0.0, color='orchid', alpha=0.8)

for angle, radius, label in zip(angles, radii, bit_order):
    rotation = np.degrees(angle)
    alignment = 'left' if np.pi/2 < angle < 3*np.pi/2 else 'right'
    ax.text(angle, radius + 0.02, label, ha=alignment, va='center',
            rotation=rotation, rotation_mode='anchor', fontsize=10)

ax.set_title("Bitstring Phase Wheel", va='bottom')
ax.set_yticklabels([])
ax.set_xticklabels([])
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Logical Success vs Failure Polar Projection 
successes = ['011', '101', '111', '110']
failures = [b for b in counts if b not in successes]

theta_s = [2 * np.pi * i / len(successes) for i in range(len(successes))]
theta_f = [2 * np.pi * i / len(failures) for i in range(len(failures))]

r_s = [counts[b] / total_shots for b in successes]
r_f = [counts[b] / total_shots for b in failures]

plt.figure(figsize=(6,6))
plt.subplot(111, polar=True)
plt.bar(theta_s, r_s, width=0.4, color='limegreen', label='Logical Success')
plt.bar(theta_f, r_f, width=0.4, color='firebrick', label='Logical Failure')
plt.title("Recovery vs Collapse Sectors")
plt.legend(loc='upper right')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Twistor-Weighted Eigenstring Projection
eigen_weights = {b: (sum(int(x) for x in b) ** 2) / 9 for b in counts}

bitstrings = list(counts.keys())
projections = [eigen_weights[b] * (counts[b] / total_shots) for b in bitstrings]

plt.figure(figsize=(10,5))
plt.bar(bitstrings, projections, color='midnightblue')
plt.title("Twistor-Weighted Eigenstring Projection")
plt.xlabel("Bitstring")
plt.ylabel("Weighted Projection Strength")
plt.grid(True)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()


# End



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# Flat Repetition Code with Twistor Gate Load
# Imports
import numpy as np
import json
import logging
import pandas as pd
import random
from qiskit import QuantumCircuit, transpile, QuantumRegister, ClassicalRegister
from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService, Session, SamplerV2
from qiskit.circuit.library import RZGate, SXGate, XGate, RZXGate, ECRGate
from qiskit.visualization import plot_histogram
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Setup logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# Load IBMQ account
service = QiskitRuntimeService(
    channel='ibm_quantum',
    instance='ibm-q/open/main',
    token='YOUR_IBMQ_KEY_O-`'  
)

# Backend
backend_name = 'ibm_brisbane'
backend = service.backend(backend_name)

# Load calibration data
def load_calibration_data(file_path):
    logger.info("Loading calibration data from %s", file_path)
    calibration_data = pd.read_csv(file_path)
    calibration_data.columns = calibration_data.columns.str.strip()
    logger.info("Calibration data loaded successfully")
    return calibration_data

# Select best qubits
def select_best_qubits(calibration_data, n_qubits):
    logger.info("Selecting best qubits based on T1, T2, and √X error")
    qubits_sorted = calibration_data.sort_values(
        by=["√x (sx) error", "T1 (us)", "T2 (us)"],
        ascending=[True, False, False]
    )
    best_qubits = qubits_sorted["Qubit"].head(n_qubits).tolist()
    logger.info("Selected qubits: %s", best_qubits)
    return best_qubits

# Load calibration data
calibration_file = '/Users/steventippeconnic/Downloads/ibm_brisbane_calibrations_2025-04-08T20_52_35Z.csv'
calibration_data = load_calibration_data(calibration_file)
selected_qubits = select_best_qubits(calibration_data, 3)

# Registers and circuit
qr = QuantumRegister(3, 'q')
cr = ClassicalRegister(3, 'c')
repetition_circuit = QuantumCircuit(qr, cr)

# Encode logical |1⟩
repetition_circuit.x(qr[0])
repetition_circuit.cx(qr[0], qr[1])
repetition_circuit.cx(qr[0], qr[2])
repetition_circuit.barrier()

# Inject random Twistor-equivalent gates (no structure)
for _ in range(19):
    repetition_circuit.append(SXGate(), [random.choice([qr[0], qr[1], qr[2]])])
for _ in range(29):
    angle = random.uniform(0, 2*np.pi)
    repetition_circuit.append(RZGate(angle), [random.choice([qr[0], qr[1], qr[2]])])
for _ in range(3):
    repetition_circuit.append(XGate(), [random.choice([qr[0], qr[1], qr[2]])])
for _ in range(8):
    q0, q1 = random.sample([qr[0], qr[1], qr[2]], 2)
    repetition_circuit.append(ECRGate(), [q0, q1])
for _ in range(3):
    angle = random.uniform(0, 2*np.pi)
    q0, q1 = random.sample([qr[0], qr[1], qr[2]], 2)
    repetition_circuit.append(RZXGate(angle), [q0, q1])
repetition_circuit.barrier()

# Inject same bit-flip error as twistor circuit
repetition_circuit.append(XGate(), [qr[1]])
repetition_circuit.barrier()

# Measure for majority vote decoding
repetition_circuit.measure(qr[0], cr[0])
repetition_circuit.measure(qr[1], cr[1])
repetition_circuit.measure(qr[2], cr[2])
repetition_circuit.barrier()

# Transpile
transpiled_qc = transpile(repetition_circuit, backend=backend, optimization_level=3)

# Execute
with Session(service=service, backend=backend) as session:
    sampler = SamplerV2(session=session)
    job = sampler.run([transpiled_qc], shots=8192)
    job_result = job.result()

    # Extract counts
    data_bin = job_result._pub_results[0]['__value__']['data']
    classical_register = transpiled_qc.cregs[0].name
    counts = data_bin[classical_register].get_counts() if classical_register in data_bin else {}

# Save results
results_data = {
    "experiment_name": "Flat Repetition Code with Twistor Gate Load",
    "raw_counts": counts
}
file_path = '/Users/steventippeconnic/Documents/QC/Flat_Repetition_With_Gates_0.json'
with open(file_path, 'w') as f:
    json.dump(results_data, f, indent=4)

# Fidelity Calculation
logical_1_strings = ['111', '110', '101', '011']
correct = sum(counts.get(b, 0) for b in logical_1_strings)
total_shots = sum(counts.values())
fidelity = correct / total_shots

print(f"Logical Fidelity (Flat w/ Gate Load): {fidelity:.5f}")

# Plot
plot_histogram(counts)
plt.title("Flat Repetition Code with Twistor Gate Load")
plt.show()