International Journal of Quantum Information
TERNARY QUANTUM CODES OF MINIMUM DISTANCE THREE
Jian Liu
Abstract
Based on finite field and combinatorics theory, an elementary recursive construction is used to construct Hermitian self-orthogonal codes over 𝔽9, the Galois field with nine elements, with dual distance three for all n ≥ 4. Consequently, good ternary linear quantum codes of minimum distance three for such length n are obtained. These ternary linear quantum codes are optimal or near optimal according to the quantum Singleton bound and quantum Hamming bound.