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          "markdown": "Contact plus anisotropic dressed interaction and internal channels",
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        },
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          "links": []
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      "key": "synthetic-gauge-or-spin-orbit-gas",
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          "markdown": "Dressed gap exceeds Doppler, interaction, temperature, ramp; drive avoids resonances",
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          "markdown": "Laser phases, detuning, polarization, timing controlled",
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          "markdown": "Band geometry, Wilson-loop or dynamics with micromotion map",
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          "markdown": "Spontaneous emission, nonadiabaticity, Floquet heating, projection",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Calibrated gauge dynamics; interacting topological phase requires separate tests",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        }
      }
    },
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      "key": "moire-flat-band-device",
      "row_id": "cold-atoms-synthetic-matter-claim-test-matrix--moire-flat-band-device",
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          "markdown": "Moiré flat-band device",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Continuum/downfolded bands plus screened form-factor interaction",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "required_scale_hierarchy": {
          "markdown": "$W$, isolation gaps, $E_C$, temperature, disorder, remote bands quantified",
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        },
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          "markdown": "Compressibility, spectroscopy, transport, thermodynamics with contacts",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Relaxation, screening, flavor polarization, domains, inhomogeneity",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Device-specific band or phase evidence; filling alone has no phase content",
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          "links": []
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      }
    },
    {
      "key": "certified-analog-simulation",
      "row_id": "cold-atoms-synthetic-matter-claim-test-matrix--certified-analog-simulation",
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          "markdown": "Certified analog simulation",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Target, discrepancy operators, preparation and measurement channels",
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          "links": []
        },
        "required_scale_hierarchy": {
          "markdown": "Exact limits and benchmark regime overlap the claimed domain",
          "math": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "preparation": {
          "markdown": "Calibration data separated from validation data",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Held-out observable vector with full covariance",
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          "links": []
        },
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          "markdown": "Adversarial faults, solver discrepancy, extrapolation failure",
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        },
        "evidence_ceiling_through_10_august_2026": {
          "markdown": "Bounded model-realization certificate, never proof beyond tested domain",
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  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "id": "ref-7dd577c6922e2d7f",
      "markdown": "Bloch, I., Dalibard, J., and Nascimbène, S. (2012). “Quantum simulations with ultracold quantum gases.” *Nature Physics* **8**, 267–276. [doi:10.1038/nphys2259](https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2259).",
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        "https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2259"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "reference_scope": "The reference catalog reproduces the canonical chapter bibliography. Cell links are associated with references only when their resolved URL matches; uncited chapter references are not asserted as claim-specific support."
}
