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Physical and logical qubits

A distinction between directly controlled physical degrees of freedom and encoded logical information distributed across them. This candidate isolates the cited result from broader claims about scaling, fault tolerance, manufacturability, economics, and useful computational advantage.

Bounded definition

A distinction between directly controlled physical degrees of freedom and encoded logical information distributed across them.

What the cited work establishes

The paper gives a quantum code construction that protects encoded information against specified single-qubit errors under its model.

The models, apparatus, protocols, datasets, and comparisons reported in Scheme for reducing decoherence in quantum computer memory.

Claims: urn:maha:claim:physical-and-logical-qubits

What remains a separate question

An encoded state is not automatically fault tolerant; syndrome extraction, gates, leakage, correlated errors, and decoding remain separate.

A code construction does not establish that a physical system operates below threshold or that its full control stack satisfies fault-tolerance assumptions.

Connected domain graph

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mechanistic dependencycanonical

Linear-optical quantum computation

inbound connection · concept

Photonic encodings distinguish physical carriers from protected logical information.

mechanistic dependencycanonical

Quantum error correction

outbound connection · method

Logical qubits are defined through an encoding and active error-correction procedure.

mechanistic dependencycanonical

Quantum error correction

inbound connection · method

Error correction creates and maintains the physical-to-logical distinction.

Claim ledger

Every proposition keeps its own evidence state.

theoretical-modelsingle-study

The cited code construction demonstrates that one logical state can be encoded across multiple physical qubits to correct specified error classes.

Scope
The models, apparatus, protocols, datasets, and comparisons reported in Scheme for reducing decoherence in quantum computer memory.
Boundary
An encoded state is not automatically fault tolerant; syndrome extraction, gates, leakage, correlated errors, and decoding remain separate.
Uncertainty
No platform-independent uncertainty interval exists; numerical values remain attached to the source experiment or model and its stated assumptions.
Replication
This candidate records one bounded source package. Independent replications and contradictory measurements must be compiled as separate records before maturity is upgraded.

Primary sources

Citation, locator, rights, and boundary travel together.

  1. Source 1 · Physical Review A, American Physical Society

    Scheme for reducing decoherence in quantum computer memory

    Peter W. Shor

    Exact locator
    Abstract; encoding construction; error-correction argument.
    Establishes
    The paper gives a quantum code construction that protects encoded information against specified single-qubit errors under its model.
    Boundary
    A code construction does not establish that a physical system operates below threshold or that its full control stack satisfies fault-tolerance assumptions.
    Rights basis
    citation with paraphrase · Maha paraphrases the source-level result and links to the version of record; no article passage is reproduced.