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[[160,8,14]] d ≤
n
160
k
8
d
14
kd²/n
9.8
w
7
X/Z
1

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Distance

X/Z asymmetry 1 · d_X ≤ 14, d_Z ≤ 14 · w_X = 7, w_Z = 7 (max(d_X,d_Z)/min(d_X,d_Z); each side carries its own earned tier: = certified exact, ≤ witness upper bound)
d_X 14 · witness weight 14 (claimed upper_bound)
witness operator (support, 14 qubits)
[24, 26, 45, 60, 61, 62, 95, 109, 113, 115, 117, 121, 148, 151]
d_Z 14 · witness weight 14 (claimed upper_bound)
witness operator (support, 14 qubits)
[44, 45, 52, 53, 83, 92, 94, 107, 110, 111, 120, 123, 137, 139]
certificate none yet · distance stands as a self-certified upper bound (d ≤)

Diagnostics

computed by the verifier from the parity checks, the layout, and the stored witnesses; shown as evidence, not used for ranking
girth H_X 4 · H_Z 4 (shortest cycle of each side’s Tanner graph; longer is friendlier to belief propagation)
check weights H_X 7 · H_Z 7
qubit degrees H_X 2–5 (mean 3.5) · H_Z 2–5 (mean 3.5)
trapping sets H_X (1,2)×80 (2,2)×80 (3,2)×80 (smallest syndrome weight at each size, connected sets of up to 3 qubits)
full (size, syndrome weight): count census for H_X
(1,2): 80 (1,5): 80 (2,2): 80 (2,5): 800 (2,6): 160 (2,8): 480 (3,2): 80 (3,5): 4000 (3,6): 1920 (3,7): 880 (3,8): 10320 (3,9): 2640 (3,10): 960 (3,11): 3280 (3,13): 160
trapping sets H_Z (1,2)×80 (2,2)×80 (3,2)×80 (smallest syndrome weight at each size, connected sets of up to 3 qubits)
full (size, syndrome weight): count census for H_Z
(1,2): 80 (1,5): 80 (2,2): 80 (2,5): 800 (2,6): 160 (2,8): 480 (3,2): 80 (3,5): 4000 (3,6): 1920 (3,7): 880 (3,8): 10320 (3,9): 2640 (3,10): 960 (3,11): 3280 (3,13): 160

Construction & provenance

authors @MathysRennela
provenance submitted through the challenge
novelty novelty not audited
construction contributed via qldpc submit
model DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (claimed, not verified)
date 2026-09-18
notes Literature reproduction of a published 2BGA code (arXiv:2306.16400; github.com/QEC-pages/2BGA-codes @ 403d194c3f98f0cadc236aecbc4a8b6139ccf23c). Checked against the live board: not equivalent to any existing entry.
family generalized bicycle (a tag, not a ranking)
locality unrestricted (computed from the layout)
weight class weight ≤ 8 (computed)

How this code was found

the research note submitted with this code · raw markdown · all notes

[[160,8,14]] — two-block group-algebra code on SmallGroup(80,1)

Direction & hypothesis

Target: unrestricted weight-8 frontier for hackathon issue #1155. Reconstruct a published 2BGA code absent from the local board. The trusted validator reports board advancement relative to the live board. Efficiency kd²/n = 9.80.

What was searched

Scraped GitHub for downloadable parity-check matrix artifacts and parameter tables. From github.com/QEC-pages/2BGA-codes @ 403d194c3f98f0cadc236aecbc4a8b6139ccf23c, nonabelian.zip, diswtnonabelian_wt7wtL2_order80_k8.txt, line 6. This row is SmallGroup(80,1) with nonidentity GAP supports a=[2], b=[6, 28, 44, 72]. Reconstructed via GAP (Cayley table) and the repository's group-algebra constructor.

Evidence trail

The trusted candidate gate returned passed: true, structural verification passed (CSS, connectivity, k=8), and no lighter logical was found in the refutation search. Distance is a witness-backed upper bound d ≤ 14, not an exact certificate. The published distance (d=14) is consistent with this run.

Dead ends

None for this candidate. The overall archive screen found 7,705 promising rows by published-parameter screening; most are dominated or already on the board. This row survived the screen and the gate.

Tools

Union Alpha (maker currently anonymous), Zed coding agent; installed GAP Small Groups library, NumPy, repository group-algebra constructor and trusted validator. Public artifacts fetched by immutable commit URL and treated as data. Bounded local CPU run, no paid compute.

