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Quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are an important instance of proto-graph-based LDPC codes. In this paper we present upper bounds on the minimum Hamming distance of QC LDPC codes and study how these upper bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Roxana Smarandache , Pascal O. Vontobel

Geometrically local quantum codes, which are error correction codes embedded in $\mathbb{R}^D$ with checks acting only on qubits within a fixed spatial distance, have garnered significant interest. Recently, it has been demonstrated how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Quinten Eggerickx , Adam Wills , Ting-Chun Lin , Kristiaan De Greve , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Utility-scale quantum computing requires quantum error correction (QEC) to protect quantum information against noise. Currently, superconducting hardware is a promising candidate for achieving fault tolerance due to its fast gate times and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 György P. Gehér , David Byfield , Archibald Ruban

Low-density parity check (LDPC) codes are a significant class of classical codes with many applications. Several good LDPC codes have been constructed using random, algebraic, and finite geometries approaches, with containing cycles of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Salah A. Aly

A major challenge in fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) is to reduce both space overhead -- the large number of physical qubits per logical qubit -- and time overhead -- the long physical gate sequences per logical gate. We prove…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Shiro Tamiya , Masato Koashi , Hayata Yamasaki

Quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, a class of quantum error correcting codes, are considered a blueprint for scalable quantum circuits. To use these codes, one needs efficient decoding algorithms. In the classical setting, there…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Anirudh Krishna , Inbal Livni Navon , Mary Wootters

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes provide a practical balance between error-correction capability and implementation complexity in quantum error correction (QEC). In this paper, we propose an algebraic construction based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Alessio Baldelli , Massimo Battaglioni , Jonathan Mandelbaum , Sisi Miao , Laurent Schmalen

We construct $3$-query relaxed locally decodable codes (RLDCs) with constant alphabet size and length $\tilde{O}(k^2)$ for $k$-bit messages. Combined with the lower bound of $\tilde{\Omega}(k^3)$ of [Alrabiah, Guruswami, Kothari, Manohar,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tom Gur , Dor Minzer , Guy Weissenberg , Kai Zhe Zheng

It is a major challenge to construct good quantum codes supporting fault-tolerant (e.g. transversal) non-Clifford gates with low-weight parity-check measurements. In this paper, we construct the first known quantum codes with linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Louis Golowich , Venkatesan Guruswami

Cyclic codes are an important class of linear codes. Bounding the minimum distance of cyclic codes is a long-standing research topic in coding theory, and several well-known and basic results have been developed on this topic. Recently,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Jing Qiu , Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu

A novel method guaranteeing nondecreasing girth is presented for constructing longer low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes from shorter ones. The parity-check matrix of a shorter base code is decomposed into N (N>=2) non-overlapping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Guohua Zhang , Yulin Hu , Qinwei He

It is an important task to construct quantum maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes with good parameters. In the present paper, we provide six new classes of q-ary quantum MDS codes by using generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu

An array low-density parity-check (LDPC) code is a quasi-cyclic LDPC code specified by two integers $q$ and $m$, where $q$ is an odd prime and $m \leq q$. The exact minimum distance, for small $q$ and $m$, has been calculated, and tight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eirik Rosnes

The problem of finding code distance has been long studied for the generic ensembles of linear codes and led to several algorithms that substantially reduce exponential complexity of this task. However, no asymptotic complexity bounds are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ilya Dumer , Alexey A. Kovalev , Leonid P. Pryadko

We introduce a high-dimensional cubical complex, for any dimension t>0, and apply it to the design of quantum locally testable codes. Our complex is a natural generalization of the constructions by Panteleev and Kalachev and by Dinur et. al…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Irit Dinur , Ting-Chun Lin , Thomas Vidick

Locally Decodable Codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes $C\colon\Sigma^n\rightarrow \Sigma^m,$ encoding \emph{messages} in $\Sigma^n$ to \emph{codewords} in $\Sigma^m$, with super-fast decoding algorithms. They are important mathematical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Alexander R. Block , Jeremiah Blocki , Kuan Cheng , Elena Grigorescu , Xin Li , Yu Zheng , Minshen Zhu

Constant-rate low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are promising candidates for constructing efficient fault-tolerant quantum memories. However, if physical gates are subject to geometric-locality constraints, it becomes challenging to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Christopher A. Pattison , Anirudh Krishna , John Preskill

We present a construction of LDPC codes that have minimum pseudocodeword weight equal to the minimum distance, and perform well with iterative decoding. The construction involves enumerating a d-regular tree for a fixed number of layers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deepak Sridhara , Christine Kelley , Joachim Rosenthal

Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes are quantum stabilizer codes where each stabilizer acts on a constant number of qubits and each qubit is acted on by a constant number of stabilizers. We study qLDPC codes constructed from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Ting-Chun Lin , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

In this paper asymptotic methods are used to form lower bounds on the free distance to constraint length ratio of several ensembles of regular, asymptotically good, protograph-based LDPC convolutional codes. In particular, we show that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-29 David G. M. Mitchell , Ali E. Pusane , Norbert Goertz , Daniel J. Costello