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  "construction": "Triangular 6.6.6 (hexagonal) colour code, m=3, d=2m+1=7, n=3m^2+3m+1=37. Self-dual CSS: H_X = H_Z = the face-incidence matrix of a triangular patch of the hexagonal lattice. The submitted artifact is the LAYOUT: a non-affine embedding reaching interaction radius r = 2*cos(15 deg) = sqrt(2+sqrt(3)) = 1.9318517, versus 2.0 for the natural hexagonal-lattice drawing.",
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  "date": "2026-07-26",
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  "notes": "The CODE is textbook (Bombin & Martin-Delgado 2D colour codes); provenance.novelty is known_parameters. The contribution is the verified single-layer 2D-local LAYOUT, which is what the board's geometric efficiency g = 4kd^2/(n rho^2 r^4) measures. At r = 1.9318517, rho = 1 this scores g = 0.380, versus 0.331 for the same code on the hexagonal lattice at r = 2.0 and 0.0717 for the best qLDPC entry previously on the board. WHY THE LATTICE LAYOUT WAS STUCK AT EXACTLY 2.0, AND WHY THIS IS NOT: in a regular hexagonal face with vertices v_0..v_5 in cyclic order, v_3 - v_0 = 2 (v_2 - v_1) exactly -- a main diagonal is twice one of the face's own edges, and both pairs lie inside the same weight-6 check. So for ANY affine map M, r >= |M(v_3-v_0)| = 2|M(v_2-v_1)| >= 2 * (min site spacing) = 2. No shear, squeeze or rescale can beat 2.0; the previous layouts were class-optimal, not lazy. The improvement therefore requires leaving the lattice entirely. The optimum found is a 30-degree-quantized (snub-square / elongated-triangular) motif whose forced diameter is 2*cos(15 deg), reached by basin hopping seeded from the lattice layout from two independent seeds. This code has genuine bulk (18 weight-6 faces), so the compression is not a boundary artifact. LOWER BOUND: the packing floor for a weight-6 check is D_6 = 2*sin(72 deg) = 1.9021130 (attained by a regular pentagon of circumradius 1 plus its centre -- notably not a hexagon), but 5-fold symmetry cannot tile a plane with shared face vertices, so 1.9021 is believed unreachable and 1.9318517 the true optimum for a tileable weight-6 layout. That is a well-supported conjecture, not a proof. Distance is filed as upper_bound; the witness is the CLI's own RIS search.",
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  "references": [
   "arXiv:quant-ph/0605138 (Bombin & Martin-Delgado, Topological quantum distillation)",
   "arXiv:1108.5738",
   "errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/triangular_color"
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