Reproduction

Use GAP g := SmallGroup(80,1), e := Elements(g). Construct the zero-based Cayley table mul[i,j] = Position(e,e[i+1]*e[j+1])-1. The published nonidentity supports are a=[2] and b=[6, 28, 44, 72] in GAP's one-based indexing. Add identity and convert to zero-based. Build HX=[L(a)|R(b)], HZ=[R(b)^T|L(a)^T] with left/right regular representations. Verify CSS; k = 160 - rank(HX) - rank(HZ) = 8. Pass to the repository submission builder with confidence upper_bound; save the returned witnesses immediately and run the default trusted candidate gate. Do not replace the returned distance with the paper's number.

Parity checks

X-checks 80 (max weight 7) · Z-checks 80 (max weight 7)
H_X (80 checks, sparse supports)
[0, 32, 80, 106, 127, 136, 150] [0, 1, 81, 114, 135, 143, 154] [1, 2, 82, 96, 108, 111, 139] [3, 6, 83, 107, 120, 123, 141] [4, 17, 84, 92, 121, 137, 142] [5, 48, 80, 85, 122, 150, 158] [2, 6, 86, 103, 116, 119, 146] [3, 7, 87, 115, 128, 131, 148] [4, 8, 88, 99, 129, 144, 149] [5, 9, 81, 89, 130, 154, 159] [7, 10, 85, 90, 109, 125, 151] [8, 11, 91, 94, 110, 126, 152] [9, 12, 82, 92, 111, 124, 127] [13, 18, 93, 105, 122, 138, 153] [14, 19, 83, 94, 123, 136, 139] [15, 33, 84, 95, 107, 137, 151] [16, 63, 85, 96, 104, 138, 158] [10, 17, 89, 97, 117, 133, 155] [11, 18, 98, 101, 118, 134, 156] [12, 19, 86, 99, 119, 132, 135] [13, 20, 100, 113, 130, 145, 157] [14, 21, 87, 101, 131, 143, 146] [15, 22, 88, 102, 115, 144, 155] [16, 23, 89, 103, 112, 145, 159] [20, 24, 95, 104, 124, 140, 158] [21, 25, 90, 96, 105, 125, 141] [22, 26, 91, 106, 109, 126, 142] [23, 27, 80, 92, 107, 127, 140] [28, 34, 93, 108, 121, 138, 152] [29, 35, 82, 94, 109, 139, 150] [30, 49, 90, 95, 110, 123, 151] [31, 74, 96, 104, 111, 120, 152] [24, 32, 102, 112, 132, 147, 159] [25, 33, 97, 103, 113, 133, 148] [26, 34, 98, 114, 117, 134, 149] [27, 35, 81, 99, 115, 135, 147] [28, 36, 100, 116, 129, 145, 156] [29, 37, 86, 101, 117, 146, 154] [30, 38, 97, 102, 118, 131, 155] [31, 39, 103, 112, 119, 128, 156] [36, 40, 104, 110, 120, 140, 153] [37, 41, 83, 105, 111, 121, 141] [38, 42, 84, 106, 122, 125, 142] [39, 43, 80, 85, 107, 123, 153] [44, 50, 91, 108, 124, 137, 152] [45, 51, 82, 92, 109, 125, 158] [46, 64, 90, 105, 110, 126, 139] [47, 79, 91, 111, 120, 127, 136] [40, 48, 112, 118, 128, 147, 157] [41, 49, 87, 113, 119, 129, 148] [42, 50, 88, 114, 130, 133, 149] [43, 51, 81, 89, 115, 131, 157] [44, 52, 98, 116, 132, 144, 156] [45, 53, 86, 99, 117, 133, 159] [46, 54, 97, 113, 118, 134, 146] [47, 55, 98, 119, 128, 135, 143] [52, 56, 93, 120, 126, 136, 153] [53, 57, 83, 94, 121, 127, 137] [54, 58, 84, 95, 122, 138, 141] [55, 59, 85, 93, 96, 123, 139] [60, 65, 91, 106, 124, 140, 151] [61, 66, 92, 104, 107, 125, 141] [62, 75, 82, 105, 121, 126, 142] [56, 63, 100, 128, 134, 143, 157] [57, 64, 87, 101, 129, 135, 144] [58, 65, 88, 102, 130, 145, 148] [59, 66, 89, 100, 103, 131, 146] [60, 67, 98, 114, 132, 147, 155] [61, 68, 99, 112, 115, 133, 148] [62, 69, 86, 113, 129, 134, 149] [67, 70, 93, 108, 136, 142, 150] [68, 71, 80, 94, 109, 137, 151] [69, 72, 83, 95, 110, 138, 152] [73, 76, 90, 106, 122, 140, 153] [70, 74, 100, 116, 143, 149, 154] [71, 75, 81, 101, 117, 144, 155] [72, 76, 87, 102, 118, 145, 156] [73, 77, 97, 114, 130, 147, 157] [77, 78, 84, 108, 124, 150, 158] [78, 79, 88, 116, 132, 154, 159]
