The Threshold Theorem in Watts: Fault Tolerance as a Question About Objective Probability

arXiv:2607.22276 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-07-24 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-07-24

Updated: 2026-09-21

Terminology

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• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Axioms — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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• Ontology — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
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Sources

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• Reinforcement Learning Control of Quantum Error Correction
• CaliScalpel: In-Situ and Fine-Grained Qubit Calibration Integrated with Surface Code Quantum Error Correction
• ReloQate: Transient Drift Detection and In-Situ Recalibration in Surface Code Quantum Error Correction
• CryoZip: An Efficient Cryogenic Compressor for Quantum Error Correction Syndromes
• Towards a Control interpretation of Quantum Advantage
• Thermodynamic limitations on fault-tolerant quantum computing
• The Snake Optimizer for Learning Quantum Processor Control Parameters
• Spatiotemporal Pauli processes: Quantum combs for modelling correlated noise in quantum error correction

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