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Tushar Pandey

A quantum reservoir computing architecture is presented for forecasting chaotic dynamical systems, accompanied by a protocol to assess the utility of its high-dimensional quantum features. The architecture demonstrates stable prediction error and robust feature space conditioning as system complexity and qubit count increase, contrasting with a classical reservoir network.

Key insights

• The QRC's feature vectors, derived from computational-basis probabilities on a simplex, lead to a Gram matrix with a condition number that remains bounded and stable (or even decreases) as the qubit count increases.
• The matched-complexity scaling protocol effectively diagnoses whether performance improvements stem from genuine architectural strengths or simply from an inflated feature space with 'spare capacity'.
• QRC can maintain stable prediction error and robust feature space conditioning even as both the problem dimension and qubit count grow, offering an architectural explanation for its consistent behavior.

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