An Evidence-First Reproducibility Capsule for NISQ Benchmarking

This deposit contains a reproducible evidence capsule for NISQ benchmarking on real IBM quantum hardware. The capsule combines an author-preserved evaluation plan, content-addressed logical OpenQASM workload identity, provider job-id provenance, negative controls, public ancillary JSON data, replay scripts, manuscript figures, and summary analyses. Its primary contribution is a verifiable evidence standard for NISQ experiments and an empirical demonstration of that standard. It does not claim quantum advantage, fault tolerance, provider-signed attestation, or multi-vendor universality.