I'd pack my bags at this point too if I were you.

Let me leave this for anyone who comes across this thread, hoping for a neat conclusion.

You have posted a Lindblad argument that assumes the noise scales quadratically. That quadratic scaling is the basis of your N<170qubits.

Atom and microsoft have demonstrated logical qubits operating at an error rate four times better than the physical error rate. Other global teams have demonstratd similar. These results are empirical proof that the noise in their systems is correctable, and therefore does not scale quadratically, and therefore the actual noise profile is not following the eventually catastrophic scale path that defines your math (that ends up bing-bong at170)

It's one or the other: Either atom and microsoft and quantinium and harvard and everyone else are lying and it’s all a scam—or your argument has already been proved wrong by experiment.

Both these things cannot be true at once, that is impossible.

Passing reader: which one do you think is true? .

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Ending with one last dodge.

Pure quantum shitcoin.

Live long and prosper. 🖖

Dodge accusation as a dodge, how very novel. You have no answer of course. You know you can't say they're all scamming.

Smoking that hype isn't good for you, man. When you play at shitcoin bubbles, you're rugging or you're getting rugged.

Summary of the topic you cannot confront:

You (quoting)

“QEC doesn’t repeal Lindblad. It adds more measurements and makes the N2 term worse.”

Results of multiple real-world experiments:

“Hi! We provide irrefutable empirical proof that QEC makes the N2 term considerably better, across the board!”

Classic case of real world experiments forcing theorist back to the drawing board.

Drawing board’s over there.

You are falling for weasel words, Joe.

That's how they weaponize your lack of expertise to get you to draw the wrong conclusions and keep you on the sauce.

"Better N²" means they reduced noise (very locally) and plugged a smaller number into the equation. That doesn't change the equation.

Again, we arrive at the max of 170 under the maximally generous assumption that they get those factors to zero.

This means nothing but "we did a better isolation".

BTW, I was going to give you a consolation zap and I couldn't. Set up you wallet, broham.

Nostr has too many features. I’m building a soft fork with no DMs, no zaps, no reactions, no media. Just text. you can zap some random nostr wierdo in my behalf.

And this better isolation + smaller number attempt to retroactively add an asterisk after your "QEC makes the N2 term worse" from earlier, pretty sure you know that can't fly.

Under you assumptions, the error rate for the logical qubit has to *always be worse* than the physical qubit, no matter how good the isolation is. But look, it's actually better. Also the logical lifetime of the logical qubit would have to always be shorter (for Google's Willow it's like 3x longer).

The results prove irrefutably that the N is *not* the governing factor in these QEC systems at all.

To argue that the ceiling remains at 170 despite multiple results showing the logical error rate is better (yes better) and the lifetimes longer (yes longer) than the physical is to break your own math.

It's correctable, exponential scaling, proven out by experiment. Not the uncorrectable, quadratic scaling your math depends on, and that you just broke with your asterisk anyway.