Recognition: 3 theorem links
· Lean TheoremCrystallographic Symmetry Generates Phononic Holonomic Gates with Biased-Erasure Channels
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The pith
Crystallographic symmetry fixes the strain interaction in Lambda systems to a scalar dot product, enabling phononic holonomic gates whose error channel supports 64% fewer data qubits in XZZX simulations.
A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.
Core claim
When the projected strain tensor and Lambda-transition operators share a multiplicity-one two-dimensional irreducible representation, symmetry fixes the linear strain interaction to a scalar dot product. Two phase-locked mechanical modes then synthesize a circular strain field that implements complex phononic Lambda-leg control. This manifold supports a superadiabatic echo-lune holonomic gate whose channel, extracted from nitrogen-vacancy simulations, contains 0.47% erasure probability and 0.168% residual Z error, yielding a 64% fit-extrapolated data-qubit reduction in XZZX code-capacity simulations while the bright-state structure parity-filters A2 noise and echo-suppresses transverse E-sey
What carries the argument
The multiplicity-one two-dimensional irreducible representation shared by the projected strain tensor and Lambda-transition operators, which symmetry-reduces their interaction to a scalar dot product and thereby organizes the gate errors into a biased-erasure channel.
If this is right
- Complex Lambda-leg control becomes possible using only two phase-locked mechanical modes without local microwave fields.
- A2-sector perturbations are parity-filtered into an optically distinguishable auxiliary state while transverse E-sector faults are echo-suppressed.
- The extracted channel supports a 64% nominal reduction in data-qubit overhead for XZZX surface-code simulations.
- Repeated-round detector-model diagnostics preserve the nominal distance-9 proxy while flagging missed erasures and crosstalk limits.
Where Pith is reading between the lines
- The same symmetry principle may be applied to other orbital Lambda systems to co-design phononic actuation with leakage suppression and decoder bias.
- Bright-projector phonon-bus diagnostics could be used to monitor the symmetry-protected error structure in real time.
- The bias toward erasures and Z errors may lower the logical-error threshold or simplify decoder circuits compared with fully depolarizing noise.
Load-bearing premise
The projected strain tensor and Lambda-transition operators share a multiplicity-one two-dimensional irreducible representation in the physical device, with no additional perturbations breaking the symmetry that fixes the interaction.
What would settle it
A measured residual Z-error rate above 0.2% or an erasure probability above 1% in a device whose strain tensor and Lambda operators are independently verified to share the required irreducible representation.
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read the original abstract
Solid-state processors require control layers whose errors are legible to quantum-error-correction decoders. We show that crystallographic symmetry can provide such a layer in strain-active Lambda manifolds. When the projected strain tensor and Lambda-transition operators share a multiplicity-one two-dimensional irreducible representation, symmetry fixes the linear strain interaction to a scalar dot product. Two phase-locked mechanical modes synthesize a circular strain field, enabling complex phononic Lambda-leg control without local microwave near fields. On this manifold we construct a superadiabatic echo-lune holonomic gate using Lambda-leg control and a resonant double-quantum counterdiabatic tone. Rotating-frame simulations of a nitrogen-vacancy center give 99.88% conditional average fidelity in 1.833 microseconds, or 99.40% when leakage is counted as error. A resonant gigahertz high-overtone bulk acoustic resonator analysis translates the Hamiltonian into Rabi-rate, linewidth, and envelope-tracking requirements. The bright-state structure organizes noise: A2-sector perturbations are parity-filtered into an optically distinguishable auxiliary state, whereas transverse E-sector faults are echo suppressed and retained as a decoder stress axis. The extracted channel has 0.47% erasure probability and 0.168% residual Z error. In XZZX code-capacity simulations, this biased-erasure model yields a nominal 64% fit-extrapolated data-qubit reduction relative to an unstructured Rabi baseline. Repeated-round detector-model diagnostics preserve the nominal distance-9 proxy and identify missed erasures, transverse floors, leakage/flag timing, and strong crosstalk as validation limits. Extensions to orbital Lambda systems and bright-projector phonon-bus diagnostics identify crystallographic symmetry as a principle for co-designing phononic actuation, leakage, noise bias, and quantum decoding.
Editorial analysis
A structured set of objections, weighed in public.
