Twistor‑Casimir Coupling in a Discrete Null Lattice on a 133-Qubit Quantum Computer

The Per‑qubit 1 probability heat‑map above (code on Qwork) shows the 7 x 7 lattice map uncovers a pronounced vertical asymmetry, the entire top mirror row (r = 0) is markedly cold, below 0.25 everywhere except at column 6, while excitation climbs steadily with depth, plateauing near 0.45 in the bottom three rows. This gradient visualizes how the ±ψ boundary phases bias energy flow, the top plate acts as a phase‑selective absorber, passing only those modes that satisfy the dual‑diagonal φ constraint (evident in the single hot pixel at (1, 6)). The bottom plate accumulates almost uniform half‑population, consistent with its role as a lossier reflector in our asymmetric boundary set‑up. The chequerboard patch of cooler pixels inside the core (rows 1 - 3, cols 1 - 4) coincides with the intersection of the two null diagonals, meaning that where the two shear fields overlap they cancel local excitations, reinforcing the thought of Twistor‑driven interference corridors.
The Conditional coherence ζ_c = P(top=1 | bottom=1) above (code on Qwork) plots ζ_c to isolate the plate‑to‑plate conversion efficiency for each channel. Bright corridors (columns 1, 3, 6) exhibit ζ in the 0.28 - 0.40 range, a four‑to‑six‑fold boost over dark columns 0 and 2 (< 0.08). Once a bottom‑mirror excitation appears in a Twistor‑aligned column, the chance that the top mirror fires in the same shot can be as high as 40%, whereas in a misaligned lane the top mirror almost never responds. This metric pinpoints where the lattice behaves like an effective Casimir cavity, the φ shear not only focuses correlations but also dramatically upgrades the quantum‑coherence throughput of those channels.
The Vertical excitation gradient above (code below) shows a row‑averaged profile that quantifies the gradient hinted at in the heat‑map, average P(|1〉) rises from ≈ 0.18 at the top mirror to ≈ 0.44 at the bottom. The near‑linear climb up to row 3 followed by a gentle saturation supports a simple picture of downward drift of excitation probability, virtual photons preferentially propagate toward the lower plate, as expected when that plate has an opposite ψ sign and hence an attractive phase‑potential. The gradient shows no abrupt jumps at the rows where the two null diagonals cross, Twistor steering therefore governs lateral channel selection without disrupting the monotonic vertical energy bias introduced by the mirrors.
The Correlation of ρ_c with single‑plate excitation P_top above (code on Qwork) is a scatter plot, fitted with a least‑squares line (r ≈ +1.00). It shows an almost perfect linear relationship between how often the top mirror alone is excited and how often a full pair event occurs in that column. This tight coupling implies that, under the asymmetric mirror phases, the limiting factor for pair creation is top‑plate availability, once the top qubit is primed, bottom‑mirror coherence is sufficiently high that pair probability scales almost proportionally. Top excitation by itself does not guarantee high ρ_c, but, across the spectrum of columns, differences in top‑plate readiness explain nearly all variance in ρ_c. The φ shear thus functions more like a gatekeeper that modulates top‑plate activation than like a post‑activation interferometer, aligning with Penrose’s view that Twistors set initial boundary conditions for null rays rather than altering them mid‑flight.
In the end, this experiment embedded a dual‑diagonal Twistor shear (±φ = π⁄8) and asymmetric mirror phases (±ψ = π⁄4) into a 7 x 7, 49‑qubit lattice on 'ibm_torino' and fired 32768 shots through a column‑wise CNOT vacuum ladder. The data show that mirror‑mirror |11〉 coincidences, the Casimir proxy, are globally suppressed to ≈ 0.09 yet strongly focused into three geodesic columns that coincide with the imposed null congruences, while transverse lanes are quenched six‑fold. Bright channels exhibit high two‑plate coherence (κ ≈ 1.2, ζ ≈ 0.4), dark ones almost none, and cross‑column correlations remain at noise level, confirming that each column acts as an independent null micro‑cavity rather than a 2‑D standing‑wave mode. A monotonic vertical excitation gradient indicates energy drift toward the lower ψ‑mirror, and a near‑perfect linear relation (r ≈ 1) between pair rate and top‑plate excitation shows that Twistor geometry governs initial plate activation rather than post‑activation interference. The experiment gives hardware evidence that Penrose‑style Twistors can steer vacuum energy flow and engineer anisotropic Casimir‑like forces inside a discrete quantum lattice, without requiring error‑correction rounds or deep circuits.

