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New Binary Quantum Codes Constructed from Quasi-Cyclic Codes

Chaofeng Guan, Ruihu Li, Liangdong Lu, Yu Yao

Year
2021
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:2112.07137
arXiv
2112.07137

It is well known that quantum codes can be constructed by means of classical symplectic dual-containing codes. This paper considers a family of two-generator quasi-cyclic codes and derives sufficient conditions for these codes to be symplectic dual-containing. Then, a new method for constructing binary quantum codes using symplectic dual-containing codes is proposed. As an application, we construct 8 binary quantum codes that exceed the best-known results. Further, another 36 new binary quantum codes are obtained by propagation rules, all of which improve the lower bound on the minimum distances.

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ADaPT: Adaptive-window Decoding for Practical fault-Tolerance

Tina Oberoi, Joshua Viszlai, Frederic T. Chong

Year
2026
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:2605.01149
arXiv
2605.01149

Window decoding, first proposed to reduce decoding complexity for real-time decoding, is an essential component to realize scalable, universal-fault tolerant computation. Prior work has focused on improving throughput through parallelization and reducing reaction time via speculation on window boundaries. However, these methods use a fixed window size d, paying a fixed decoding time overhead for each window. In practice, we find this overhead of a fixed window size unnecessary in many cases due to the sparsity of average-case errors in QEC. Leveraging this insight, in this paper we propose an adaptive window decoding technique based on decoder confidence. This technique reduces the overhead in decoding time thus reducing reaction time without compromising on logical error rates. We benchmark adaptive window decoding across different codes and hardware inspired noise models. Our results show that this adaptive technique reaches the target error rate while maintaining a low decoding time overhead across different codes, and under different noise models.

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