Research design · illustrative boundary

Proposed experiments

Canonical-shaped, versioned experiment proposals for criticism. Every card is explicitly unadmitted: it is not a run, result, evidence record, ranking, or production plan.

Conjectural origin story: volumetric recurrent calculation is presented as a design-origin hypothesis only. Read the boundary statement.

illustrative-unadmitted · revision 1 · physical · falsification

Chiral-nematic typed-junction 2-to-2 interaction-net rewrite

Prepare the same typed local pair and boundary repeatedly, blind the operator to remote graph context, apply the declared global drive, and test whether the output topology is invariant to remote context.

Strongest falsifier

Output class changes systematically with remote context while local pair and boundary are held fixed.

Equipment capabilities

  • required: chiral-nematic sample cell with controlled electric drive (any-one, quantity 1)
  • required: calibrated multiview polarized microscopy (any-one, quantity 1)

Agent-readable JSON

illustrative-unadmitted · revision 1 · physical · discrimination

Graphene complementary-frequency dense matrix multiplication

Encode two finite matrices into complementary optical frequencies, measure the nonlinear mixing output, and compare against an independently computed dense product under randomized phase and amplitude controls.

Strongest falsifier

The same product signature remains when the nonlinear interaction is ablated.

Equipment capabilities

  • required: phase-stable complementary-frequency source (any-one, quantity 1)
  • required: complex spectral readout with calibrated dynamic range (any-one, quantity 1)

Agent-readable JSON

illustrative-unadmitted · revision 1 · physical · characterization

OAM and multimode conservation under controlled interaction

Prepare known input OAM and transverse modes, apply a declared interaction, and compare input and output modal charge and energy balances with phase-resolved readout.

Strongest falsifier

Residual modal charge changes beyond uncertainty or leakage tracks an unmodeled interaction channel.

Equipment capabilities

  • required: phase-resolved OAM and multimode sorter (any-one, quantity 1)

Agent-readable JSON

illustrative-unadmitted · revision 1 · physical · discrimination

OAM angular collision/interference and contraction variant

Collide two independently prepared OAM/multimode wave packets with controlled relative phase and angle, and discriminate a local angular-interference/contraction rule from linear superposition and detector artifacts.

Strongest falsifier

The signature is fully explained by linear interference, alignment, or detector cross-talk.

Equipment capabilities

  • required: phase-resolved multimode field analyzer (any-one, quantity 1)

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illustrative-unadmitted · revision 1 · physical · calibration

Femtosecond-written perovskite/LiNbO3/chalcogenide exact optical computing cell

Write the same finite optical circuit separately in perovskite, LiNbO3, and chalcogenide variants, inject enumerated basis states, and compare decoded outputs against an exact symbolic oracle with calibrated phase and loss accounting.

Strongest falsifier

A basis-state output cannot be distinguished from a bypass or crosstalk model at the declared precision.

Equipment capabilities

  • required: femtosecond direct-write platform with metrology (any-one, quantity 1)

Agent-readable JSON

illustrative-unadmitted · revision 1 · hybrid · falsification

Femtosecond-written volumetric optical computing volume

Address separated written paths across a finite 3-D volume, apply a declared optical operator, and test whether state readout remains separable and repeatable across depth and recurrence passes.

Strongest falsifier

Feedback-off or planar controls reproduce the proposed volumetric recurrence signature.

Equipment capabilities

  • required: 3-D femtosecond writing and depth metrology (any-one, quantity 1)
  • alternative: depth-resolved complex optical readout (any-one, quantity 1)
  • alternative: phase-resolved modal volume readout (any-one, quantity 1)

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illustrative-unadmitted · revision 1 · hybrid · characterization

Adaptive recurrent mixed-halide perovskite operator

Apply a fixed sequence of optical inputs to a mixed-halide perovskite loop while an explicit controller adapts one declared parameter, then distinguish recurrent state adaptation from photochemical drift.

Strongest falsifier

A drift-only model explains the same sequence and state dependence without adaptive updates.

Equipment capabilities

  • required: time-resolved calibrated spectral readout (any-one, quantity 1)

Agent-readable JSON

illustrative-unadmitted · revision 1 · physical · discrimination

RF/acoustic-controlled multimode optical operator

Drive a multimode optical medium with independently logged RF and acoustic controls, reconstruct the complex mode-to-mode operator, and compare it with a field-off and single-control model.

Strongest falsifier

An ablated or linear model predicts the joint output within the same tolerance.

Equipment capabilities

  • required: independently phase-logged RF and acoustic controller (any-one, quantity 1)
  • optional: independent RF phase pickup (at-least-n, quantity 2)
  • optional: independent acoustic delay pickup (at-least-n, quantity 2)

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illustrative-unadmitted · revision 1 · simulation · replication

3-D coincidence-addressed tensor FPGA

Generate a finite tensor workload, route operands through the declared 3-D coincidence address, and compare FPGA outputs and resource traces with an exact software oracle and a randomized address control.

Strongest falsifier

A declared coincidence address produces a dropped, duplicated, or order-dependent tensor contribution.

Equipment capabilities

  • required: FPGA with deterministic cycle/event trace (any-one, quantity 1)

Agent-readable JSON

illustrative-unadmitted · revision 1 · analytical · discrimination

Rust exact oracle and HVM symbolic reduction for amplitudes at infinity

Enumerate finite amplitude expressions in a Rust exact oracle, reduce the corresponding HVM symbolic terms, and compare normalized limits and failure cases without treating a rewrite trace as a physical result.

Strongest falsifier

The symbolic system returns a finite amplitude where the exact oracle proves divergence or undefined normalization.

Equipment capabilities

  • required: reproducible Rust exact arithmetic toolchain (any-one, quantity 1)

Agent-readable JSON