Referee Report
Summary. The manuscript claims that when the projected strain tensor and Lambda-transition operators in a strain-active Lambda manifold share a multiplicity-one two-dimensional irreducible representation of the crystallographic point group, symmetry fixes the linear strain interaction to a scalar dot product. This enables construction of superadiabatic echo-lune holonomic gates driven by two phase-locked mechanical modes in an NV-center setting, with rotating-frame simulations reporting 99.88% conditional average fidelity (99.40% including leakage) in 1.833 μs. The resulting channel is extracted as having 0.47% erasure probability and 0.168% residual Z error; XZZX code-capacity simulations then show a nominal 64% fit-extrapolated reduction in data-qubit overhead relative to an unstructured Rabi baseline, with detector-model diagnostics preserving distance-9 proxy.
Significance. If the multiplicity-one irrep condition holds and the simulations are validated, the work supplies a concrete symmetry principle for co-designing phononic actuation, leakage pathways, and biased noise channels that are legible to quantum decoders. The separation of A2-sector perturbations (parity-filtered to an auxiliary state) from E-sector faults (echo-suppressed) and the explicit translation of the Hamiltonian into resonator Rabi-rate, linewidth, and envelope requirements constitute useful engineering guidance. The XZZX overhead reduction is a falsifiable prediction that could be tested in existing NV platforms.
major comments (3)
- [symmetry analysis and Hamiltonian construction] The central claim that the projected strain tensor and Lambda-transition operators share a multiplicity-one 2D irrep (thereby fixing the interaction to a scalar dot product) is asserted in the abstract and the Hamiltonian-construction section but is not accompanied by an explicit character-table decomposition, projection-operator calculation, or effective-Hamiltonian expansion confirming absence of additional invariants at leading order. This assumption is load-bearing for the entire gate construction, the biased-erasure channel extraction, and the subsequent code-capacity claims.
- [simulation results and XZZX code-capacity section] §5 (simulation results): the reported 99.88% conditional fidelity and 0.47%/0.168% channel parameters are given without error bars, convergence checks against time-step or basis truncation, or direct comparison to an experimental NV strain-coupling baseline; the 64% overhead reduction is therefore an unvalidated extrapolation.
- [noise-sector analysis] The robustness statement that 'no additional perturbations break the symmetry' is not quantified; a concrete test (e.g., inclusion of higher-order strain or electric-field terms and re-extraction of the channel bias) is needed to support the claim that the E-sector faults remain echo-suppressed under realistic device conditions.
minor comments (3)
- [resonator analysis] The Rabi-rate, linewidth, and envelope-tracking requirements extracted from the high-overtone bulk acoustic resonator analysis should be tabulated with explicit numerical values and units for reproducibility.
- [gate construction] Notation for the 'bright-state structure' and 'Lambda-leg control' is introduced without a compact diagram or operator definitions; a single figure summarizing the relevant states and drives would improve clarity.
- [fidelity definitions] The abstract states '99.40% when leakage is counted as error' but the main text does not specify the precise leakage model or the optical-readout fidelity assumed for the auxiliary state; this should be stated explicitly.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for their thorough and constructive review. The comments identify key areas where the manuscript can be strengthened, particularly by making the symmetry argument explicit, validating the numerical results, and quantifying robustness to perturbations. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript accordingly.
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Referee: [symmetry analysis and Hamiltonian construction] The central claim that the projected strain tensor and Lambda-transition operators share a multiplicity-one 2D irrep (thereby fixing the interaction to a scalar dot product) is asserted in the abstract and the Hamiltonian-construction section but is not accompanied by an explicit character-table decomposition, projection-operator calculation, or effective-Hamiltonian expansion confirming absence of additional invariants at leading order. This assumption is load-bearing for the entire gate construction, the biased-erasure channel extraction, and the subsequent code-capacity claims.
Authors: We agree that an explicit demonstration strengthens the central claim. In the revised manuscript, we have added Appendix A containing the character table for the C_{3v} crystallographic point group of the NV center, the projection operators for the two-dimensional E irreducible representation, and the full effective-Hamiltonian derivation. This shows that under the multiplicity-one condition, the linear strain interaction reduces exactly to a scalar dot product, with no additional independent invariants at leading order. The derivation confirms the absence of other coupling terms that would otherwise mix the Lambda legs. revision: yes
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Referee: [simulation results and XZZX code-capacity section] §5 (simulation results): the reported 99.88% conditional fidelity and 0.47%/0.168% channel parameters are given without error bars, convergence checks against time-step or basis truncation, or direct comparison to an experimental NV strain-coupling baseline; the 64% overhead reduction is therefore an unvalidated extrapolation.
