Red Dead Redemption 2 Players Uncover a New Mystery

As a big fan of games like Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto, I’m used to Rockstar hiding all sorts of cool stuff – Easter eggs, strange mysteries, even UFOs! They’ve always loved messing with us, sometimes with really elaborate secrets and other times by jokingly telling us there’s nothing to find. Red Dead Redemption 2 is such a huge game, and honestly, I figured we’d found everything by now. But it turns out players are starting to uncover a brand new mystery, which is super exciting!







![The study of the [latex]\mathbb{Z}_N[/latex] toric code under XX-type dephasing reveals a nuanced relationship between code size and quantum information protection, demonstrating that while codes with [latex]N \leq 4[/latex] exhibit a clear transition from fully decodable to completely lost information, larger codes ([latex]N > 4[/latex]) possess an intermediate quasi-long-range order (QLRO) phase where a finite, yet diminishing, fraction of logical information remains protected-a fraction that expands with increasing code size-and critical temperatures consistently approximate 0.38, aligning with self-dual identities.](https://arxiv.org/html/2512.22121v1/x5.png)