Spatially coupled quantum LDPC codes

Iryna Andriyanova (1) , Denise Maurice (2) , Jean-Pierre Tillich (2)

1 ETIS - UMR 8051 - Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes
2 SECRET - Security, Cryptology and Transmissions

We propose here a new construction of spatially coupled quantum LDPC codes using a small amount of entangled qubit pairs shared between the encoder and the decoder which improves quite significantly all other constructions of quantum LDPC codes and turbo codes with the same rate.

Domaines: Théorie de l'information [cs.IT]; Théorie de l'information et codage [math.IT]

Iryna Andriyanova, Denise Maurice, Jean-Pierre Tillich. Spatially coupled quantum LDPC codes. IEEE Workshop on Information Theory Proceedings - ITW 2012, Sep 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland. pp.327-333. ⟨hal-00770232⟩