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Equation 45 · Part 2 · Error Correction Is the Whole Problem in Quantum Computing

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Λ=2.14±0.02\Lambda = 2.14 \pm 0.02
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The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.

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The follow-up result reported a distance-7 surface code with 0.143\% ±\pm 0.003\% error per cycle of error correction, an error suppression factor of Λ\Lambda = 2.14 ±\pm 0.02 when increasing the code distance by two, and a logical qubit lifetime exceeding the best physical qubit’s lifetime by a factor of 2.4 ±\pm 0.3 [ 16 ] . That is a memory experiment at a single logical qubit. It is a genuine threshold crossing and it is not a computation.

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