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Introduction
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A geometric extension of a quantum programming language must specify what geometry can observe. This requirement is independent of the choice of gravitational dynamics or a continuum limit. Linear ownership of quantum names does not determine a mass; a measurement record is not a coarse-graining map; and a circuit dependency region is not automatically a physical light cone.
We use a finite circuit interface with destructive readout
Its semantics is the Born destructive computational-basis measurement used by Cheung's Enter calculus Cheung2026Enter,CheungI. Measured quantum names are consumed, and their tensor factors are not returned. We do not reprove a language-wide type-safety theorem or derive the Born rule. Our mixed-state channel presentation is a finite-dimensional semantic interface for that measurement operation.
Four additional structures are declared:
an external classical geometric configuration;
a location map for active matter names;
coupling algebras specifying accessible matter observables;
a complete control and resource interface specifying update selection, applicability, support, and retained storage.
Geometry is primitive metadata, not a quantity inferred from name cardinality, measurement count, or workspace size.
Two distinctions organize the paper:
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