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Quantum Engineering

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Whether quantum computational capabilities can be demonstrated, sustained, and scaled beyond isolated demonstrations.

2026-10-24FR-QE-0008Approved Scout flag 2026-10-24-01 implemented after explicit all-approved-flags corpus authorisation. NeST is architecture/simulation evidence only; extrapolation and hardware-validation limits retained. FR-QE-0008 only; no separate FR-QE-0004 instance. AS-005, RESOLVING / VS-04, mechanisms and open questions unchanged. Receipt: docs/reviews/SCOUT-2026-10-24-APPROVED-INSTANCES.md.Resolving
2026-10-20FR-QE-0008Normal Record Review admitted Lavasani et al., arXiv:2610.24077v1, as direct trapped-ion below-threshold distance-scaling evidence. Experimental colour-code memory scaling spans d=3,5,7 and logical two-qubit Clifford scaling spans d=3,5. Larger-scale resource projections and unmeasured universal-computation claims are excluded.Resolving
2026-10-03FR-QE-0008Normal Record Review of RR-2026-10-03-01 admitted Burt et al., arXiv:2610.01923v1, as distinct protocol-design evidence for loss-tolerant distributed lattice surgery. The 50% interface-erasure result assumes absent local noise; local errors mask the interface-distance advantage at 10^-3 circuit/resource error and gains strengthen at lower noise. This is not an experimental system-scale suppression result. AS-003 remains current; FR-QE-0008 stays RESOLVING / VS-04. No open question or claim change.Resolving
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