Construct logical operations and generalized stitched codes

Construct logical operations on stitched codes and stitched-code architectures using other small outer codes beyond the [4,2,2] code.

Background

The stability experiment shows that GHZ corridors are substantially slower than lattice surgery for accumulating time-like distance, and the authors therefore do not expect them to replace lattice surgery directly in computation. They identify logical operations that avoid reliance on corridor outcomes, as well as stitched constructions based on other small outer codes, as unresolved topics.

References

We leave logical operations on stitched codes, and stitched codes with other small outer codes, to future work.

— Stitched surface codes: planar concatenation through GHZ corridors  (2610.21357 - Shalby et al., 15 Oct 2026) in Appendix, Section Stability experiment