Z_q(Z_q+uZ_q)-Linear Skew Constacyclic Codes

In this paper, we study skew constacyclic codes over the ring $\mathbb{Z}_{q}R$ where $R=\mathbb{Z}_{q}+u\mathbb{Z}_{q}$, $q=p^{s}$ for a prime $p$ and $u^{2}=0.$ We give the definition of these codes as subsets of the ring $\mathbb{Z}_{q}^{\alpha}R^{\beta}$. Some structural properties of the skew polynomial ring $R[x,\Theta]$ are discussed, where $\Theta$ is an automorphism of $R.$ We describe the generator polynomials of skew constacyclic codes over $\mathbb{Z}_{q}R,$ also we determine their minimal spanning sets and their sizes. Further, by using the Gray images of skew constacyclic codes over $\mathbb{Z}_{q}R$ we obtained some new linear codes over $\mathbb{Z}_{4}$. Finally, we have generalized these codes to double skew constacyclic codes over $\mathbb{Z}_{q}R$

On ZpZp[u, v]-additive cyclic and constacyclic codes

Let $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ be the ring of residue classes modulo a prime $p$. The $\mathbb{Z}_{p}\mathbb{Z}_{p}[u,v]$-additive cyclic codes of length $(\alpha,\beta)$ is identify as $\mathbb{Z}_{p}[u,v][x]$-submodule of $\mathbb{Z}_{p}[x]/\langle x^{\alpha}-1\rangle \times \mathbb{Z}_{p}[u,v][x]/\langle x^{\beta}-1\rangle$ where $\mathbb{Z}_{p}[u,v]=\mathbb{Z}_{p}+u\mathbb{Z}_{p}+v\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ with $u^{2}=v^{2}=uv=vu=0$. In this article, we obtain the complete sets of generator polynomials, minimal generating sets for cyclic codes with length $\beta$ over $\mathbb{Z}_{p}[u,v]$ and $\mathbb{Z}_{p}\mathbb{Z}_{p}[u,v]$-additive cyclic codes with length $(\alpha,\beta)$ respectively. We show that the Gray image of $\mathbb{Z}_{p}\mathbb{Z}_{p}[u,v]$-additive cyclic code with length $(\alpha,\beta)$ is either a QC code of length $4\alpha$ with index $4$ or a generalized QC code of length $(\alpha,3\beta)$ over $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$. Moreover, some structural properties like generating polynomials, minimal generating sets of $\mathbb{Z}_{p}\mathbb{Z}_{p}[u,v]$-additive constacyclic code with length $(\alpha,p-1)$ are determined.Comment: It is submitted to the journa

Application of Constacyclic codes to Quantum MDS Codes

Quantum maximal-distance-separable (MDS) codes form an important class of quantum codes. To get $q$-ary quantum MDS codes, it suffices to find linear MDS codes $C$ over $\mathbb{F}_{q^2}$ satisfying $C^{\perp_H}\subseteq C$ by the Hermitian construction and the quantum Singleton bound. If $C^{\perp_{H}}\subseteq C$, we say that $C$ is a dual-containing code. Many new quantum MDS codes with relatively large minimum distance have been produced by constructing dual-containing constacyclic MDS codes (see \cite{Guardia11}, \cite{Kai13}, \cite{Kai14}). These works motivate us to make a careful study on the existence condition for nontrivial dual-containing constacyclic codes. This would help us to avoid unnecessary attempts and provide effective ideas in order to construct dual-containing codes. Several classes of dual-containing MDS constacyclic codes are constructed and their parameters are computed. Consequently, new quantum MDS codes are derived from these parameters. The quantum MDS codes exhibited here have parameters better than the ones available in the literature.Comment: 16 page

Entanglement phases as holographic duals of anyon condensates

Anyon condensation forms a mechanism which allows to relate different topological phases. We study anyon condensation in the framework of Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) where topological order is characterized through local symmetries of the entanglement. We show that anyon condensation is in one-to-one correspondence to the behavior of the virtual entanglement state at the boundary (i.e., the entanglement spectrum) under those symmetries, which encompasses both symmetry breaking and symmetry protected (SPT) order, and we use this to characterize all anyon condensations for abelian double models through the structure of their entanglement spectrum. We illustrate our findings with the Z4 double model, which can give rise to both Toric Code and Doubled Semion order through condensation, distinguished by the SPT structure of their entanglement. Using the ability of our framework to directly measure order parameters for condensation and deconfinement, we numerically study the phase diagram of the model, including direct phase transitions between the Doubled Semion and the Toric Code phase which are not described by anyon condensation.Comment: 20+7 page