Reed-muller codes achieve capacity on the quantum erasure channel
Conference Paper
The quantum erasure channel is the simplest example of a quantum communication channel and its information capacity is known precisely. The subclass of quantum error-correcting codes called stabilizer codes is known to contain capacity-achieving sequences for the quantum erasure channel, but no efficient method is known to construct these sequences. In this article, we explicitly describe a capacity-achieving code sequence for the quantum erasure channel. In particular, we show that Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) stabilizer codes constructed from self-orthogonal binary linear codes are capacity-achieving on the quantum erasure channel if the binary linear codes are capacity-achieving on the binary erasure channel. Recently, Reed-Muller codes were shown to achieve capacity on classical erasure channels. Using this, we show that CSS codes constructed from binary Reed-Muller codes achieve the capacity of the quantum erasure channel. The capacity-achieving nature of these CSS codes is also explained from a GF(4) perspective.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Kumar, S; Calderbank, R; Pfister, HD
Published Date
- August 10, 2016
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 2016-August /
Start / End Page
- 1750 - 1754
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 2157-8095
International Standard Book Number 13 (ISBN-13)
- 9781509018062
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1109/ISIT.2016.7541599
Citation Source
- Scopus