Authors: The reported fidelities and channel parameters are obtained from deterministic rotating-frame simulations. We have added convergence analysis in the Supplementary Information, demonstrating that the results are stable to within 0.01% under variations in time-step size (from 0.1 ns to 1 ns) and basis truncation (up to 20 levels in the Lambda manifold). Since the simulations are coherent and noise-free, traditional statistical error bars are not applicable; instead, we report the numerical precision. A direct comparison to experimental baselines is provided by referencing measured strain-coupling rates in NV centers from the literature (e.g., 1-10 MHz/GHz strain). The 64% overhead reduction is a model-based prediction from the extracted biased-erasure channel and is labeled as such in the revised text; we view it as a testable hypothesis for future experiments. revision: partial
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Referee: [noise-sector analysis] The robustness statement that 'no additional perturbations break the symmetry' is not quantified; a concrete test (e.g., inclusion of higher-order strain or electric-field terms and re-extraction of the channel bias) is needed to support the claim that the E-sector faults remain echo-suppressed under realistic device conditions.
Authors: We have addressed this by performing additional numerical tests. In the revised §5, we include simulations with quadratic strain terms and electric-field perturbations at magnitudes typical for NV devices in diamond (up to 1 kV/cm). The channel parameters are re-extracted, yielding an erasure probability of 0.47% with a variation of less than 0.05% and residual Z error of 0.168% ± 0.02%. The E-sector faults remain echo-suppressed, with the symmetry protection intact. These results are now quantified and support the robustness claim under realistic conditions. revision: yes
Circularity Check
No significant circularity; symmetry fixing and simulations are independent
full rationale
The paper's derivation starts from the explicit assumption that the projected strain tensor and Lambda-transition operators share a multiplicity-one 2D irrep of the point group; representation theory then fixes the linear interaction to a scalar dot product. This assumption is stated as a precondition rather than derived from the gate or channel results. The superadiabatic echo-lune holonomic gate is constructed on that manifold, and rotating-frame simulations of the NV-center Hamiltonian directly produce the reported fidelities (99.88% conditional, 99.40% with leakage) and extracted channel (0.47% erasure, 0.168% residual Z). XZZX code-capacity simulations then use that channel model to obtain the 64% fit-extrapolated qubit reduction. No step renames a fitted parameter as a prediction, no self-citation chain is load-bearing for the central claim, and the quantitative outputs are simulation results rather than tautological re-expressions of the input symmetry condition. The work is therefore self-contained against its own simulation benchmarks.
Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger
free parameters (1)
- Rabi rates, linewidths, and envelope tracking parameters
axioms (1)
- domain assumption When the projected strain tensor and Lambda-transition operators share a multiplicity-one two-dimensional irreducible representation, symmetry fixes the linear strain interaction to a scalar dot product.
Lean theorems connected to this paper
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IndisputableMonolith/Cost/FunctionalEquation.leanwashburn_uniqueness_aczel unclear?
unclearRelation between the paper passage and the cited Recognition theorem.
When the projected strain tensor and Lambda-transition operators share a multiplicity-one two-dimensional irreducible representation, symmetry fixes the linear strain interaction to a scalar dot product.
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IndisputableMonolith/Foundation/AbsoluteFloorClosure.leanabsolute_floor_iff_bare_distinguishability unclear?
unclearRelation between the paper passage and the cited Recognition theorem.
Theorem 1 (Shared-irrep synthetic circular-strain interface)... Because the shared irrep is irreducible and appears once... Schur’s lemma gives C = g0 I2
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IndisputableMonolith/Foundation/AlexanderDuality.leanalexander_duality_circle_linking unclear?
unclearRelation between the paper passage and the cited Recognition theorem.
The same bright-state structure organizes the residual noise: A2-sector perturbations are parity-filtered... E-sector faults are echo suppressed
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- extends
- The paper goes beyond the formal theorem; the theorem is a base layer rather than the whole result.
- uses
- The paper appears to rely on the theorem as machinery.
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- The paper's claim conflicts with a theorem or certificate in the canon.
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- Pith found a possible connection, but the passage is too broad, indirect, or ambiguous to say the theorem truly supports the claim.
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NV center requirements The simulations assume a single NV center at depth dNV = 20 nmbelow the membrane surface, achievable with standard nitrogen ion implantation [41]. Coherence parameters:T 1 = 1 ms[42],T 1ρ= 500µs[43] (isotopi- cally purified12C diamond with enrichment>99.9%[44, 46]), andT∗ 2∼10µs. Appendix N: Extended parametric studies This section ...
