Retained Quantum Records: Recovery Limits and Control-Dependent Formation Costs
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Retained measurement records constrain recoverability, but their formation also depends on the available physical controls. We give exact, constructively attained answers to both questions in two specified models. For a balanced nondemolition qubit process with actual binary observer memories unavailable to the decoder, we determine the maximum recovery compatible with average readout accuracy and pair agreement. The finite-record solution includes its feasible region and a common memory-writing and recovery process, without assuming exchangeability of observed records. Under a complete conditional-pairwise-independence promise at fixed informative accuracy, the optimal coherence has a sharp inverse-square-root asymptotic; fully conditionally independent records instead give exponential decay. Thus identical single-record and pair-record calibrations need not justify the product-law recovery bound. We then fix a logical code in four spin-3/2 systems and sequential diagonal contacts with exact controlled-swap endpoints. Hard budgets for net contact action and added spectral control charge yield an exact peak-excursion frontier within a declared quadratic-plus-cubic control class. A single positive-amplitude preparation jointly attains the record, recovery and occupation requirements, connecting the two results through an exact finite-dimensional optimization. A closed three-record example distinguishes fixed complete records from fixed averaged data. Separately calibrated imperfect contacts admit one-sided finite-error extensions. Together, the results characterize both informational compatibility and control-dependent formation through common attaining apparatuses.
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