On the iterative decoding of sparse quantum codes

Quantum Information and Computation

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 0987-1000

  Poulin, David ^a,c   Chung, Yeojin ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Belief propagation; Iterative decoding; Low density parity check codes; Quantum error correction; Sparse codes

Indexed keywords

CODING ERRORS; ERROR CORRECTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

BELIEF PROPAGATION; BELIEF PROPAGATION ALGORITHM; BELIEF PROPAGATION DECODING; LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK (LDPC) CODES; QUANTUM CODING; QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION CODES; QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTIONS; SPARSE CODES;

ITERATIVE DECODING;

EID: 64149126419     PISSN: 15337146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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