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Year 2·Month 30·Week 2

Day 821: Merge Operations (XX and ZZ)

Day 821 of 2,016~17 min read

Learning Objectives

•**Define XX and ZZ merge operations** mathematically and operationally
•**Describe the boundary fusion process** that connects two surface code patches
•**Analyze measurement outcomes** and their effect on logical states
•**Calculate Pauli corrections** required after merge operations
•**Verify fault-tolerance** of the merge protocol through syndrome analysis
•**Simulate merge operations** on logical qubit states

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