
Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices suffer from calibration drift—slow, coherent phase errors accumulating between active corrections. We present EEDT (Entanglement-Enhanced Dynamical Tracking), a measurement-gated quantum error correction protocol utilizing noisy measurements to dictate intervention timing. Initial Lindblad simulations yielded a counterintuitive 339% deviation from theoretical bounds, which we identify as the Golden Eye collapse in low-noise regimes (σ_ro < 3%). This motivates a bifurcated theoretical model incorporating Golden Eye Occupancy (high-σ) and noise-floor saturation (low-σ) regimes, achieving 78% prediction accuracy improvement over prior models, with the critical threshold σ_c ≈ 2% analytically derived. New in v8: We report the first statistically significant real-hardware demonstration on three IBM Heron devices (ibm_fez, ibm_torino, ibm_marrakesh). After systematic qubit selection (ε_01 = 1.18%) and direct ZZ Ramsey measurement (ν_ZZ = 0.13 kHz), the stroboscopic CDQEM protocol achieves a correction gain of +0.112 at N_meas = 8 with 2.7σ significance on ibm_marrakesh, confirming the MCM post-selection effect predicted by the stroboscopic convergence theorem. All code, data, and IBM Quantum job IDs are publicly available.
quantum error mitigation, NISQ, calibration drift, IBM Heron
quantum error mitigation, NISQ, calibration drift, IBM Heron
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