Combinatorial Analysis of Dyadic and Quasi-Dyadic Codes

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Main Authors: Gómez-Fonseca, Anthony, Matthews, Gretchen L., Morris, Kirsten D., Pllaha, Tefjol
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author Gómez-Fonseca, Anthony
Matthews, Gretchen L.
Morris, Kirsten D.
Pllaha, Tefjol
author_facet Gómez-Fonseca, Anthony
Matthews, Gretchen L.
Morris, Kirsten D.
Pllaha, Tefjol
contents Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes offer a promising route to scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation, but their performance under iterative decoding is strongly influenced by short-cycle structure and other harmful subgraphs in the associated Tanner graphs. This paper develops an algebraic framework for constructing and analyzing (Q)LDPC codes from dyadic and quasi-dyadic matrices-translation-invariant $2^\ell \times 2^\ell$ binary matrices specified compactly by a signature row and forming a commutative ring with recursive block structure. Leveraging this structure, we relate cycles in lifted Tanner graphs to tailless backtrackless closed walks in the protograph and derive efficient, implementable methods to enumerate and control short cycles (notably $4$-, $6$-, and $8$-cycles). We introduce dyadic-aware PEG-style construction algorithms that use forbidden sets of shifts to maximize attainable girth when possible and otherwise minimize the multiplicity of the shortest cycles at the target girth. Motivated by error-floor phenomena, we further characterize and explicitly enumerate absorbing sets in key dyadic layout boundary cases, identifying configurations that induce abundant $(a,0)$-absorbing sets. Finally, we propose CSS-oriented dyadic constructions that satisfy commutation constraints by design and demonstrate via belief-propagation simulations that reducing short-cycle multiplicity can yield substantial decoding gains even when girth cannot be increased.
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spellingShingle Combinatorial Analysis of Dyadic and Quasi-Dyadic Codes
Gómez-Fonseca, Anthony
Matthews, Gretchen L.
Morris, Kirsten D.
Pllaha, Tefjol
Information Theory
Quantum Physics
Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes offer a promising route to scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation, but their performance under iterative decoding is strongly influenced by short-cycle structure and other harmful subgraphs in the associated Tanner graphs. This paper develops an algebraic framework for constructing and analyzing (Q)LDPC codes from dyadic and quasi-dyadic matrices-translation-invariant $2^\ell \times 2^\ell$ binary matrices specified compactly by a signature row and forming a commutative ring with recursive block structure. Leveraging this structure, we relate cycles in lifted Tanner graphs to tailless backtrackless closed walks in the protograph and derive efficient, implementable methods to enumerate and control short cycles (notably $4$-, $6$-, and $8$-cycles). We introduce dyadic-aware PEG-style construction algorithms that use forbidden sets of shifts to maximize attainable girth when possible and otherwise minimize the multiplicity of the shortest cycles at the target girth. Motivated by error-floor phenomena, we further characterize and explicitly enumerate absorbing sets in key dyadic layout boundary cases, identifying configurations that induce abundant $(a,0)$-absorbing sets. Finally, we propose CSS-oriented dyadic constructions that satisfy commutation constraints by design and demonstrate via belief-propagation simulations that reducing short-cycle multiplicity can yield substantial decoding gains even when girth cannot be increased.
title Combinatorial Analysis of Dyadic and Quasi-Dyadic Codes
topic Information Theory
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01942