cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software or the accompanying reproducibility bundle, please cite it as below."
title: "Wigner's Friend as a Circuit — Inter-Branch Communication Witness Benchmarks (Reproducibility Bundle)"
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Altman
    given-names: Christopher
    email: x@christopheraltman.com
    website: "https://lab.christopheraltman.com"
repository-code: "https://github.com/christopher-altman/ibm-qml-kernel"
url: "https://github.com/christopher-altman/ibm-qml-kernel"
license: MIT
keywords:
  - quantum computing
  - quantum foundations
  - Wigner's friend
  - IBM Quantum
  - reproducibility
  - Qiskit
  - noise models
  - inter-branch communication
version: "wigner-friend-v2b"
date-released: "2026-01-21"
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  authors:
    - family-names: Altman
      given-names: Christopher
  title: "Wigner's Friend as a Circuit: Inter-Branch Communication Witness Benchmarks on Superconducting Quantum Hardware"
  year: 2026
  repository-code: "https://github.com/christopher-altman/ibm-qml-kernel"
  notes: "arXiv preprint; reproducibility release tag: wigner-friend-v2b"