ELSD Platform  ·  Electronic Landscape Stability Diagnostics

Every electronic system
has a regime.
We tell you which one you are in.

Quantum-Clarity's ELSD platform uses GPU-accelerated ensemble VQE to classify electronic regimes across batteries, catalysis, drug discovery, and advanced materials — revealing when a system is stable, multi-basin, open-shell coherent, or model-pathologic in ways that conventional single-state workflows often miss.

1,000+
VQE ensemble runs
completed
4
Validated application
domains
20 q
Operating point
per system
15–35
Independent seeds
per condition

Conventional workflows often return a number. ELSD returns a classification — whether the underlying electronic model is stable enough to trust, sensitive to perturbation, open-shell coherent, or too truncated to support decision-making.

Four distinct domains, one classification engine

The same ensemble VQE diagnostic framework is applied across chemically distinct systems. Each domain has its own named platform and published or in-preparation dataset, at different stages of validation maturity.

HELIOS Platform Validated

Energy storage — NMC811 battery cathodes

Ni-rich NMC811 cathodes degrade fastest near 50% state of charge. ELSD maps the electronic energy landscape under symmetry-breaking perturbation, directly revealing bifurcation, multi-basin structure, and dopant-response mechanisms that are not accessible from a single ground-state picture.

755 ensemble runs across Ni, Co, Mn, Al, and Co+Al systems confirm four mechanistically distinct electronic responses. Co+Al co-doping achieves the lowest landscape ruggedness in the screening grid — providing a quantum-mechanical basis for NCA's empirical stability.
8.09 kcal/mol inter-basin gap at Ni mid-charge (bifurcation confirmed)
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Prometheus Platform Validated

Drug discovery — metalloenzyme active sites

Most computational drug discovery tools optimize on top of target models that were never validated for electronic reliability. Prometheus classifies whether a metal-centered active-site model is stable, coherent, multi-basin, or model-pathologic — before a single ligand screen begins.

Four locked canonical results across Fe, Zn, and Cu systems distinguish stable benchmarks, coherent open-shell systems, scaffold-induced multi-basin behaviour, and fragment pathology. A quality-control layer for metalloenzyme programs that currently has no equivalent.
Upstream model validity classification before ligand screening
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Catalysis Emerging

Catalysis — nitrogen fixation and FeMoCo

Ensemble VQE diagnostics applied to Fe/Mo catalytic active-site models reveal structurally distinct electronic regimes across the redox series. Results suggest a stabilising electronic role for Mo across the catalytic landscape, supporting a more mechanistic interpretation of cofactor selection.

SRDS discovery: electron addition progressively eliminates multi-reference correlation in Fe₄N₂ models (R² = 1.000 across three oxidation states). Mo-containing clusters show markedly different landscape topology, consistent with a bilateral regulatory role.
0.00 kcal/mol correlation in Fe₄N₂ anion — SRDS regime
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Advanced Materials Exploratory

Materials science — cuprate superconductors

Cuprate superconductivity is one of the most electronically complex problems in condensed matter physics. ELSD is being applied to Cu–O plane cluster models to map correlation regimes and regime transitions in a classically difficult strongly correlated system.

An exploratory frontier program applying ensemble VQE diagnostics to identify electronic landscape structure in strongly correlated Cu–O models — a system where single-state methods are known to be unreliable and landscape topology has not been systematically mapped.
Frontier exploratory program — strongly correlated regime
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Four electronic landscape regimes, across all domains

ELSD produces a regime classification, not just an energy value. The same four-class framework applies whether the system is a battery cathode, a metalloenzyme active site, a catalytic cluster, or a strongly correlated material — making results comparable across domains.

Rigid stability
Stable · decision-grade · reproducible

Perturbation finds nothing to split. Single basin retained across all ensemble seeds. The model is reliable enough to support downstream decision-making — ligand screening, dopant selection, or synthesis.

Al@NMC · compressed LLZO · Zn CA2 benchmark
Coherent open-shell
Broader · single-family · sector-clean

Multi-reference character present but well-structured. The ensemble converges within a single electronic family. Results are reproducible and the model is usable with appropriate care.

Fe porphyrin FeII ls · Cu SOD minimal
Multi-basin
Competing families · bifurcated · unstable

Two or more distinct electronic basins coexist under the same scaffold. The system cannot reliably resolve its electronic state. Results depend on starting conditions and should not be trusted without landscape diagnosis.

Ni-rich NMC mid-charge · 8.09 kcal/mol inter-basin gap
Model pathology
Truncated · underconstrained · not decision-grade

The active space or scaffold is too truncated or underconstrained to produce reliable results. Ensemble seeds diverge in ways that reflect model failure rather than physical electronic structure. Not safe to optimize against.

Zn scaffold control · fragment pathology (Prometheus)

How ELSD is built

Four layers connecting industry problems to validated quantum computation. Each layer is purpose-built: the diagnostic engine, the GPU-native simulation infrastructure, and the QuantaCore™ hardware-validation architecture that underpins the simulation stack.

Domain ELSD Platform — HELIOS · Prometheus · Catalysis · Advanced Materials 4 application domains
1 classification engine
Diagnostic Ensemble VQE + ELS classification (σ, basin count, trapped fraction, regime) 15–35 seeds / condition
~3–4 GPU hrs per target
Simulation GPU-native VQE engine — gradient-preserving, high-spin aware, Pauli-filtered NVIDIA RTX · L40S
UCCSD · 20-qubit operating point
Quantum QuantaCore™ — hardware validation architecture · Y⊗Z orthogonal protection · OrthoTiles™ IBM Quantum validated
Patent pending

Partner with us on electronically difficult targets

We work with battery developers, pharmaceutical R&D teams, catalyst designers, and materials scientists who need reliable electronic landscape classification before committing resources to synthesis, screening, or clinical-stage decisions.

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Target and model classification studies

Submit a candidate composition, active-site model, or dopant strategy. We return a full ELS classification report: regime, basin structure, trapped fraction, and design recommendations. No source code shared.

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Platform evaluation partnerships

A defined evaluation campaign against your internal targets, with results benchmarked against your existing computational workflows. Designed for R&D teams assessing ELSD fit before a broader deployment decision.

03
Enterprise deployment

Full platform deployed in your environment, running across your candidate pipeline on your hardware. For organizations screening many compositions or targets on an ongoing basis.

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Strategic licensing conversations

For organizations interested in platform rights, IP integration, or long-term strategic access. Details available under mutual NDA.

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