Quantum Statistical Memory Advantage Reveals Predictive Structure in Chaotic Invariant Measures
Abstract
Long-horizon prediction of a chaotic system is governed by fidelity to its invariant measure, and which parts of that measure a learned predictor needs is a physical question not known in advance. We establish a quantum statistical memory advantage for interrogating it. A quantum statistical prior (Q-Prior), trained once on classical data, stores an efficiently preparable k-point marginal in polynomially many circuit parameters against exponentially many for explicit tabulation. Collective Bell measurements on two copies then estimate any post hoc Pauli-expectation magnitude at a copy cost independent of register size, with a worst-case exponential separation from single-copy protocols. A single Bell dataset supports an entire family of candidate observables at a cost growing only logarithmically in the family size, so an exponentially large candidate space stays open for later analysis. We implement the protocol on IQM superconducting processors with two-copy registers of up to 54 physical-qubit chips. We apply this to turbulent channel flow and ERA5 forecasting, resolving invariant structure by statistical sector and order. Turbulent phase correlations persist through eighth order, while most predictive gains arise from low-order constraints; in ERA5, planetary-wave phase coherence complements covariance regularisation, identifying distinct low-order sectors with predictive value. Quantum statistical memory is therefore both a near-term computational resource and an instrument for identifying which invariant structures matter for prediction.
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BibTeX
@misc{wang2026quantum,
title = {{Quantum Statistical Memory Advantage Reveals Predictive Structure in Chaotic Invariant Measures}},
author = {Maida Wang and Xiao Xue and Minh Chung and Peter V. Coveney},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.13422},
eprint = {2606.13422},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13422},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Quantum Statistical Memory Advantage Reveals Predictive Structure in Chaotic Invariant Measures
AU - Maida Wang
AU - Xiao Xue
AU - Minh Chung
AU - Peter V. Coveney
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/05
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.13422
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13422
AB - Long-horizon prediction of a chaotic system is governed by fidelity to its invariant measure, and which parts of that measure a learned predictor needs is a physical question not known in advance. We establish a quantum statistical memory advantage for interrogating it. A quantum statistical prior (Q-Prior), trained once on classical data, stores an efficiently preparable k-point marginal in polynomially many circuit parameters against exponentially many for explicit tabulation. Collective Bell measurements on two copies then estimate any post hoc Pauli-expectation magnitude at a copy cost independent of register size, with a worst-case exponential separation from single-copy protocols. A single Bell dataset supports an entire family of candidate observables at a cost growing only logarithmically in the family size, so an exponentially large candidate space stays open for later analysis. We implement the protocol on IQM superconducting processors with two-copy registers of up to 54 physical-qubit chips. We apply this to turbulent channel flow and ERA5 forecasting, resolving invariant structure by statistical sector and order. Turbulent phase correlations persist through eighth order, while most predictive gains arise from low-order constraints; in ERA5, planetary-wave phase coherence complements covariance regularisation, identifying distinct low-order sectors with predictive value. Quantum statistical memory is therefore both a near-term computational resource and an instrument for identifying which invariant structures matter for prediction.
ER -