Quantifying the effects of local many-qubit errors and nonlocal two-qubit errors on the surface code
Quantifying the effects of local many-qubit errors and nonlocal two-qubit errors on the surface code
Topological quantum error correction codes are known to be able to tolerate arbitrary local errors given sufficient qubits. This includes correlated errors involving many local qubits. In this work, we quantify this level of tolerance, numerically studying the effects of many-qubit errors on the performance of the surface code. We …