Equation 20 · Error Correction Is the Whole Problem in Quantum Computing
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It does not promise that operating below threshold is sufficient. Below threshold, increasing d suppresses logical error. The suppression is exponential in d but the prefactor matters enormously in practice, and the useful regime is reached only when p is well below , not marginally below it. Near threshold, the exponent is small and the overhead explodes.
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- [5] Resilient Quantum Computation ↗
- [6] Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Constant Error Rate ↗
- [15] Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit ↗
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