Was an honor and pleasure to serve as handling editor for this paper, not just because it was a very nice piece of work, but also bc I enjoy good puns and pop- (or in that case, rock-)culture references (admittedly, also the bad ones), not sure if the authors noticed mine in the decision letter
Nicolai Friis
Published in Quantum: LUCI in the Surface Code with Dropouts by Dripto M. Debroy, Matt McEwen, Craig Gidney, Noah Shutty, and Adam Zalcman doi.org/10.22331/q-2...
Dripto M. Debroy, Matt McEwen, Craig Gidney, Noah Shutty, and Adam Zalcman, Quantum 9, 1936 (2025). Recently, usage of detecting regions facilitated the discovery of new circuits for fault-tolerantly...
