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I study the interplay of errors with transversal gates in 3D color codes, and introduce some new such gates. Two features of the transversal T gate stand out: (i) it naturally defines a set of correctable errors, and (ii) it exhibits a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Hector Bombin

The gauge field formalism, or operator-valued cochain formalism, has recently emerged as a powerful framework for describing quantum Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes. In this work, we extend this framework to construct a broad class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Junichi Haruna

This article presents new constructions of quantum error correcting Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS for short) codes. These codes are mainly obtained by Sloane's classical combinations of linear codes applied here to the case of self-orthogonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Yannick Saouter , Massinissa Zenia , Gilles Burel

The color code has been invaluable for the development of the theory of fault-tolerant logic gates using transversal rotations. Three-dimensional examples of the color code have shown us how its structure, specifically the intersection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Benjamin J. Brown

Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) quantum error-correcting codes are based on pairs of classical codes which are mutually dual containing. Explicit constructions of such codes for large blocklengths and with good error correcting properties are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-12 Zhicheng Luo

Transversal gates play a crucial role in suppressing error propagation in fault-tolerant quantum computation, yet they are intrinsically constrained: any nontrivial code encoding a single logical qubit admits only a finite subgroup of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Chao Zhang , Zipeng Wu , Shilin Huang , Bei Zeng

Divisible codes are defined by the property that codeword weights share a common divisor greater than one. They are used to design signals for communications and sensing, and this paper explores how they can be used to protect quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Jingzhen Hu , Qingzhong Liang , Robert Calderbank

While quantum low-density parity check (qLDPC) codes are a low-overhead means of quantum information storage, it is valuable for quantum codes to possess fault-tolerant features beyond this resource efficiency. In this work, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Abraham Jacob , Campbell McLauchlan , Dan E. Browne

A divisible binary classical code is one in which every code word has weight divisible by a fixed integer. If the divisor is $2^\nu$ for a positive integer $\nu$, then one can construct a Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) code, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Jeongwan Haah

In this paper, we provide two methods of constructing quantum codes from linear codes over finite chain rings. The first one is derived from the Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) construction applied to self-dual codes over finite chain rings.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Xiusheng Liu , Hualu Liu

Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes are a versatile quantum error-correcting family built out of commuting $X$- and $Z$-type checks. We introduce CSS-like codes on $G$-valued qudits for any finite group $G$ that reduce to qubit CSS codes for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Ben T. McDonough , Jian-Hao Zhang , Victor V. Albert , Andrew Lucas

Constructing quantum codes with good parameters and useful transversal gates is a central problem in quantum error correction. In this paper, we continue our work in arXiv:2502.01864 and construct the first family of asymptotically good…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Zhiyang He , Vinod Vaikuntanathan , Adam Wills , Rachel Yun Zhang

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

This is a note from a series of lectures at Encuentro Colombiano de Computacion Cuantica, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 2015. The purpose is to introduce additive quantum error correcting codes, with emphasis on the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-01 Jeongwan Haah

Simple rate-1/3 single-error-correcting unrestricted and CSS-type quantum convolutional codes are constructed from classical self-orthogonal $\F_4$-linear and $\F_2$-linear convolutional codes, respectively. These quantum convolutional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 G. David Forney, , Saikat Guha

This paper introduces a construction of quantum CSS codes from a tuple of component CSS codes and two collections of subsets. The resulting codes have parallelizable encoding and syndrome measurement circuits and built-in redundancy in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Dimiter Ostrev

A class of powerful $q$-ary linear polynomial codes originally proposed by Xing and Ling is deployed to construct good asymmetric quantum codes via the standard CSS construction. Our quantum codes are $q$-ary block codes that encode $k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Martianus Frederic Ezerman , Somphong Jitman , Patrick Solé

We generalize the concept of folding from surface codes to CSS codes by considering certain dualities within them. In particular, this gives a general method to implement logical operations in suitable LDPC quantum codes using transversal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Nikolas P. Breuckmann , Simon Burton

The development of quantum codes with good error correction parameters and useful sets of transversal gates is a problem of major interest in quantum error-correction. Abundant prior works have studied transversal gates which are restricted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Zhiyang He , Vinod Vaikuntanathan , Adam Wills , Rachel Yun Zhang

Asymmetric quantum error-correcting codes are quantum codes defined over biased quantum channels: qubit-flip and phase-shift errors may have equal or different probabilities. The code construction is the Calderbank-Shor-Steane construction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Johan P. Hansen