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An electric boundary of the surface code condenses electric anyons, while a magnetic boundary condenses magnetic anyons. A local boundary Pauli can create a single condensed excitation because its string may end at that boundary.

For Pauli errors, “suitably local” means that every pairwise product has support too small to carry a logical string:A sufficient geometric statement is $|\mathrm{supp}{E}_a\cup \mathrm{supp}{E}_b|<d$; in particular, each error having weight below $d/2$ suffices. Such a product is either a stabilizer or creates an excitation detected by at least one stabilizer. It is never a nontrivial logical operator, so the ground-space projector of the surface code obeys the Knill--Laflamme condition for the entire set.

Forthe two basic particles have bosonic self-statistics and full mutual-braid phase $-1$. Moreover $|\det K_1|=4$. These are the electric and magnetic particles of the surface code.

Forthe first basic particle is a fermion, the second is a boson, and they are mutual semions; again $|\det K_2|=4$. They can be identified with $f=e\times m$ and $m$, so this is merely another integral basis for the same surface-code phase.

Finally,which already rules it out. Therefore