Sparse-graph codes for quantum error correction

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2315-2330

  MacKay, David J C ^a   Mitchison, Graeme ^b   McFadden, Paul L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECODING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

ERROR CORRECTION CODES; LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK CODES; PROBABILISTIC DECODING; QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 5144233236     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2004.834737     Document Type: Article

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