True Galois-qudit stabilizer code[1–3]

Description

A \([[n,k,d]]_q\) stabilizer code whose stabilizer's Galois symplectic representation forms a linear subspace. In other words, the set of \(q\)-ary vectors representing the stabilizer group is closed under both addition and multiplication by elements of \(GF(q)\). In contrast, Galois-qudit stabilizer codes admit sets of vectors that are closed under addition only.

The number of generators \(r\) for a true stabilizer code is a multiple of \(m\) (recall that \(q=p^m\) for Galois qudits). As a result, the number \(k=n-r/m\) of logical qudits is an integer.

Each code can be represented by a stabilizer generator matrix \(H=(A|B)\), where each row \((a|b)\) is the Galois symplectic representation of a stabilizer generator.