Girth Analysis of Quantum Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes

Quantum quasi-cyclic LDPC (QQC LDPC) codes, as CSS (Calderbank, Shor, and Steane) codes, are attracting attention because of their good structure and popular channel coding schemes. Fully connected quasi-cyclic LDPC (QC-LDPC) codes with different girths which result in QQC-LDPC codes are investigated. We analytically prove that QC-LDPC codes with column weight at least 3, which yield a QQC-LDPC code, have girth at most 6. To obtain a QQC-LDPC code from QC-LDPC codes with girth more than 6 we should focus on QC-LDPC codes with column weight 2. We present an efficient and practical method to construct these codes with girth at least 8. Then, we extend our method to construct codes with column weight 2 and girth 12, thus reaching the largest possible girth.