Lesson 121: Shot noise vs decoherence slicing
Focus
Assume every diagram must map to topology and basis gates—not textbook abstractions alone. Token Shot noise vs decoherence slicing:121 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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870553. - Habit: pair each job with shot budget, mitigation profile, and a calibration fingerprint you could paste.
- Guardrail: write one line about where classical cost dominated the timeline.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Transpilation checklist
- [ ] basis translation logged for `iswap+cz blend`
- [ ] SWAP count vs manual estimate delta noted
- [ ] layout seed `S-1889`
Rollback triggers: CX depth > THRESH-152 OR queue SLA breach without mitigation flip.
Practice
Practice List five failure signatures unique to your organiser’s QPUs or simulators. — 121 Bump literals mindset by 16.