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Generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes, where single parity-check constraints on the code bits are replaced with generalized constraints (an arbitrary linear code), are a promising class of codes for low-latency communication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Roxana Smarandache , David G. M. Mitchell , Anthony Gómez-Fonseca

The iterative decoding threshold of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over the binary erasure channel (BEC) fulfills an upper bound depending only on the variable and check nodes with minimum distance 2. This bound is a consequence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-28 Enrico Paolini , Marc Fossorier , Marco Chiani

In this paper we discuss combinatorial questions about lattice polytopes motivated by recent results on minimum distance estimation for toric codes. We also prove a new inductive bound for the minimum distance of generalized toric codes. As…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Ivan Soprunov

In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for extracting topological data from translation invariant generalized Pauli stabilizer codes in two-dimensional systems, focusing on the analysis of anyon excitations and string operators. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Zijian Liang , Yijia Xu , Joseph T. Iosue , Yu-An Chen

The two-dimensional color code is an alternative to the toric code that encodes more logical qubits while maintaining crucial features of the $\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2$ toric code in the long wavelength limit. However its short range…

Due to their capacity approaching performance low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes gained a lot of attention in the last years. The parity-check matrix of the codes can be associated with a bipartite graph, called Tanner graph. To decrease…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Elisa Junghans , Julia Lieb

Recently, Branco da Silva and Silva described an efficient encoding and decoding algorithm for Construction D$^\prime$ lattices. Using their algorithm, we propose a Construction D$^\prime$ lattice based on binary quasi-cyclic low-density…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Siyu Chen , Brian M. Kurkoski , Eirik Rosnes

We study approximate quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes, which are approximate quantum error-correcting codes specified as the ground space of a frustration-free local Hamiltonian, whose terms do not necessarily commute. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-13 Thomas C. Bohdanowicz , Elizabeth Crosson , Chinmay Nirkhe , Henry Yuen

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.…

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

This study proposes an explicit construction method for quantum quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes with a girth of 12. The proposed method designs parity-check matrices that maximize the girth while maintaining an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Daiki Komoto , Kenta Kasai

A novel method guaranteeing nondecreasing girth is presented for constructing longer low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes from shorter ones. The parity-check matrix of a shorter base code is decomposed into N (N>=2) non-overlapping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Guohua Zhang , Yulin Hu , Qinwei He

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

Three dimensional (3D) toric codes are a class of stabilizer codes with local checks and come under the umbrella of topological codes. While decoding algorithms have been proposed for the 3D toric code on a cubic lattice, there have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Arun B. Aloshious , Pradeep Kiran Sarvepalli

We examine general Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes for continuous-variable quantum error correction, including concatenated GKP codes, through the lens of lattice theory, in order to better understand the structure of this class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Jonathan Conrad , Jens Eisert , Francesco Arzani

Directional codes, recently introduced by Geh\'er--Byfield--Ruban \cite{Geher2025Directional}, constitute a hardware-motivated family of quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes. These codes are defined by stabilizers measured by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Mohammad Rowshan

In this paper, we prove how to extend a subset of quantum stabilizer codes into a qudit hybrid code storing $\log_2 p$ classical bits over a qudit space with dimension $p$, with $p$ prime. Our proof also gives an explicit procedure for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Lane G. Gunderman

Quantum low-density parity-check codes, such as the Kitaev toric code and bivariate bicycle codes, are often defined with periodic boundary conditions, which are difficult to realize in physical systems. In this paper, we present an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zijian Liang , Bowen Yang , Joseph T. Iosue , Yu-An Chen

As in classical coding theory, quantum analogues of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have offered good error correction performance and low decoding complexity by employing the Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) construction. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Yuichiro Fujiwara , Vladimir D. Tonchev

We consider geometric methods of ``rotating" the toric code in higher dimensions to reduce the qubit count. These geometric methods can be used to prepare higher dimensional toric code states using single shot techniques, and in turn these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 David Aasen , Jeongwan Haah , Matthew B. Hastings , Zhenghan Wang