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Khovanov homology and quantum error-correcting codes

Rostislav Akhmechet, Milena Harned, Pranav Venkata Konda, Felix Shanglin Liu, Nikhil Mudumbi, Eric Yuang Shao, Zheheng Xiao

Year
2024
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:2410.11252
arXiv
2410.11252

Error-correcting codes for quantum computing are crucial to address the fundamental problem of communication in the presence of noise and imperfections. Audoux used Khovanov homology to define families of quantum error-correcting codes with desirable properties. We explore Khovanov homology and some of its many extensions, namely reduced, annular, and $\mathfrak{sl}_3$ homology, to generate new families of quantum codes and to establish several properties about codes that arise in this way, such as behavior of distance under Reidemeister moves or connected sums.

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Entanglement-assisted Quantum Error Correcting Code Saturating The Classical Singleton Bound

Soham Ghosh, Evagoras Stylianou, Holger Boche

Year
2024
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:2410.04130
arXiv
2410.04130

We introduce a construction for entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes (EAQECCs) that saturates the classical Singleton bound with less shared entanglement than any known method for code rates below $ \frac{k}{n} = \frac{1}{3} $. For higher rates, our EAQECC also meets the Singleton bound, although with increased entanglement requirements. Additionally, we demonstrate that any classical $[n,k,d]_q$ code can be transformed into an EAQECC with parameters $[[n,k,d;2k]]_q$ using $2k$ pre-shared maximally entangled pairs. The complexity of our encoding protocol for $k$-qudits with $q$ levels is $\mathcal{O}(k \log_{\frac{q}{q-1}}(k))$, excluding the complexity of encoding and decoding the classical MDS code. While this complexity remains linear in $k$ for systems of reasonable size, it increases significantly for larger-levelled systems, highlighting the need for further research into complexity reduction.

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