Lesson 121: Hamiltonian abstraction guards
Focus
Prefer falsifiable hypotheses (shot count, fidelity floor) over buzzword proofs-of-concepts. Token Hamiltonian abstraction guards:121 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Hamiltonian abstraction guards · drill v1 · spin
58428. - Habit: pair each job with shot budget, mitigation profile, and a calibration fingerprint you could paste.
- Guardrail: write one line about where classical cost dominated the timeline.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Readout RACI capsule
readout_bundle_id: RO-121
mitigation_modes:
- zne_extrap_v0
- symmetry_confirm
default_discard_thresh: 1.08
owner_hotline: roc-oncall-bas
lesson_ref: LX-121
Practice
Practice Attach rollback notes if transpilation swaps exceed a chosen depth ceiling. — 121 Bump literals mindset by 17.