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Entanglement Increases the Error-Correcting Ability of Quantum Error-Correcting Codes

Quantum Physics 2013-07-23 v2

Abstract

If entanglement is available, the error-correcting ability of quantum codes can be increased. We show how to optimize the minimum distance of an entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting (EAQEC) code, obtained by adding ebits to a standard quantum error-correcting code, over different encoding operators. By this encoding optimization procedure, we found several new EAQEC codes, including a family of [[n, 1, n; n-1]] EAQEC codes for n odd and code parameters [[7, 1, 5; 2]], [[7, 1, 5; 3]], [[9, 1, 7; 4]], [[9, 1, 7; 5]], which saturate the quantum singleton bound for EAQEC codes. A random search algorithm for the encoding optimization procedure is also proposed.

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@article{arxiv.1008.2598,
  title  = {Entanglement Increases the Error-Correcting Ability of Quantum Error-Correcting Codes},
  author = {Ching-Yi Lai and Todd Brun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2598},
  year   = {2013}
}

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39 pages, 10 tables

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