Convolutional and Tail-Biting Quantum Error-Correcting Codes

摘要

Rate-(n-2) unrestricted and CSS-type quantum convolutional codes with up to 4096 states and minimum distances up to 10 are constructed as stabilizer codes from classical self-orthogonal rate-1 F4-linear and binary linear convolutional codes, respectively. These codes generally have higher rate and less decoding complexity than comparable quantum block codes or previous quantum convolutional codes. Rate-(n-2) block stabilizer codes with the same rate and error-correction capability and essentially the same decoding complexity are derived from these convolutional codes via tail-biting