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    "body_text": "Classical shadows usually randomize among measurement settings, adding control and calibration overhead beyond circuit depth. This construction couples the unknown n-qubit system to a freshly prepared n-qubit fiducial register and performs parallel Bell readout. One fixed setting then replaces the 3-to-the-n local-Pauli settings used for complete reconstruction while retaining d-squared outcomes for d equals 2 to the n. The fiducial preparation uses n minus one arbitrary two-qubit gates and logarithmic depth with all-to-all connectivity; the unknown system sees one parallel entangling layer. The result is theoretical trade-off analysis, not a demonstration on a specific quantum processor.",
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