Quantum codes and irreducible products of characters
摘要
In a recent paper, we defined a type of weighted unitary design called a twisted unitary 1-group and showed that such a design automatically induced error-detecting quantum codes. We also showed that twisted unitary 1-groups correspond to irreducible products of characters thereby reducing the problem of code-finding to a computation in the character theory of finite groups. Using a combination of GAP computations and results from the mathematics literature on irreducible products of characters, we identify many new non-trivial quantum codes with unusual transversal gates. Transversal gates are of significant interest to the quantum information community for their central role in fault tolerant quantum computing. Most unitary