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Title: Entanglement-assisted quantum convolutional coding

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Communication Sciences Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 (United States)

We show how to protect a stream of quantum information from decoherence induced by a noisy quantum communication channel. We exploit preshared entanglement and a convolutional coding structure to develop a theory of entanglement-assisted quantum convolutional coding. Our construction produces a Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) entanglement-assisted quantum convolutional code from two arbitrary classical binary convolutional codes. The rate and error-correcting properties of the classical convolutional codes directly determine the corresponding properties of the resulting entanglement-assisted quantum convolutional code. We explain how to encode our CSS entanglement-assisted quantum convolutional codes starting from a stream of information qubits, ancilla qubits, and shared entangled bits.

OSTI ID:
21408590
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 81, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.042333; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English