Equation 35 · Error Correction Is the Whole Problem in Quantum Computing
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Gidney and Ekerå’s resource estimate makes the timing assumptions explicit rather than burying them: a planar grid with nearest-neighbour connectivity, a characteristic physical gate error rate of 10^{-3} , a surface code cycle time of 1 microsecond, and a reaction time of 10 microseconds [ 14 ] . That reaction time is the round trip from measurement to decoded decision to conditioned next gate. In their construction it is a first-class quantity in the runtime, not an implementation footnote.
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