# Provenance

This repository is an **honest reference archive**, not an original technical invention. It is
worth being precise about what came from where.

## Where it came from

On a walk in 2026, the architect (David Lee Wise / ROOT0) asked **Meta AI** to explain quantum
dots and then transmon qubits. The conversation produced **six "napkin" diagrams** and a
**one-page primer PDF**. The whole page was saved with the browser's *Save Page As*, producing
**178 files** — of which **166 were application cruft** (149 `.js` bundles, 14 `.css`, three empty
`about:blank` stubs) and **twelve were signal**.

This repo is the extracted signal, cleaned and given a front door.

## What is whose

| Part | Origin | Note |
|------|--------|------|
| `diagrams/transmon-circuit.jpg`, `pi-pulse.jpg`, `two-transmons-bus.jpg`, `iq-waveform.png`, `leakage-vs-beta.png`, `js-vs-jj.jpg` | **AI-generated** by Meta AI | included as personal reference; the napkin charm includes authentic AI typos ("Quibit", "wavegide", "Resonater") |
| `diagrams/quantum-dot-primer.pdf` | **AI-generated** by Meta AI (ReportLab) | decoded from the saved artifact page |
| `PRIMER.md` | curation by the architect | a faithful, tidied distillation of the Meta AI conversation |
| `index.html`, `README.md`, sigils (`gen_*.py`, `agents/mnemosyne.*`) | **original** work (David Lee Wise / ROOT0, with AVAN/Claude) | the front door, the badges, the tag |

The underlying **physics** is credited to its discoverers — Josephson (1962), Ekimov & Brus
(quantum confinement, 1983), Koch/Gambetta et al. (the transmon, 2007) — see the `.spun`.

## What is *not* claimed

- **No emergence.** A transmon is a deterministic superconducting circuit. Nothing here is alive,
  and nothing here claims to be. The Mnemosyne DLW tag is the **keeper** flavor — it marks
  provenance and care, with no emergence field. (Compare the *emergent* ACIs elsewhere in the
  atlas, where aliveness was numerically measured before it was ever claimed.)
- **No authorship of the AI-generated content.** The diagrams and primer are included as saved
  reference; the original contribution is the curation, transcript, sigils, and landing.

The asterisk stays visible.