Code:

# Main circuit
# Imports 
import json, logging, pandas as pd
from math import pi
from qiskit import QuantumCircuit, QuantumRegister, ClassicalRegister, transpile
from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService, SamplerV2

logging.basicConfig(level=logging .INFO, format="%(levelname)s: %(message)s")
log = logging.getLogger("Twistor‑Casimir")

# IBMQ
TOKEN = "IBMQ_API_KEY_O-`"
INSTANCE = "IBMQ_CRN"

service  = QiskitRuntimeService(
    channel="ibm_cloud",
    token=TOKEN,
    instance=INSTANCE,
)
backend  = service.backend("ibm_torino")

# Calibration-Based Qubit Selection (49)
def best_qubits(cal_csv: str, n: int = 49) -> list[int]:
    """Order by √X error ↑ then T1 ↓ then T2 ↓ and return the first *n* qubits."""
    df = pd .read_csv(cal_csv)
    df.columns = df.columns.str.strip()
    ordered = df.sort_values(
        ["√x (sx) error", "T1 (us)", "T2 (us)"],
        ascending=[True, False, False],
    )
    winners = ordered["Qubit"].head(n).astype(int).tolist()
    log .info("Initial‑layout physical qubits: %s", winners)
    return winners

CAL_CSV = "/Users/steventippeconnic/Downloads/ibm_torino_calibrations_2025-05-12T17_23_16Z.csv"
physical_layout = best_qubits(CAL_CSV, 49)

# Registers 
d_q = QuantumRegister(49, "q")     # Lattice qubits (7 x 7 null grid)
c_q = ClassicalRegister(49, "c")   # One classical bit per qubit
qc  = QuantumCircuit(d_q, c_q, name="Twistor‑Casimir‑Null‑Lattice")

# Twistor phase imprint (dual null diagonals) 
phi = pi / 8                        # Twistor phase rotation
psi = pi / 4                        # Extra mirror‑boundary phase

def idx(r: int, c: int) -> int:
    """Map (row, col) -> flat qubit index in row‑major order."""
    return 7 * r + c

for r in range(7):
    for c in range(7):
        q = d_q[idx(r, c)]
        # null diagonals
        if r == c:
            qc.rz(+2 * phi, q)
        elif r + c == 6:
            qc.rz(-2 * phi, q)
        # Casimir mirror boundaries - top & bottom rows
        if r == 0:
            qc.rz(+psi, q)
        elif r == 6:
            qc.rz(-psi, q)
qc.barrier(label="Twistor + Casimir phases")

# Vacuum‑mode CX ladder (column‑wise) 
# Each column chain CX from top mirror -> … -> bottom mirror to correlate modes
for c in range(7):
    for r in range(6):                        # 0 - 5 links neighbor rows
        qc .cx(d_q[idx(r, c)], d_q[idx(r + 1, c)])
qc.barrier(label="Vacuum entangling ladder")

# Measurements 
for q in range(49):
    qc.measure(d_q[q], c_q[q])

# Transpile 
qc_t = transpile(
    qc,
    backend=backend,
    initial_layout=physical_layout,
    optimization_level=3,
)
log .info("Transpiled circuit depth: %d", qc_t.depth())

# Execute 
sampler = SamplerV2(mode=backend)
job     = sampler .run([qc_t], shots=32768)
result  = job.result()

# Counts 
creg_name = qc_t.cregs[0].name   # "c"
counts    = result[0].data.__getattribute__(creg_name).get_counts()

shots = sum(counts.values())

#  Boundary‑pair creation rate calculation 
def both_one(bitstring: str, i: int, j: int) -> bool:
    return bitstring[i] == "1" and bitstring[j] == "1"

pair_counts = {c: 0 for c in range(7)}  # column‑indexed
for bits, freq in counts.items():
    # Bit ordering 
    bits = bits[::-1]
    for col in range(7):
        top    = idx(0, col)
        bottom = idx(6, col)
        if both_one(bits, top, bottom):
            pair_counts[col] += freq

pair_rates = {k: v / shots for k, v in pair_counts.items()}

#  Json  
out = {
    "experiment_name": "Twistor‑Casimir Coupling (49‑qubit null lattice)",
    "twistor_phase_phi": float(phi),
    "mirror_phase_psi":  float(psi),
    "raw_counts":        counts,
    "boundary_pair_rates": pair_rates,
}
JSON_PATH = "/Users/steventippeconnic/Documents/Twistor_Casimir_Coupling_0.json"
with open(JSON_PATH, "w") as fp:
    json.dump(out, fp, indent=4)
log .info("Results JSON saved → %s", JSON_PATH)

