J4 ›› 2010, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (6): 1005-1010.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2010.06.005

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Construction and decoding of nonbinary quantum LDPC codes

SHAO Jun-hu;BAI Bao-ming;LIN Wei;ZHOU Lin   

  1. (State Key Lab. of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2009-11-10 Online:2010-12-20 Published:2011-01-22
  • Contact: SHAO Jun-hu E-mail:jhshao@mail.xidian.edu.cn

Abstract:

Nonbinary quantum codes are more suitable for error-correction in multi-level quantum systems. Based on stabilizer formalism over the finite field, a class of nonbinary quantum LDPC codes is presented in this paper. And the BP iterative decoding algorithm for these codes is described under the quantum depolarizing channel with the Monte Carlo simulation method. For example, a class of CSS structure 4-ary quantum LDPC codes is given with code rates 1/2 and 1/4. Compared with the present binary quantum LDPC codes of equivalent codelength, the channel threshold with 10-5FER is improved from 0.016 to 0.025.

Key words: quantum information, LDPC code, quantum LDPC code, BP algorithm