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We investigate the use of Gallager's low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes in a broadcast channel, one of the fundamental models in network information theory. Combining linear codes is a standard technique in practical network…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazutaka Nakamura , Robert Morelos-Zaragoza , David Saad , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Recently, it was observed that spatially-coupled LDPC code ensembles approach the Shannon capacity for a class of binary-input memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels. The fundamental reason for this was attributed to a "threshold saturation"…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-29 Shrinivas Kudekar , Henry D. Pfister

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

Quantum error correction (QEC) is critical for practical realization of fault-tolerant quantum computing, and recently proposed families of quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) code are prime candidates for advanced QEC hardware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Nithin Raveendran , David Declercq , Bane Vasić

We study ensembles of codes on graphs (generalized low-density parity-check, or LDPC codes) constructed from random graphs and fixed local constrained codes, and their extension to codes on hypergraphs. It is known that the average minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Alexander Barg , Arya Mazumdar

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have been used for communication over a two-user Gaussian broadcast channel. It has been shown in the literature that the optimal decoding of such system requires joint decoding of both user messages at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mahdi Ramezani , Masoud Ardakani

We consider the dynamics of message passing for spatially coupled codes and, in particular, the set of density evolution equations that tracks the profile of decoding errors along the spatial direction of coupling. It is known that, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Rafah El-Khatib , Nicolas Macris

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes is a class of convolutional LDPC codes that has been well investigated in classical coding theory thanks to their high performance and compatibility with low-latency decoders. We describe toric codes as quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Siyi Yang , Robert Calderbank

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes are a class of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that have excellent performance thanks to the degrees of freedom they offer. An SC code is designed by partitioning a base matrix into components, the number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bade Aksoy , Doğukan Özbayrak , Ahmed Hareedy

In this paper, we introduce the concept of spatially coupled turbo codes (SC-TCs), as the turbo codes counterpart of spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes. We describe spatial coupling for both Berrou et al. and Benedetto et al.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Saeedeh Moloudi , Michael Lentmaier , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Ensembles of (J,K)-regular low-density parity-check convolutional (LDPCC) codes are known to be asymptotically good, in the sense that the minimum free distance grows linearly with the constraint length. In this paper, we use a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 David G. M. Mitchell , Ali E. Pusane , Michael Lentmaier , Daniel J. Costello

Fault tolerance in quantum protocols requires contributions from error-correcting codes and their suitable decoders. Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes are one of the most explored quantum codes that have good coding rate and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Mainak Bhattacharyya , Ankur Raina

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes on symmetric memoryless channels have been analyzed using statistical physics by several authors. In this paper, statistical mechanical analysis of LDPC codes is performed for asymmetric memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Ryuhei Mori , Toshiyuki Tanaka

We show that belief propagation combined with ordered statistics post-processing is a general decoder for quantum low density parity check codes constructed from the hypergraph product. To this end, we run numerical simulations of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Joschka Roffe , David R. White , Simon Burton , Earl T. Campbell

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

Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes received much attention recently due to their capacity-approaching performance. The iterative message-passing algorithm is a widely adopted decoding algorithm for LDPC codes \cite{Kschischang01}. An…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-27 Xudong Ma , En-hui Yang

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

This paper develops a general method for constructing entanglement-assisted quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, which is based on combinatorial design theory. Explicit constructions are given for entanglement-assisted quantum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-28 Yuichiro Fujiwara , David Clark , Peter Vandendriessche , Maarten De Boeck , Vladimir D. Tonchev

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes offer a promising route to scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation, but their performance under iterative decoding is strongly influenced by short-cycle structure and other harmful…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Anthony Gómez-Fonseca , Gretchen L. Matthews , Kirsten D. Morris , Tefjol Pllaha

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