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qc-011Active research
The physical resources, decoding, control, and integration needed for useful large-scale fault-tolerant computation remain active engineering and research problems.
Surface codes supply a framework, but complete systems must coordinate many layers and achieve application-specific logical performance.
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Resource estimates depend on target algorithms, code choices, hardware error models, and architectural assumptions.
Supporting sources
primary paper · verified
Surface codes: Towards practical large-scale quantum computation
Austin G. Fowler et al. · 2012
Primary technical overview of surface-code fault tolerance.
Source record →authoritative report · verified
Quantum Information Science and Technology Roadmap
U.S. Department of Energy · 2024
Authoritative systems-level account of hardware, algorithms, error correction, and applications.
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