CLAIM-2026-09-01-02

At QuEra Computing, re-acquisition of an optical lock started at 58% success and about 150 seconds and ended at 99.3% across 700 trials - 695 recoveries. Over a 19-hour run Claude's tuned PID controllers did not lose the lock once, against about 1.6 unlocks an hour for the expert-tuned controllers.

Why it matters

It is the number that makes the wiring worth doing, which is what turns a research preview into deployed machinery inside the EU.

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