PI qubit code 

Dicke states: For \(n\)-qubit block codes, an often used basis for the \(n+1\)-dimensional PI subspace consists of the Dicke states \(|D^n_w\rangle\) -- normalized PI states of \(w\) excitations, i.e., a normalized sum over all binary-string basis elements with \(w\) ones and \(n - w\) zeroes. For example, the single-excitation Dicke state on three qubits is \begin{align} |D_{1}^{3}\rangle=\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\left(|001\rangle+|010\rangle+|100\rangle\right)~. \tag*{(1)}\end{align} The \(n+1\)-dimensional PI space can be thought of as a standalone spin-\(n/2\) quantum system, yielding a way to convert between permutation-invatiant qubit codes and \(SU(2)\) spin codes. A single-spin code for the \(SU(2)\) group correcting spherical tensors can be mapped into a PI qubit code with an analogous distance [1][2; Thm. 1].