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Measures the depolarizing channel threshold in the 4D cubic toric code, indicating strong error correction capabilities.
We measure the depolarizing-channel threshold of the 4D cubic toric code on the 4-torus T^4 under the BP + OSD-CS-7 decoder (ldpc 2.3.9, min-sum beta=0.625, 50 iterations, parallel schedule), at three sizes: [[768, 6, 8]] (sides 2,4,4,4), [[1152, 6, 12]] (sides 3,4,4,4), and [[1536, 6, 16]] (sides 4,4,4,4). For each (d, p) with p in {0.005, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04, 0.05, 0.06, 0.07, 0.08}, we sample 10,000 independent X-error vectors on the face qubits, decode the Z-syndrome with BP + OSD-CS-7, and classify the residual. Total: 270,000 trials. Across all three sizes and all nine rates the decoder cleared every syndrome (zero uncleared in 270,000 trials). Standard finite-size-scaling extraction places the BP + OSD threshold at p_th ≈ 0.10, 95% CI [0.09, 0.13] (consensus across four independent estimators: deep-below-threshold power-law fit, quadratic FSS restricted to the universal regime, quadratic FSS on all data, and three pairwise crossing-point extrapolations). This is roughly an order of magnitude above the surface-code MWPM threshold (~0.01) and is achieved without single-shot, repeated measurement, or correlated-decoder structure beyond what the off-the-shelf ldpc package provides. The empirical logical-failure curves cleanly separate by code distance up to p ≈ 0.06, with the larger codes suppressing failures by 50–500× at the matched physical rate. Mean correction weights match expected error weights to < 1% at every (d, p), confirming BP + OSD is finding genuine minimum-weight corrections rather than gaming the classifier. This is the stochastic-noise companion to the structured-burst result of DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20301574 on the same code family, which together establish that the 4D cubic toric family on T^4 is well below threshold across the entire near-term physical error-rate regime under a standard decoder. The bundle contains the source (torus_code_4d.py, burst_recheck_v2.py, noise_sweep_v2.py, noise_sweep_v3_high_p.py, fit_threshold_final.py), all per-rate raw counts as JSON (noise_sweep_v2_*.json and noise_sweep_v3_*.json), per-sweep stdout logs, the fit summary (threshold_fit_final.json), the threshold figure (threshold_curve_final.png), and the paper (THRESHOLD_PAPER.md). Reproducible in about 11 minutes on a single x86 VPS core.
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