Modern Physics Letters B
Quantum convolutional codes derived from constacyclic codes
Tingsu Yan, Xinmei Huang, Yuansheng Tang
Abstract
In this paper, three families of quantum convolutional codes are constructed. The first one and the second one can be regarded as a generalization of Theorems 3, 4, 7 and 8 [J. Chen, J. Li, F. Yang and Y. Huang, Int. J. Theor. Phys., doi:10.1007/s10773-014-2214-6 (2014)], in the sense that we drop the constraint q ≡ 1 ( mod 4). Furthermore, the second one and the third one attain the quantum generalized Singleton bound.