Equation 28 · Part 9 · Error Correction Is the Whole Problem in Quantum Computing
Denominator: P_L(d+2)
What this part means
The complete quantity below the fraction bar; it must be nonzero for this division.
Its job in the formula
occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.
Full expression→Denominator: P_L(d+2)→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
so that each increase of the code distance by two multiplies the protection by a factor conventionally written . Below threshold means > 1 . Above threshold, adding qubits makes the logical qubit worse, because each additional physical qubit contributes more error than the larger code removes. This is the sense in which qubit count is not merely an incomplete figure of merit but can be an actively misleading one.
Learn the underlying idea
A fraction a/b means a divided by b. The top number is the numerator; the bottom number is the denominator, and it cannot be zero.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [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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