QIRT Meta-Floor Protocol

This side paper presents a full hardware benchmark of Quantum Information Refinement Theory (QIRT) version 6, QIRT Meta-Floor Protocol applied to the NP-hard 3-Exact Cover problem. The QIRT v6 architecture implements Adaptive Quantum Error Correction (QEC) Floor-Shaping to guide symbolic collapse toward valid clause solutions without Grover’s search or QUBO penalty functions. Benchmarks were executed on the 127-qubit IBM Sherbrooke quantum processor in July 2025, achieving a mean Clause Satisfaction Rate (CSR) of 6.13% over 26,240 shots—more than doubling the standard baseline for this problem class. All circuits, raw outputs, and analysis methods are provided for reproducibility. This report supplements the main QIRT7 white paper and demonstrates the practical utility of entropic shaping and meta-floor QEC in symbolic clause-solving tasks. For full theoretical background and additional benchmarks, see: [link to main QIRT7 Zenodo/arXiv page]. Keywords: QIRT, quantum computing, 3-Exact Cover, IBM Sherbrooke, symbolic collapse, quantum error correction, entropic shaping, hardware benchmark, clause satisfaction, quantum information refinement All content is protected under US Provisional Patent 63/826,473. No use in commercial or institutional projects is authorized without permission. Publicly released for research transparency only.