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Vast numbers of qubits will be needed for large-scale quantum computing due to the overheads associated with error correction. We present a scheme for low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computation based on quantum low-density parity-check…

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Classical low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a widely deployed and well-established technology, forming the backbone of modern communication and storage systems. It is well known that, in this classical setting, increasing the girth…

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Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes are among the most promising candidates for future quantum error correction schemes. However, a limited number of short to moderate-length QLDPC codes have been designed and their decoding…

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Recent progress in quantum computing has enabled systems with tens of reliable logical qubits, built from thousands of noisy physical qubits. However, many impactful applications demand quantum computations with millions of logical qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Daiki Komoto , Kenta Kasai

Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes are a promising construction for drastically reducing the overhead of fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) architectures. However, all of the known hardware implementations of these codes…

We introduce the hemicubic codes, a family of quantum codes obtained by associating qubits with the $p$-faces of the $n$-cube (for $n>p$) and stabilizer constraints with faces of dimension $(p\pm1)$. The quantum code obtained by identifying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Anthony Leverrier , Vivien Londe , Gilles Zémor

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

We present new upper and lower bounds on the minimum distance of certain generalized bicycle (GB) codes beyond the reach of techniques for classical codes capable of even capturing the true minimum distance for some cases. These bounds are…

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

We introduce and analyze a family of Clifford-deformed bivariate bicycle codes that are tailored for biased noise. Our qLDPC codes are defined on a bipartite hexagonal lattice with limited-range gates and low-weight stabilizers. The code is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Catherine Leroux , Joseph K. Iverson

Two upper bounds on the minimum distance of type-1 quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC LDPC) codes are derived. The necessary condition is given for the minimum code distance of such codes to grow linearly with the code length.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-10 Alexey Frolov , Pavel Rybin

We discuss quantum two-block codes, a large class of CSS codes constructed from two commuting square matrices.Interesting families of such codes are generalized-bicycle (GB) codes and two-block group-algebra (2BGA) codes, where a cyclic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Renyu Wang , Hsiang-Ku Lin , Leonid P. Pryadko

For $n \ge 3$, we demonstrate the existence of quantum codes which are local in dimension $n$ with $V$ qubits, distance $V^{\frac{n-1}{n}}$, and dimension $V^{\frac{n-2}{n}}$, up to a $polylog(V)$ factor. The distance is optimal up to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Elia Portnoy

We present new constructions of binary quantum codes from quaternary linear Hermitian self-dual codes. Our main ingredients for these constructions are nearly self-orthogonal cyclic or duadic codes over F_4. An infinite family of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Reza Dastbasteh , Petr Lisonek

We introduce a "hyperbicycle" ansatz for quantum codes which gives the hypergraph-product (generalized toric) codes by Tillich and Z\'emor and generalized bicycle codes by MacKay et al. as limiting cases. The construction allows for both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Alexey A. Kovalev , Leonid P. Pryadko

The techniques of distance verification known for general linear codes are re-applied to quantum stabilizer codes. Then distance verification is addressed for classical and quantum LDPC codes. New complexity bounds for distance verification…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Ilya Dumer , Alexey A. Kovalev , Leonid P. Pryadko

We study parallel fault-tolerant quantum computing for families of homological quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes defined on 3-manifolds with constant or almost-constant encoding rate. We derive generic formula for a transversal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Guanyu Zhu , Shehryar Sikander , Elia Portnoy , Andrew W. Cross , Benjamin J. Brown

Minimum distance is an important parameter of a linear error correcting code. For improved performance of binary Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, we need to have the minimum distance grow fast with n, the codelength. However, the best…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-12 Rethnakaran Pulikkoonattu

We develop a topological theory for fault-tolerant quantum computation in quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes. We show that there exist hidden simplicial or CW complex structures encoding the topological data for all qLDPC and…

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