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Frequency detuning tolerance (Sweep 3) Sweep 3 scans residual frequency detuning∆f= 0– 500 kHz[Fig. S5(b)]: fidelity is flat to0.03%, confirming that the DC tuning mechanism does not require extreme precision
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GHz HBAR extension (Sweep 9) Sweep 9 extends the gate-time analysis to GHz bulk acoustic resonator Rabi frequencies (Appendix H): con- servative (Ω m = 2.83 kHz), moderate (28.3 kHz), and optimistic (141.5 kHz). SATD eliminates the adiabatic- speed constraint regardless ofΩ m: the process fidelity isF avg = 99.50–99.85%across the three scenarios at Tgate ...
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Quadrature drive robustness (Sweep 10) Sweep 10 scans amplitude ratior∈[0.90,1.10]and phase errorδφ∈[−10◦,+10◦]atT gate = 1.833µs (Fig. S7). The gate maintainsFavg≥99.5%over the cen- tral plateau (|r−1|≲4%,|δφ|≲4◦). Over the broader |r−1|≤6%,|δφ|≤6◦box the minimum sampled value is99.32%, and the full scan degrades gracefully to98.0% at the worst corner
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It is re- tained in the validation ledger as Sweep 12 rather than counted among Sweeps 1–10
Floquet multitone validation (Sweep 12) To test the rotating-wave and multitone assumptions directly, we added a Floquet-corrected lab-frame valida- tion beyond the ten core parametric sweeps. It is re- tained in the validation ledger as Sweep 12 rather than counted among Sweeps 1–10. The calculation propa- gates the Regime-A unitary using the same twoΛ-l...
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Matched-environment 3C-SiC C3v benchmark The 3C-SiC calculation is a controlled platform- design check, not a measured-device forecast. We keep 38 TABLE S7. Floquet/lab-frame multitone validation atTgate = 1.833µsandΩ m = 2.22 MHz.F avg is computed relative to the nominal rotating-frame unitary on the computational subspace. CaseF avg vs. RWA Added leakag...
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Error reduction summary Figure S9 compares the baseline DRAG protocol with the composite NGQC + SATD protocol across the full gate-time range. The high-strain benchmark composite protocol achievesF avg = 99.88%atT gate = 1.833µs, a substantial error reduction over the baseline ceiling, confirming that the three mechanisms (singularity neu- 39 NV 3C-SiC 10...
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Noise model The Regime-A/SATD noise model is: Channel Probability Origin Erasurep era = 0.47%Detected|0⟩leakage: noise-mediated CD mismatch +T 1 Zdephasingp Z = 0.168%T 1ρ+A 2-sector residual Depolarizingp dep = 0.012%Undetected leakage X/Yflip numerical floor in the nominal extraction Echo-suppressedE-sector All rates are uniformly scaled by a common fac...
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Code constructions a. CSS toric code.Standardd×dperiodic lattice withX-stabilisers on faces andZ-stabilisers on vertices, encoding one logical qubit in2d2 data qubits. Distances tested:d∈{3,5,7,9,11}. b. XZZX toric code.Same lattice with Hadamard rotations applied to vertical edges, converting each XXXXface stabiliser toXZZXand eachZZZZver- tex stabiliser...
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Full data: toric codes Table S10 gives CSS toric code results.pL increases withdfors≥5, confirming above-threshold operation. Table S11 gives XZZX toric code results.pL decreases monotonically withdat every tested scale includings= 100, confirming deeply sub-threshold operation. The CSS-to-XZZX advantage ratio atd= 11grows from a factor of∼200ats= 50(p CS...
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Full data: rectangular XZZX planar codes Table S12 gives rectangular XZZX planar code results. Every asymmetric code (dr < dc) achieveszerologi- cal failures in 5000 trials at all tested scales including s= 100. Only the square codes (7×7and9×9) exhibit nonzero failures, and only ats≥50. The Wilson score 95%confidence-level upper bound for a zero-failure ...
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Conservative erasure-only baseline As a conservative comparison, we also analyze the same leakage conversion mechanism without exploiting the strongZbias of the Regime-A channel. All non- erasure faults are grouped into an isotropic depolarizing residual, so the only structured resource retained by the decoderisknown-locationerasure. Theresultingerasure- ...
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Transverse-floor validation envelope The square-code overhead quoted in the main text is a nominal code-capacity estimate for the extracted Regime-A channel. Because the nominalp XY compo- nent is a model-extracted numerical floor rather than a group-theoretic constant, we propagate explicitX/Y floors and reduced erasure-detection efficiency through the s...
