Quantum Deletion Codes Derived From Quantum Reed-Solomon Codes

This manuscript presents a construction method for quantum codes capable of correcting multiple deletion errors. By introducing two new alogorithms, the alternating sandwich mapping and the block error locator, the proposed method reduces deletion error correction to erasure error correction. Unlike previous quantum deletion error-correcting codes, our approach enables flexible code rates and eliminates the requirement of knowing the number of deletions

Quantum Error Correction beyond the Bounded Distance Decoding Limit

In this paper, we consider quantum error correction over depolarizing channels with non-binary low-density parity-check codes defined over Galois field of size $2^p$ . The proposed quantum error correcting codes are based on the binary quasi-cyclic CSS (Calderbank, Shor and Steane) codes. The resulting quantum codes outperform the best known quantum codes and surpass the performance limit of the bounded distance decoder. By increasing the size of the underlying Galois field, i.e., $2^p$, the error floors are considerably improved.Comment: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theor