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Quantum low-density parity-check codes are promising candidates towards scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation. Among these, bivariate bicycle (BB) codes offer superior encoding rates and large code distance compared to surface codes.…

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes, known for their threshold saturation phenomenon and low-latency windowed decoding algorithms, are ideal for streaming applications and data storage systems. SC codes are constructed by partitioning an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

In this paper, we analyze the finite-length performance of codes on graphs constructed by connecting spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) code chains. Successive (peeling) decoding is considered for the binary erasure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Pablo M. Olmos , David G. M. Mitchell , Dmitri Truhachev , Daniel J. Costello

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

Quantum LDPC codes may provide a path to build low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computers. However, as general LDPC codes lack geometric constraints, na\"ive layouts couple many distant qubits with crossing connections which could be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Maxime A. Tremblay , Nicolas Delfosse , Michael E. Beverland

The peeling decoding for spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes is analyzed for a binary erasure channel. An analytical calculation of the mean evolution of degree-one check nodes of protograph-based SC-LDPC codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Markus Stinner Pablo M. Olmos

We study the design of spectrally efficient fiber-optical communication systems based on different spatially coupled (SC) forward error correction (FEC) schemes. In particular, we optimize the allocation of the coded bits from the FEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Christian Häger , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström , Alex Alvarado , Erik Agrell

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes, known for their threshold saturation phenomenon and low-latency windowed decoding algorithms, are ideal for streaming applications. They also find application in various data storage systems because of their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Shyam Venkatasubramanian , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

Quantum error correction (QEC) is a cornerstone of quantum computing, enabling reliable information processing in the presence of noise. Sparse stabilizer codes -- referred to generally as quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Bane Vasic , Valentin Savin , Michele Pacenti , Shantom Borah , Nithin Raveendran

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

Due to their fast decoding algorithms, quantum generalizations of low-density parity check, or LDPC, codes have been investigated as a solution to the problem of decoherence in fragile quantum states. However, the additional twisted inner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-04 Jacob Farinholt

We investigate random spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) code ensembles over finite fields. Under different variable-node edge-spreading rules, the random Tanner graphs of several coupled ensembles are defined by multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jiaxin Lyu , Guanghui He

This paper investigates the design of self-connected spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes. First, a termination method is proposed to reduce rate loss. Particularly, a single-side open SC-LDPC ensemble is introduced,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yihuan Liao , Min Qiu , Jinhong Yuan

Quantum codes with low-weight stabilizers known as LDPC codes have been actively studied recently due to their simple syndrome readout circuits and potential applications in fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, all families of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-20 Sergey Bravyi , Matthew B. Hastings

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes are a class of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that is gaining increasing attention. Multi-dimensional (MD) SC codes are constructed by connecting copies of an SC code via relocations in order to mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ata Tanrıkulu , Mete Yıldırım , Ahmed Hareedy

For any positive integer $g \ge 2$, we derive general condition for the existence of a $2g$-cycle in the Tanner graph of two-dimensional ($2$-D) classical quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Depending on whether $p$ is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pavan Kumar , Shayan Srinivasa Garani

Spatially coupled, parallel concatenated codes (SC-PCCs) have been shown to approach channel capacity when decoded using optimal iterative methods. However, under complexity constraints such decoding strategies can result in unacceptable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Andrew D. Cummins , David G. M. Mitchell , Daniel J. Costello,

We propose a novel encoding/transmission scheme called continuous chain (CC) transmission that is able to improve the finite-length performance of a system using spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes. In CC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Pablo M. Olmos , David G. M. Mitchell , Dmitri Truhachev , Daniel J. Costello

A novel coding strategy for block-based compressive sens-ing named spatially directional predictive coding (SDPC) is proposed, which efficiently utilizes the intrinsic spatial cor-relation of natural images. At the encoder, for each block…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jian Zhang , Debin Zhao , Feng Jiang

In this paper, we give an overview of spatially coupled turbo codes (SC-TCs), the spatial coupling of parallel and serially concatenated convolutional codes, recently introduced by the authors. For presentation purposes, we focus on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Alexandre Graell i Amat , Saeedeh Moloudi , Michael Lentmaier