Glossary
Every technical term this platform uses, with what it means and — the part that is harder to find elsewhere — the mistake it prevents. On this subject the intuitive reading is often the wrong one, so each entry says what a reader would otherwise get wrong.
Resources
- Lattice surgery
Performing operations between logical qubits by merging and splitting their patches on the grid.
Easy to get wrong: It needs free space beside the data to move information through, so a register of n logical qubits occupies more than n patches — Microsoft's estimator uses 2n + ⌈√(8n)⌉ + 1.