• DocumentCode
    788452
  • Title

    Beyond stabilizer codes II: Clifford codes

  • Author

    Klappenecker, Andreas ; Rötteler, Martin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA
  • Volume
    48
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    8/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2396
  • Lastpage
    2399
  • Abstract
    For pt. I see ibid., vol.48, no.8, p.2392-95 (2002). Knill (1996) introduced a generalization of stabilizer codes, called Clifford codes. It remained unclear whether or not Clifford codes can be superior to stabilizer codes. We show that Clifford codes are stabilizer codes provided that the abstract error group has an Abelian index group. In particular, if the errors are modeled by tensor products of Pauli matrices, then the associated Clifford codes are necessarily stabilizer codes.
  • Keywords
    binary codes; error correction codes; group theory; matrix algebra; quantum computing; Abelian index group; Clifford codes; Pauli matrices; abstract error group; binary stabilizer codes; quantum error control codes; stabilizer codes; tensor products; Associate members; Computer errors; Computer science; Error correction; Error correction codes; Information theory; Protection; Quantum computing; Quantum mechanics; Tensile stress;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT/2002.800473
  • Filename
    1019850