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While low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are near capacity-achieving when paired with iterative decoders, these decoders may not output a codeword due to the existence of pseudocodewords. Thus, pseudocodewords have been studied to give…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Wittawat Kositwattanarerk , Gretchen L. Matthews , Emily McMillon , Tunchanok Yutitumsatit

We present a new family of low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes that can be designed using ordered sets of progressive differences. We study their properties and define a subset of codes in this class that have some desirable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Marco Baldi , Marco Bianchi , Giovanni Cancellieri , Franco Chiaraluce

In pursuit of large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computation, quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have been established as promising candidates for low-overhead memory when compared to conventional approaches based on surface…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Zhiyang He , Alexander Cowtan , Dominic J. Williamson , Theodore J. Yoder

As a generalization of cyclic codes, quasi-cyclic (QC) codes contain many good linear codes. But quasi-cyclic codes studied so far are mainly limited to one generator (1-generator) QC codes. In this correspondence, 2-generator and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Eric Zhi Chen

We discuss error-correction properties for families of quantum low-density parity check (LDPC) codes with relative distance that tends to zero in the limit of large blocklength. In particular, we show that any family of LDPC codes, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 Alexey A. Kovalev , Leonid P. Pryadko

A protograph-based low-density parity-check (LDPC) code design technique for bandwidth-efficient coded modulation is presented. The approach jointly optimizes the LDPC code node degrees and the mapping of the coded bits to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Fabian Steiner , Georg Böcherer , Gianluigi Liva

Density evolution for protograph Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes is considered, and it is shown that the message-error rate falls double-exponentially with iterations whenever the degree-2 subgraph of the protograph is cycle-free and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Asit Kumar Pradhan , Andrew Thangaraj , Arunkumar Subramanian

Codes constructed from connected spatially coupled low-density parity-check code (SC-LDPCC) chains are proposed and analyzed. It is demonstrated that connecting coupled chains results in improved iterative decoding performance. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Dmitri Truhachev , David G. M. Mitchell , Michael Lentmaier , Daniel J. Costello,

LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) codes are among the most powerful and widely adopted modern error correcting codes. The iterative decoding algorithms required for these codes involve high computational complexity and high processing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-16 Carlo Condo , Guido Masera

In this paper, we study a new class of high-rate spatially coupled LDPC (SC-LDPC) codes based on the convolutional self-orthogonal codes (CSOCs) first introduced by Massey. The SC-LDPC codes are constructed by treating the irregular graph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Daniel J. Costello, , Min Zhu , David G. M. Mitchell , Michael Lentmaier

We present the Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) forward error correction algorithm adapted for the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol in a form readily applied by developers. A sparse parity check matrix is required for the LDPC…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-03 Alan Mink , Anastase Nakassis

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes offer a promising path to low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computation but lack systematic strategies for exploration. In this Letter, we establish a topological framework for studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Keyang Chen , Yuanting Liu , Yiming Zhang , Zijian Liang , Yu-An Chen , Ke Liu , Hao Song

Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes can be implemented by measuring only low-weight checks, making them compatible with noisy quantum hardware and central to the quest to build noise-resilient quantum computers. A fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Lily Wang , Andy Zeyi Liu , Ray Li , Aleksander Kubica , Shouzhen Gu

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are among the most prominent error-correction schemes. They find application to fortify various modern storage, communication, and computing systems. Protograph-based (PB) LDPC codes offer many degrees…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Ata Tanrıkulu , Mete Yıldırım , Ahmed Hareedy

In this paper, we focus on the two-user Gaussian interference channel (GIC), and study the Han-Kobayashi (HK) coding/decoding strategy with the objective of designing low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. A code optimization algorithm is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Shahrouz Sharifi , A. Korhan Tanc , Tolga M. Duman

Quantum error correction suppresses noise in quantum systems to allow for high-precision computations. In this work, we introduce Multivariate Bicycle (MB) Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (QLDPC) codes, via an extension of the framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Lukas Voss , Sim Jian Xian , Tobias Haug , Kishor Bharti

The complexity-performance trade-off is a fundamental aspect of the design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. In this paper, we consider LDPC codes for the binary erasure channel (BEC), use code rate for performance metric, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vahid Jamali , Yasser Karimian , Johannes Huber , Mahmoud Ahmadian

We propose and analyze a hierarchical quantum error correction (QEC) scheme that concatenates hypergraph product (HGP) codes with rotated surface codes, which is compatible with quantum computers with only nearest-neighbor interactions. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Junichi Haruna , Keisuke Fujii

The McEliece cryptosystem is a public-key cryptosystem based on coding theory that has successfully resisted cryptanalysis for thirty years. The original version, based on Goppa codes, is able to guarantee a high level of security, and is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-20 Marco Baldi

Quantum low-density parity check (qLDPC) codes offer higher encoding rate than topological codes, e.g. surface codes, making them favourable for practical, fault-tolerant quantum computing with low overhead. These codes are particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Susan X. Chen , Matthias C. Löbl , Ming Lai Chan , Anders S. Sørensen , Stefano Paesani