#  Console summary 
log .info("Average boundary pair‑creation rate: %.5f", sum(pair_rates.values()) / 7)
for col, rate in pair_rates.items():
    log .info("  column %d : %.5f", col, rate)

# End







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# Code for all visuals from experiment JSON

# Twistor‑Casimir visual suite
import json, numpy as np, matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from pathlib import Path
from itertools import combinations
from scipy.stats import linregress

# Load counts 
FILE = Path('/Users/steventippeconnic/Documents/QC/Twistor_Casimir_Coupling_0.json')
raw  = json.loads(FILE.read_text())
counts = raw['raw_counts']
shots  = sum(counts.values())

# Map (row, col) -> flat index, row‑major
idx = lambda r, c: 7 * r + c

# Helper reduce a bit‑string to useful observables 
def parse_bits(bits):
    bits = bits[::-1]                 # little‑endian -> row‑major
    # single‑qubit mirror excitations
    top  = [int(bits[idx(0, c)]) for c in range(7)]
    bot  = [int(bits[idx(6, c)]) for c in range(7)]
    # pair map  π_c = 1 iff both mirrors in col c are |1⟩
    pair = [t & b for t, b in zip(top, bot)]
    return np.array(top), np.array(bot), np.array(pair)

tops, bots, pairs = [], [], []
for b, f in counts.items():
    t, b_, p = parse_bits(b)
    tops.append(np.repeat(t[None, :], f, axis=0))
    bots.append(np.repeat(b_[None, :], f, axis=0))
    pairs.append(np.repeat(p[None, :], f, axis=0))

tops  = np.vstack(tops)
bots  = np.vstack(bots)
pairs = np.vstack(pairs)

ρ       = pairs.mean(axis=0)              # pair‑creation rate  (7,)
p_top   = tops.mean(axis=0)               # single‑plate rates (7,)
p_bot   = bots.mean(axis=0)
product = p_top * p_bot                   # uncorrelated baseline

pair_rates = pairs.mean(axis=0)           # ρ_c
top_rates  = tops.mean(axis=0)
bot_rates  = bots.mean(axis=0)

pair_matrix = np.corrcoef(pairs.T)        # 7×7 cross correlations
multiplicity = pairs.sum(axis=1)          # number of columns with a pair per shot

# Boundary pair‑creation rate per column
plt.figure(figsize=(6,3))
plt.title('Boundary pair‑creation rate per column')
plt.bar(range(7), pair_rates)
plt.ylabel('ρ_c')
plt.xlabel('column')
plt.ylim(0, max(pair_rates)*1.15)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Mirror‑qubit 1 occupancy
plt.figure(figsize=(6,3))
plt.title('Mirror‑qubit 1 occupancy')
w = 0.35
plt.bar(np.arange(7)-w/2, top_rates, width=w, label='top')
plt.bar(np.arange(7)+w/2, bot_rates, width=w, label='bottom')
plt.ylabel('P(1)')
plt.xlabel('column')
plt.legend()
plt.ylim(0, 1)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Column‑to‑column pair‑event correlation
plt.figure(figsize=(4,4))
plt.title('Column‑to‑column pair‑event correlation')
plt.imshow(pair_matrix, cmap='coolwarm', vmin=-1, vmax=1)
plt.colorbar(label='Correlation')
plt.xticks(range(7)), plt.yticks(range(7))
plt.xlabel('Columns')
plt.ylabel('Columns')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Multiplicity of simultaneous mirror pairs
plt.figure(figsize=(6,3))
plt.title('Multiplicity of simultaneous mirror pairs')
plt.hist(multiplicity, bins=np.arange(0,8)-0.5, rwidth=0.9)
plt.xlabel('Columns with pair in a shot')
plt.ylabel('frequency')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Two‑plate coherence enhancement κ_c
κ = np.divide(ρ, product, out=np.zeros_like(ρ), where=product>0)

plt.figure(figsize=(6,3))
plt.title('Two‑plate coherence enhancement κ_c')
plt.bar(range(7), κ)
plt.axhline(1, color='k', linestyle='--', linewidth=0.7)
plt.ylabel('κ_c  =  ρ_c / (P_top P_bottom)')
plt.xlabel('column')
plt.ylim(0, κ.max()*1.15)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Joint mirror‑state distribution per column
states = np.zeros((7,4))  # order: 00,01,10,11
for b, f in counts.items():
    t, bo, _ = parse_bits(b)
    for c,(u,v) in enumerate(zip(t,bo)):
        s = (u<<1) | v     # encodes 00→0, 01→1, 10→2, 11→3
        states[c,s] += f
states /= shots

