Ensemble Dependence of the Critical Exponent at a Quantum Error Correction Threshold

Unlike in conventional thermodynamics, the critical behavior of quantum error-correction thresholds can depend strongly on how noise is described, with different ensembles producing different scaling laws arxiv.org/abs/2609.21886 In thermodynamics it is common to assume that the choice of ensemble (e.g., micro-canonical, canonical, or grand-canonical) should not affect the underlying physics in th