{ "id": "0905.0428", "version": "v1", "published": "2009-05-04T17:16:23.000Z", "updated": "2009-05-04T17:16:23.000Z", "title": "Generalized Concatenation for Quantum Codes", "authors": [ "Markus Grassl", "Peter W. Shor", "Bei Zeng" ], "comment": "5 pages, to be presented at ISIT 2009", "journal": "Proceedings 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2009), Seoul, Korea, June/July 2009, pp. 953-957", "doi": "10.1109/ISIT.2009.5205592", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "We show how good quantum error-correcting codes can be constructed using generalized concatenation. The inner codes are quantum codes, the outer codes can be linear or nonlinear classical codes. Many new good codes are found, including both stabilizer codes as well as so-called nonadditive codes.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2009-05-04T17:16:23.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "quantum codes", "generalized concatenation", "quantum error-correcting codes", "stabilizer codes" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2009arXiv0905.0428G" } } }