Growing Sparse Quantum Codes from a Seed

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13496v1
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:05:52 GMT
• Title: Growing Sparse Quantum Codes from a Seed
• Authors: ChunJun Cao, Brad Lackey,
• Abstract summary: We show that by conjoining only quantum repetition codes, one can construct quantum LDPC codes.<n>We also show that the conjoining of even just two-qubit quantum bit-flip and phase-flip repetition codes is quite powerful as they can create any CSS code.
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• Abstract: It is generally unclear whether smaller codes can be "concatenated" to systematically create quantum LDPC codes or their sparse subsystem code cousins where the degree of the Tanner graph remains bounded while increasing the code distance. In this work, we use a slight generalization of concatenation called conjoining introduced by the quantum lego formalism. We show that by conjoining only quantum repetition codes, one can construct quantum LDPC codes. More generally, we provide an efficient iterative algorithm for constructing sparse subsystem codes with a distance guarantee that asymptotically saturates $kd^2=O(n)$ in the worst case. Furthermore, we show that the conjoining of even just two-qubit quantum bit-flip and phase-flip repetition codes is quite powerful as they can create any CSS code. Therefore, more creative combinations of these basic code blocks will be sufficient for generating good quantum codes, including good quantum LDPC codes.

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