Nuclear_Reactor_Monitoring_via_Quantum_Discord

Version 6.1 presents an expanded research framework for investigating whether quantum
correlations, specifically quantum discord, can provide useful information for nuclear reactor
monitoring based on antineutrino detection.
The architecture is reformulated into physically distinct layers:
1. reactor antineutrino production;
2. antineutrino propagation;
3. physical interaction in a target medium;
4. event reconstruction;
5. event-conditioned quantum interface;
6. auxiliary quantum-state tomography;
7. estimation of discord and complementary correlation metrics;
8. reactor-parameter inference.                 Unlike previous versions, the present framework does not postulate a direct antineutrino–qubit
interaction as an established physical mechanism.
The central experimental hypothesis is instead:
P(ρaux | antineutrino-associated event, θdet) ̸= P(ρaux | background event, θdet) (1)
where ρaux is the experimentally reconstructed auxiliary quantum state and θdet denotes
detector configuration.
If such a relationship exists, the framework tests whether discord contributes information
beyond conventional event rate, energy, timing, and classical-correlation observables.
The primary analysis is therefore comparative rather than assumptive:
M0 ⊂ M1 ⊂ M2, (2)
where M0 is a conventional detector model, M1 adds quantum-state observables, and M2
adds discord-derived observables.
Version 6.1 additionally integrates a structural discord-plus-coherence rate estimator, explicit
source and detector rate formulas, and a formal cross-correlation baseline.
No experimental result is claimed.