Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2014

Citation

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT 2014) pp. 1086 – 1090 (2014)

Comments

Copyright 2014 IEEE. Used by permission.

Abstract

We survey the existing techniques for calculating code distances of classical codes and apply these techniques to generic quantum codes. For classical and quantum LDPC codes, we also present a new linked-cluster technique. It reduces complexity exponent of all existing deterministic techniques designed for codes with small relative distances (which include all known families of quantum LDPC codes), and also surpasses the probabilistic technique for sufficiently high code rates.

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