Quantum turbo codes with unbounded minimum distance and excellent error-reducing performance.

Mamdouh Abbara (1) , Jean-Pierre Tillich (1)

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We construct here a new family of quantum codes related to serial turbo-codes which are excellent error-reducing codes under iterative decoding for very large channel noise values. Moreover we also show that this family of codes has unbounded minimum distance.

Domaines: Théorie de l'information [cs.IT]

Mamdouh Abbara, Jean-Pierre Tillich. Quantum turbo codes with unbounded minimum distance and excellent error-reducing performance.. ITW 2011- IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Oct 2011, Paraty, Brazil. pp.252-256, ⟨10.1109/ITW.2011.6089430⟩. ⟨hal-01108594⟩