Nonbinary quantum codes from hermitian curves

  • Authors:
  • Pradeep Kiran Sarvepalli;Andreas Klappenecker

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX;Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

  • Venue:
  • AAECC'06 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The extreme sensitivity of quantum information to ambient noise has prompted the study of quantum error-correcting codes.In this paper two families of quantum error-correcting codes are constructed based on Hermitian curves. Unlike the case of classical codes, it is a difficult, sometimes impossible, task to puncture a quantum stabilizer code. The puncture code of Hermitian codes is computed that allows one to determine the admissible puncturings. A large number of punctured Hermitian codes are derived by exploiting known facts about the weight distribution of these puncture codes.