H_Z (80 checks, sparse supports)
[0, 5, 27, 43, 71, 80, 81] [1, 9, 35, 51, 75, 81, 82] [2, 12, 29, 45, 62, 82, 86] [3, 14, 41, 57, 72, 83, 87] [4, 15, 42, 58, 78, 84, 88] [5, 10, 16, 43, 59, 85, 89] [6, 19, 37, 53, 69, 83, 86] [7, 21, 49, 64, 76, 87, 90] [8, 22, 50, 65, 79, 88, 91] [9, 17, 23, 51, 66, 89, 92] [10, 25, 30, 46, 73, 90, 97] [11, 26, 44, 47, 60, 91, 98] [4, 12, 27, 45, 61, 92, 99] [13, 28, 56, 59, 70, 93, 100] [11, 14, 29, 57, 71, 94, 101] [15, 24, 30, 58, 72, 95, 102] [2, 16, 25, 31, 59, 96, 103] [17, 33, 38, 54, 77, 84, 97] [18, 34, 52, 55, 67, 93, 98] [8, 19, 35, 53, 68, 94, 99] [20, 36, 63, 66, 74, 100, 104] [18, 21, 37, 64, 75, 101, 105] [22, 32, 38, 65, 76, 102, 106] [6, 23, 33, 39, 66, 103, 107] [16, 24, 31, 40, 61, 104, 112] [13, 25, 41, 46, 62, 105, 113] [0, 26, 42, 60, 73, 106, 114] [3, 15, 27, 43, 61, 107, 115] [2, 28, 44, 70, 78, 108, 116] [10, 26, 29, 45, 71, 109, 117] [11, 30, 40, 46, 72, 110, 118] [2, 12, 31, 41, 47, 111, 119] [23, 32, 39, 48, 68, 80, 112] [20, 33, 49, 54, 69, 95, 113] [1, 34, 50, 67, 77, 108, 114] [7, 22, 35, 51, 68, 109, 115] [6, 36, 52, 74, 79, 116, 120] [17, 34, 37, 53, 75, 117, 121] [18, 38, 48, 54, 76, 118, 122] [6, 19, 39, 49, 55, 119, 123] [3, 31, 40, 47, 56, 120, 128] [4, 28, 41, 57, 62, 121, 129] [5, 13, 42, 58, 73, 122, 130] [3, 14, 30, 43, 59, 123, 131] [12, 24, 44, 60, 78, 124, 132] [10, 25, 42, 45, 61, 125, 133] [11, 26, 46, 56, 62, 126, 134] [0, 12, 27, 47, 57, 127, 135] [7, 39, 48, 55, 63, 85, 128] [8, 36, 49, 64, 69, 110, 129] [9, 20, 50, 65, 77, 124, 130] [7, 21, 38, 51, 66, 125, 131] [19, 32, 52, 67, 79, 132, 136] [17, 33, 50, 53, 68, 133, 137] [18, 34, 54, 63, 69, 134, 138] [1, 19, 35, 55, 64, 135, 139] [0, 14, 47, 56, 70, 136, 143] [4, 15, 44, 57, 71, 137, 144] [13, 16, 28, 58, 72, 138, 145] [2, 14, 29, 46, 59, 139, 146] [24, 27, 40, 60, 73, 140, 147] [3, 25, 41, 58, 61, 141, 148] [4, 26, 42, 62, 70, 142, 149] [1, 21, 55, 63, 74, 96, 143] [8, 22, 52, 64, 75, 126, 144] [20, 23, 36, 65, 76, 140, 145] [6, 21, 37, 54, 66, 141, 146] [32, 35, 48, 67, 77, 147, 150] [7, 33, 49, 65, 68, 148, 151] [8, 34, 50, 69, 74, 149, 152] [0, 5, 29, 70, 78, 150, 154] [10, 15, 30, 60, 71, 151, 155] [11, 28, 31, 44, 72, 152, 156] [13, 40, 43, 56, 73, 153, 157] [1, 9, 37, 74, 79, 111, 154] [17, 22, 38, 67, 75, 142, 155] [18, 36, 39, 52, 76, 153, 156] [20, 48, 51, 63, 77, 157, 158] [5, 16, 24, 45, 78, 158, 159] [9, 23, 32, 53, 79, 127, 159]
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