Improved Quantum Codes from Metacirculant Graphs via Self-Dual Additive $\mathbb{F}_4$-Codes

Abstract

We use symplectic self-dual additive codes over $\mathbb{F}_4$ obtained from metacirculant graphs to construct, for the first time, $[[\ell, 0, d ]]$ qubit codes with parameters $(\ell,d) \in \{(78, 20), (90, 21), (91, 22), (93,21),(96,21)\}$. Secondary constructions applied to the qubit codes result in many qubit codes that perform better than the previous best-known.