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Year 2·Month 30·Week 2

Day 820: Lattice Surgery Fundamentals

Day 820 of 2,016~19 min read

Learning Objectives

•**Explain the lattice surgery paradigm** and contrast it with transversal gate approaches
•**Distinguish rough and smooth boundaries** on surface code patches
•**Trace logical operator paths** across different boundary configurations
•**Describe code deformation** as stabilizer modification in real-time
•**Analyze the fault-tolerance properties** of boundary manipulation operations
•**Implement boundary visualization** for planar surface code patches

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