Remarks on Clifford Codes

  • Andreas Klappenecker ,
  • Martin Roetteler

Proceedings 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2004), Chicago, USA |

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Clifford codes are a class of quantum error control codes that form a natural generalization of stabilizer codes. These codes were introduced in 1996 by Knill, but only a single Clifford code was known, which is not already a stabilizer code. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition that allows to decide when a Clifford code is a stabilizer code, and compile a table of all true Clifford codes for error groups of small order.