Constructing quantum error-correcting codes for p^m-state systems from classical error-correcting codes

1999/11/30 by Ryutaroh Matsumoto, Tomohiko Uyematsu
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph

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published as IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. E83-A, no. 10, pp. 1878-1883, Oct. 2000. Available from http://search.ieice.org/ · 10 pages, LaTeX2e. To appear in IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (ISSN 0916-8508), vol. E83-A, no. 10, Oct. 2000. Revision on Dec. 14, 1999: Added a note on a systematic construction of quantum codes with efficient decoding algorithms. Revision on June 26, 2000: Corrected lots of errors, and added a review on the overall error correction process. No original materials were added

Abstract

We generalize the construction of quantum error-correcting codes from GF(4)-linear codes by Calderbank et al. to p^m-state systems. Then we show how to determine the error from a syndrome. Finally we discuss a systematic construction of quantum codes with efficient decoding algorithms.

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