Journal of Xidian University ›› 2024, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (1): 11-20.doi: 10.19665/j.issn1001-2400.20230301

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Double windows sliding decoding of spatially-coupled quantum LDPC codes

WANG Yunjiang1,2(), ZHU Gaohui1(), YANG Yuting1(), MA Zhong3(), WEI Lu3()   

  1. 1. School of Telecommunications Engineering,Xidian University,Xi’an 710071,China
    2. Guangzhou Institute of Technology,Xidian University,Guangzhou 510555,China
    3. Xi’an Microelectronics Technology Institute,Xi’an 710065,China
  • Received:2022-09-19 Online:2024-01-20 Published:2023-08-31
  • Contact: MA Zhong E-mail:yunjiangw@xidian.edu.cn;ghzhu_1@stu.xidian.edu.cn;20011210442@stu.xidian.edu.cn;mazhong@mail.com;sshi@xidian.edu.cn

Abstract:

Quantum error-correcting codes are the key way to address the issue caused by the inevitable noise along with the quantum computing process.Spatially coupled quantum LDPC codes,as their classical counterparts,can achieve a good balance between the error-correcting capacity and the decoding delay in principle.By considering the problems of high complexity and long decoding delay caused by the standard belief propagation algorithm(BPA) for decoding the spatially coupled quantum LDPC codes(SC-QLDPCs),a quantum version of the sliding decoding scheme,named the double window sliding decoding algorithm is proposed in this paper.The proposed algorithm is inspired by the idea of classical sliding window decoding strategies and by exploiting the non-zero diagonal bands on the principal and sub-diagonals structure of the corresponding two parity-check matrices(PCMs) of the concerned SC-QLDPC.The phase and bit flipping error syndromes of the received codeword are obtained by sliding the two windows along the principal and sub-diagonals of the two classical PCMs simultaneously,which enables a good trade-off between complexity and decoding delay to be obtained by using the proposed strategy,with numerical results given to verify the performance of the proposed double window sliding decoding scheme.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can not only offer a low latency decoding output but also provide a decoding performance approaching that of the standard BPA when enlarging the window size,thus improving the application scenarios of the SC-QLDPC significantly.

Key words: LDPC codes, spatially-coupled, quantum codes, double windows sliding, BP decoding

CLC Number: 

  • TN911.22