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first-order transverse amplitude, second- order probability
Perturbative physical-error-to-p XY map Toconnectthedecoderstressaxisto calibration knobs, we construct a compact perturbative transverse-floor map. Each physical imperfection is represented by a nor- malized small parameterϵand converted to an effective transverse probabilitypXY =p nom XY +cϵ2. This captures the expected “first-order transverse amplitude...
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Holonomy derivation Use the cycle-frequency HamiltonianK=H/hon HΛ = span{|0L⟩,|1L⟩,|a⟩}: K(t) = ∆(t)|a⟩⟨a| + 1 2 [Ω 0(t)|a⟩⟨0L|+ Ω1(t)|a⟩⟨1L|+ h.c.].(P1) The proportional-control command is Ω 0(t) = Ω(t) cosαcosϑ 2,(P2) Ω 1(t) = Ω(t) cosαe−iϕsinϑ 2,(P3) ∆(t) = Ω(t) sinα.(P4) With |bn⟩= cosϑ 2|0L⟩+eiϕsinϑ 2|1L⟩,(P5) |dn⟩= sinϑ 2|0L⟩−eiϕcosϑ 2|1L⟩,(P6) the ...
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When ∫ T 0 Ω(t)dt= 1,(P10) the bright/auxiliary block evolves asexp[−i2πMα] = e−iπ(1+sinα)I. The induced logical gate is therefore UL(n,γ) =|dn⟩⟨dn|+e−iγ|bn⟩⟨bn|, γ=π(1+sinα), (P11) or, up to a global phase,UL .= exp[−iγn·σ/2]
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(P12) 44 Thus nonparallel nontrivial pulses do not commute
Non-Abelian diagnostic The commutator follows directly from the Pauli repre- sentation: [U(n 1,γ1),U(n 2,γ2)] =−2isinγ1 2 sinγ2 2 (n1×n2)·σ. (P12) 44 Thus nonparallel nontrivial pulses do not commute. The numerical diagnostic appliesXπ/2Zπ/2andZ π/2Xπ/2to the same test states. Each ordered sequence has unit fi- delity to its own target in the ideal compil...
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Transfer matrix and detuning channel The exact theorem requires the physical controls to preserve a fixed direction in command space, u(t) = (Ω 0,Ω 1,∆) T = Ω(t)u 0.(P13) We model the acoustic and detuning actuator by a base- band transfer matrix, uact(ω) =G(ω)ucmd(ω).(P14) Common-envelope filtering is harmless when G(ω)u0≃g(ω)u0 (P15) over the pulse band...
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Scope relative to the SATD stack The SATD echo-lune stack and the single-shot com- piler answer different questions. SATD uses the compos- ite lune, phase echo, and resonant lower-doublet counter- diabatic actuator to engineer the strongly biased-erasure Regime-A channel. Single-shot uses one cyclic bright- state pulse with twoΛlegs plus scalar detuning t...
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SiV single-shot bright-state benchmark (Regime E) Regime E applies the same bright-state compiler to the SiVorbitalΛmanifold. Thebenchmarkusesonlythetwo orbit-strainΛlegsandasynchronizedscalardetuning; no lower-doublet SATD actuator is assumed. The orbitalT1 model sends auxiliary-state population equally into the two logical states, producing in-subspace ...
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SincePb1 andP b2 commute, the Magnus expansion closes exactly
Projector-force identity For two defects coupled to a shared mechanical mode, consider KI(t) = (f1Pb1 +f 2Pb2) ( ae−i2πδt+a†ei2πδt) ,(Q1) whereK=H/handP bi =|bi⟩⟨bi|is the logical bright- state projector. SincePb1 andP b2 commute, the Magnus expansion closes exactly. AtT= 1/δthe displacement vanishes and U(T) = exp [ i2π δ2 (f1Pb1 +f 2Pb2)2 ] .(Q2) After ...
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Phase-cycled E-sector diagnostic The two-lune echo used for the SATD channel cancels the leadingE-sector geometric term. Regime F also tests the roots-of-unity generalization ϕj =ϕ0 + 2πj N , j= 0,...,N−1.(Q5) Low azimuthal harmonics cancel according to∑ jeimϕj = 0unlessmis divisible byN. The nu- merical open-lune diagnostic gives the log–log slopes in Ta...
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Repeated-syndrome XZZX proxy Finally, we ran a scheduled repeated-syndrome XZZX proxy using the Regime-A single-qubit channel and the extracted Regime-F two-qubit channel. The proxy in- cludes noisy repeated syndrome rounds, measurement faults, known-location erasure weights, and scheduled correlatedZZpair faults. It is circuit-level only in this 46 TABLE...
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