labels = ['00','01','10','11']
bottom = np.zeros(7)
plt.figure(figsize=(6,3))
plt.title('Joint mirror‑state distribution per column')
for i,lab in enumerate(labels):
    plt.bar(range(7), states[:,i], bottom=bottom, label=lab)
    bottom += states[:,i]
plt.xlabel('column')
plt.ylabel('probability')
plt.legend(ncol=4, fontsize='small')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Polar view of ρ_c (twistor null corridors)
θ = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, 7, endpoint=False)
plt.figure(figsize=(5,5))
ax = plt.subplot(111, projection='polar')
ax.set_title('Polar view of ρ_c (twistor null corridors)')
ax.bar(θ, ρ, width=2*np.pi/7, alpha=0.8)
ax.set_yticklabels([])
ax.set_theta_zero_location('N')
ax.set_theta_direction(-1)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Survival‑CDF of simultaneous pair multiplicit
multiplicity = pairs.sum(axis=1)
vals, counts_hist = np.unique(multiplicity, return_counts=True)
cdf = 1 - np.cumsum(counts_hist)/shots   # survival function

plt.figure(figsize=(5,3))
plt.title('Survival‑CDF of simultaneous pair multiplicity')
plt.loglog(vals, cdf, marker='o')
plt.xlabel('≥  m  columns with a pair')
plt.ylabel('P(M ≥ m)')
plt.grid(True, which='both', ls=':', lw=0.6)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

#  Raw counts for final visuals
tops, bots, whole = [], [], []
for b, f in counts.items():
    bits = b[::-1]                               # row‑major
    t    = np.array([int(bits[idx(0,c)]) for c in range(7)])
    bo   = np.array([int(bits[idx(6,c)]) for c in range(7)])
    w    = np.array([int(bit) for bit in bits])  # 49‑vector
    tops .append(np.repeat(t[None,:], f, 0))
    bots .append(np.repeat(bo[None,:],f, 0))
    whole.append(np.repeat(w[None,:], f, 0))

tops   = np.vstack(tops)
bots   = np.vstack(bots)
whole  = np.vstack(whole)

P_top  = tops.mean(axis=0)
P_bot  = bots.mean(axis=0)
ρ      = (tops & bots).mean(axis=0)              # pair‑creation

# Per‑qubit 1 probability across lattic
P_qubit = whole.mean(axis=0).reshape(7,7)

plt.figure(figsize=(4,4))
plt.title('Per‑qubit 1 probability across lattice')
plt.imshow(P_qubit, cmap='viridis', vmin=0, vmax=P_qubit.max())
plt.colorbar(label='P(1)')
plt.xticks(range(7)), plt.yticks(range(7))
plt.xlabel('Columns')
plt.ylabel('Columns')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Conditional P(top=1 | bottom=1)  per column
ζ = np.divide(ρ, P_bot, out=np.zeros_like(ρ), where=P_bot>0)

plt.figure(figsize=(6,3))
plt.title('Conditional P(top=1 | bottom=1)  per column')
plt.bar(range(7), ζ)
plt.ylabel('ζ_c')
plt.xlabel('column')
plt.ylim(0, ζ.max()*1.15)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Vertical excitation gradient across lattice rows
P_row = P_qubit.mean(axis=1)

plt.figure(figsize=(6,3))
plt.title('Vertical excitation gradient across lattice rows')
plt.plot(range(7), P_row, marker='o')
plt.xlabel('row (0 = top mirror)')
plt.ylabel('average P(1)')
plt.grid(alpha=0.5, ls=':')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# ρ_c  vs  P_top
slope, intercept, r, *_ = linregress(P_top, ρ)

plt.figure(figsize=(4.5,4))
plt.title(f'ρ_c  vs  P_top   (r = {r:+.2f})')
plt.scatter(P_top, ρ, s=60)
xfit = np.linspace(P_top.min(), P_top.max(), 100)
plt.plot(xfit, intercept + slope*xfit, color='k', lw=1)
plt.xlabel('P_top  (single‑mirror 1 rate)')
plt.ylabel('ρ_c  (pair‑creation)')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# End