Color Codes: Executing Transversal Clifford Operations and Topological Syndrome Extraction on Tri-Colored Lattices
Every digital transaction that underpins the modern global economy—from encrypted bank transfers and confidential medical databases to the classified diplomatic cables traversing international fiber-optic backbones—relies on mathematical problems that would take the fastest classical supercomputers thousands of years to unravel. A fully fault-tolerant quantum computer could neutralize that entire cryptographic foundation in an afternoon.