Concatenated codes for amplitude damping

Tyler Jackson, Markus Grassl, Bei Zeng

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Abstract

We discuss a method to construct quantum code correcting amplitude-damping errors via code concatenation. The inner codes are chosen as asymmetric Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes. By concatenating with outer code-correcting symmetric errors, many new codes with good parameters are found, which outperform amplitude damping codes obtained by any previously known construction.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - ISIT 2016; 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2269-2273
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509018062
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Aug 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2016 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 10 Jul 201615 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
Volume2016-August
ISSN (Print)2157-8095

Conference

Conference2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2016
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period10/07/1615/07/16

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.

Keywords

  • CSS codes
  • Quantum error-correcting codes
  • amplitude damping channel
  • concatenated codes

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