QC-MM: A Metadata and Schema Model for Traceable Quantum-Circuit Experiments
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Abstract
Context: Modern quantum-computing experimentation generates heterogeneous, context-dependent execution data whose scientific value depends on preserving calibration state, compilation decisions, and run outcomes in a traceable and repository-ready form. In the NISQ era, probabilistic outputs, time-varying hardware conditions, and opaque transpilation pipelines create a data-management problem that directly affects reproducibility, traceability, and long-term reuse of experimental records. Goal: This paper aims to address this gap by proposing a specialized metadata and schema model for managing quantum-circuit execution data as governed, machine-interpretable, and evolvable repository artifacts. Proposal: We propose QC-MM, a platform-agnostic metadata model for capturing, validating, and relating contextual evidence of quantum-circuit experiments. The model integrates time-indexed calibration binding, transpilation traceability, lightweight provenance links, validation rules, and controlled schema evolution through a JSON Schema specification. Results: The evaluation follows a multi-scenario protocol and shows that QC-MM captures dynamic calibration context in IBM Quantum Cloud, remains interoperable through a local SpinQ NMR device, and makes transpilation effects traceable through structured records. It also supports repeated-run statistical reporting and links compilation decisions to execution outcomes, including circuit-depth reductions and changes in an estimated fidelity proxy under different optimization settings. Conclusions: QC-MM provides a specialized data-modeling and schema-governance foundation for traceable quantum-experiment repositories. Beyond improving reproducibility-oriented reporting, the proposal contributes to metadata validation, controlled schema evolution, and repository-oriented management of contextual experimental data.
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OpenAlex topics: Scientific Computing and Data Management · Machine Learning in Materials Science · Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
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Affiliations
Departmento de Ciencias de la Computación e Informática, QuantumLab-DCI, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco 4811230, Chile
LIFIA, Facultad de Informática/CICPBA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires 1900, Argentina
Funding
ANID–Chile, Fondecyt Iniciación
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