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Kerdock Codes Determine Unitary 2-Designs
The non-linear binary Kerdock codes are known to be Gray images of certain
extended cyclic codes of length over . We show that
exponentiating these -valued codewords by produces stabilizer states, that are quantum states obtained using
only Clifford unitaries. These states are also the common eigenvectors of
commuting Hermitian matrices forming maximal commutative subgroups (MCS) of the
Pauli group. We use this quantum description to simplify the derivation of the
classical weight distribution of Kerdock codes. Next, we organize the
stabilizer states to form mutually unbiased bases and prove that
automorphisms of the Kerdock code permute their corresponding MCS, thereby
forming a subgroup of the Clifford group. When represented as symplectic
matrices, this subgroup is isomorphic to the projective special linear group
PSL(). We show that this automorphism group acts transitively on the Pauli
matrices, which implies that the ensemble is Pauli mixing and hence forms a
unitary -design. The Kerdock design described here was originally discovered
by Cleve et al. (arXiv:1501.04592), but the connection to classical codes is
new which simplifies its description and translation to circuits significantly.
Sampling from the design is straightforward, the translation to circuits uses
only Clifford gates, and the process does not require ancillary qubits.
Finally, we also develop algorithms for optimizing the synthesis of unitary
-designs on encoded qubits, i.e., to construct logical unitary -designs.
Software implementations are available at
https://github.com/nrenga/symplectic-arxiv18a, which we use to provide
empirical gate complexities for up to qubits.Comment: 16 pages double-column, 4 figures, and some circuits. Accepted to
2019 Intl. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), and PDF of the 5-page ISIT version is
included in the arXiv packag
Coding Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics
This chapter introduces and elaborates on the fruitful interplay of coding
theory and algebraic combinatorics, with most of the focus on the interaction
of codes with combinatorial designs, finite geometries, simple groups, sphere
packings, kissing numbers, lattices, and association schemes. In particular,
special interest is devoted to the relationship between codes and combinatorial
designs. We describe and recapitulate important results in the development of
the state of the art. In addition, we give illustrative examples and
constructions, and highlight recent advances. Finally, we provide a collection
of significant open problems and challenges concerning future research.Comment: 33 pages; handbook chapter, to appear in: "Selected Topics in
Information and Coding Theory", ed. by I. Woungang et al., World Scientific,
Singapore, 201
Kerdock Codes Determine Unitary 2-Designs
The binary non-linear Kerdock codes are Gray images of β€_4-linear Kerdock codes of length N =2^m . We show that exponentiating Δ±=ββ-1 by these β€_4-valued codewords produces stabilizer states, which are the common eigenvectors of maximal commutative subgroups (MCS) of the Pauli group. We use this quantum description to simplify the proof of the classical weight distribution of Kerdock codes. Next, we partition stabilizer states into N +1 mutually unbiased bases and prove that automorphisms of the Kerdock code permute the associated MCS. This automorphism group, represented as symplectic matrices, is isomorphic to the projective special linear group PSL(2,N) and forms a unitary 2-design. The design described here was originally discovered by Cleve et al. (2016), but the connection to classical codes is new. This significantly simplifies the description of the design and its translation to circuits
3-Designs from all Z4-Goethals-like codes with block size 7 and 8
AbstractWe construct a family of simple 3-(2m,8,14(2mβ8)/3) designs, with odd mβ©Ύ5, from all Z4-Goethals-like codes Gk. In addition, these designs imply the existence of other design families with the same parameters as the designs constructed from the Z4-Goethals code G1, i.e. the designs with a block size 7 by Shin, Kumar, and Helleseth and the designs with a block size 8 by Ranto. In the existence proofs we count the number of solutions to certain systems of equations over finite fields and use properties of Dickson and linearized polynomials. Also, the nonequivalence of the designs from different Goethals-like codes is considered
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