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Surface code

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The surface code is a topological stabilizer code whose electric and magnetic excitations are bosons with mutual-semion braiding.
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Surface code
The toric code has commuting star and plaquette stabilizers. Its electric and magnetic excitations are bosons with mutual-semion statistics, and their fusion is a fermion.

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Surface code by Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16
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  • www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05434-1
  • www.qutube.nl/quantum-computer-12/surface-codes
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