Title : 
Construction of topological quantum codes on compact surfaces
         
        
            Author : 
de Albuquerque, Clarice Dias ; Palazzo, Reginaldo ; Silva, Eduardo Brandani da
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. de Telematica, Univ. Estadual de Campinas, Sao Paulo
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper we construct a class of topological quantum error-correcting codes on compact surfaces with genus g ges 2. This generalizes the construction process of toric codes. As examples, we tabulate some good topological quantum codes on surfaces with genus 2 and 3.
         
        
            Keywords : 
error correction codes; compact surfaces; topological quantum codes; topological quantum error-correcting codes; toric code construction process; Constellation diagram; Degradation; Digital modulation; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Error correction codes; Hilbert space; Parity check codes; Quantum computing; Tensile stress; Topology;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Theory Workshop, 2008. ITW '08. IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Porto
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2269-2
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2271-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ITW.2008.4578693