Quantum Memory Leaks Input Data with over 92% Accuracy under Damping
New research on execution-transcript privacy in fault-tolerant surface-code memories reports that a memory performing error correction still reveals its stored input with over 92% accuracy under randomised acquisition. For a code with minimal quantum distance dZ=1, the correction record itself leaks the input. The work argues that error correction does not eliminate data vulnerability but moves it into the execution history.
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What this could mean
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This could prompt quantum error correction stack developers to treat syndrome and correction histories as sensitive data and add randomisation or masking to memory readout within the next two years.
The result identifies the correction record as the leak, and existing quantum control systems already log syndrome data; obscuring or limiting access to that record is an incremental software/control change rather than new physics.
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