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Stabilizer codes lie at the heart of modern quantum-error-correcting codes (QECC). Of particular importance is a class called Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes, which includes many important examples such as toric codes, color codes, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Ryotaro Niwa , Jong Yeon Lee

Given a Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) code, it is sometimes necessary to modify the code by adding an arbitrary number of physical qubits and parity checks. Motivations may include concatenating codes, embedding low-density parity check…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Andrew C. Yuan

In this note, we present a construction of new nonbinary quantum codes with good parameters. These codes are obtained by applying the Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) construction. In order to do this, we show the existence of (classical)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Giuliano G. La Guardia

Quantum synchronizable codes are quantum error correcting codes that can correct not only Pauli errors but also errors in block synchronization. The code can be constructed from two classical cyclic codes $\mathcal{C}$, $\mathcal{D}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Theerapat Tansuwannont , Andrew Nemec

A construction is presented that allows to produce subspace codes of long length using subspace codes of shorter length in combination with a rank metric code. The subspace distance of the resulting code, called linkage code, is as good as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Carolyn Troha

Generalized code surgery is a versatile and low-overhead technique for performing fault-tolerant computation on quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes. In many settings, surgery exhibits practical space overheads, while its time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Kathleen Chang , Zhiyang He , Theodore J. Yoder , Guanyu Zhu , Tomas Jochym-O'Connor

Quantum error-correcting codes with high encoding rate are good candidates for large-scale quantum computers as they use physical qubits more efficiently than codes of the same distance that encode only a few logical qubits. Some logical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Theerapat Tansuwannont , Yugo Takada , Keisuke Fujii

Spatially-coupled (SC) LDPC codes have recently emerged as an excellent choice for error correction in modern data storage and communication systems due to their outstanding performance. It has long been known that irregular graph codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Ruiyi Wu , Lara Dolecek

Building scalable quantum computers requires quantum error-correcting codes that enable reliable operations in the presence of noise. Motivated by such need, this paper introduces two constructions of high-rate, quantum dual-containing (DC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alessio Baldelli , Marco Baldi , Massimo Battaglioni , Franco Chiaraluce , Paolo Santini

We propose a method for modifying orthogonal sparse matrix pairs used in CSS codes while preserving their matrix row and column weight distributions, which play a crucial role in determining the performance of belief-propagation decoding.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Koki Okada , Kenta Kasai

We introduce multivariate multicycle (MM) codes, a new family of quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) that unifies bivariate bicycle, multivariate bicycle, abelian two-block group algebra, generalized bicycle, trivariate tricycle, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Feroz Ahmed Mian , Owen Gwilliam , Stefan Krastanov

We investigate the class of CSS-$T$ codes, a family of quantum error-correcting codes that allows for a transversal $T$-gate. We extend the definition of a pair of linear codes $(C_1,C_2)$, $C_i\subseteq\mathbb{F}_q^n$, forming a $q$-ary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Jasper J. Postema , F. Conca , A. Ravagnani

Spatially-Coupled (SC)-LDPC codes are known to have outstanding error-correction performance and low decoding latency. Whereas previous works on LDPC and SC-LDPC codes mostly take either an asymptotic or a finite-length design approach, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Eshed Ram , Yuval Cassuto , Lara Dolecek

In recent years, surface codes have become a leading method for quantum error correction in theoretical large scale computational and communications architecture designs. Their comparatively high fault-tolerant thresholds and their natural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Dominic Horsman , Austin G. Fowler , Simon Devitt , Rodney Van Meter

A conjugate code pair is defined as a pair of linear codes either of which contains the dual of the other. A conjugate code pair represents the essential structure of the corresponding Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) quantum error-correcting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Mitsuru Hamada

This paper develops a two-branch multiplicative-coset construction for regular Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) quantum low-density parity-check base matrices. For a target column weight \(J\) and an even row weight \(L\), the method reduces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Koki Okada , Kenta Kasai

This paper introduces a framework for constructing Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes that support fault-tolerant logical transversal $Z$-rotations. Using this framework, we obtain asymptotically good CSS codes that fault-tolerantly realize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 K. Sai Mineesh Reddy , Navin Kashyap

In this paper, we utilize a concatenation scheme to construct new families of quantum error correction codes achieving the quantum Gilbert-Varshamov (GV) bound asymptotically. We concatenate alternant codes with any linear code achieving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Jihao Fan , Jun Li , Ya Wang , Yonghui Li , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Jiangfeng Du

SC-LDPC codes with sub-block locality can be decoded locally at the level of sub-blocks that are much smaller than the full code block, thus providing fast access to the coded information. The same code can also be decoded globally using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Eshed Ram , Yuval Cassuto , Lara Dolecek

The CSS code construction is a powerful framework used to express features of a quantum code in terms of a pair of underlying classical codes. Its subsystem extension allows for similar expressions, but the general case has not been fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Michael Liaofan Liu , Nathanan Tantivasadakarn , Victor V. Albert