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We propose fault-tolerant encoders for quantum low-density parity check (LDPC) codes. By grouping qubits within a quantum code over contiguous blocks and applying preshared entanglement across these blocks, we show how transversal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 Abhi Kumar Sharma , Shayan Srinivasa Garani

We introduce Decision Tree Decoders (DTDs), which rely only on the sparsity of the binary check matrix, making them broadly applicable for decoding any quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) code and fault-tolerant quantum circuits. DTDs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Kai R. Ott , Bence Hetényi , Michael E. Beverland

In this paper, we propose an efficient decoding algorithm for short low-density parity check (LDPC) codes by carefully combining the belief propagation (BP) decoding and order statistic decoding (OSD) algorithms. Specifically, a modified BP…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Weiyang Zhang , Chentao Yue , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

An ensemble of LDPC convolutional codes with parity-check matrices composed of permutation matrices is considered. The convergence of the iterative belief propagation based decoder for terminated convolutional codes in the ensemble is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Michael Lentmaier , Arvind Sridharan , Kamil Sh. Zigangirov , Daniel J. Costello

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes have been shown to exhibit excellent performance under low-complexity belief-propagation decoding [1], [2]. This phenomenon is now termed threshold saturation via spatial coupling. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Santhosh Kumar , Andrew J. Young , Nicolas Macris , Henry D. Pfister

This paper gives necessary and sufficient conditions for the Tanner graph of a quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) code based on the all-one protograph to have girth 6, 8, 10, and 12, respectively, in the case of parity-check…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Anthony Gómez-Fonseca , Roxana Smarandache , David G. M. Mitchell

We derive two families of EA-QC quantum LDPC (EA-QC-QLDPC) codes by tiling permutation matrices of prime and composite orders. The unassisted portion of the Tanner graphs corresponding to these codes, constructed from two distinct classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Pavan Kumar , Abhi Kumar Sharma , Shayan Srinivasa Garani

We study a construction of Quantum LDPC codes proposed by MacKay, Mitchison and Shokrollahi. It is based on the Cayley graph of Fn together with a set of generators regarded as the columns of the parity-check matrix of a classical code. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Alain Couvreur , Nicolas Delfosse , Gilles Zémor

Quantum cryptography via key distribution mechanisms that utilize quantum entanglement between sender-receiver pairs will form the basis of future large-scale quantum networks. A key engineering challenge in such networks will be the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Yixuan Xie , Jun Li , Robert Malaney , Jinhong Yuan

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes together with belief propagation (BP) decoding yield exceptional error correction capabilities in the large block length regime. Yet, there remains a gap between BP decoding and maximum likelihood…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jonathan Mandelbaum , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

This paper revisits the connection between the girth of a protograph-based LDPC code given by a parity-check matrix and the properties of powers of the product between the matrix and its transpose in order to obtain the necessary and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Roxana Smarandache , David G. M. Mitchell

Distributed storage systems suffer from significant repair traffic generated due to frequent storage node failures. This paper shows that properly designed low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes can substantially reduce the amount of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Hyegyeong Park , Dongwon Lee , Jaekyun Moon

Linear Programming (LP) decoding of Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes has attracted much attention in the research community in the past few years. The aim of LP decoding is to develop an algorithm which has error-correcting performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-05 Mayur Punekar , Mark F. Flanagan

Low density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a class of linear block codes that are decoded by running belief propagation (BP) algorithm or log-likelihood ratio belief propagation (LLR-BP) over the factor graph of the code. One of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-15 A. Dinesh Kumar , Ambedkar Dukkipati

In this paper, we introduce a new family of stabilizer quantum LDPC codes derived from the classical linear codes $L_k$ and $L_k^{+}$, defined via sub-exceding functions. In previous work, these codes demonstrated strong performance in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Luc Rabefihavanana , Harinaivo Andriatahiny , Randriamiarampanahy Ferdinand

This paper considers the achievable rates and decoding complexity of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over statistically independent parallel channels. The paper starts with the derivation of bounds on the conditional entropy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Igal Sason , Gil Wiechman

High-rate quantum error correcting (QEC) codes with moderate overheads in qubit number and control complexity are highly desirable for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing. Recently, quantum error correction has experienced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Laura Pecorari , Sven Jandura , Gavin K. Brennen , Guido Pupillo

We introduce univariate bicycle (UB) codes, a structured subclass of generalized bicycle (GB) quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes obtained via a Frobenius relation. This construction reduces the code design space from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Sheida Rabeti , Hessam Mahdavifar

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

A method for estimating the performance of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes decoded by hard-decision iterative decoding algorithms on binary symmetric channels (BSC) is proposed. Based on the enumeration of the smallest weight error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Hua Xiao , Amir H. Banihashemi