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most citedShort Codes for Quantum Channels with One Prevalent Pauli Error Type

21 citations · 54 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.IT2026

Practical Low-Weight Codes for Energy-Efficient Bus Encoding

Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

We consider the transmission of data encoded into binary messages, with the goal of minimizing the Hamming distance, i.e., the number of bit-flips, between consecutive messages. Th…

quant-ph2026

Performance Limits of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Error Correction Schemes

Lorenzo Valentini, Diego Forlivesi, Marco Chiani

Quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for realizing scalable quantum computation. However, when evaluating its benefits, most analyses assume idealized components, overlookin…

quant-ph2026

Fault-Tolerant Cut-Cat State Syndrome Extraction for Quantum Codes

Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

Reliable quantum computation requires fault-tolerant protocols to prevent errors from propagating during syndrome extraction in quantum error correction. We present a novel fault-t…

quant-ph2026

Dimensioning of Quantum Memories for Distilled Quantum EPR Packets

Lorenzo Valentini, Diego Forlivesi, Andrea Talarico +1

The quantum Internet envisions a network where information is transmitted through entanglement, with Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) pairs serving as one of the fundamental carriers.…

quant-ph2025

Restart Belief: A General Quantum LDPC Decoder

Lorenzo Valentini, Diego Forlivesi, Andrea Talarico +1

Hardware-friendly quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) decoders are commonly built upon belief propagation (BP) processing. Yet, quantum degeneracy often prevents BP from achie…

quant-ph2025

Bubble Clustering Decoder for Quantum Topological Codes

Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

Quantum computers are highly vulnerable to noise, necessitating the use of error-correcting codes to protect stored data. Errors must be continuously corrected over time to counter…

quant-ph2025

Cylindrical and Möbius Quantum Codes for Asymmetric Pauli Errors

Lorenzo Valentini, Diego Forlivesi, Marco Chiani

In the implementation of quantum information systems, one type of Pauli error, such as phase-flip errors, may occur more frequently than others, like bit-flip errors. For this reas…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Quantum codes for asymmetric channels: ZZZY surface codes

Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

We introduce surface ZZZY codes, a novel family of quantum error-correcting codes designed for asymmetric channels. Derived from standard surface codes through tailored modificatio…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Spanning Tree Matching Decoder for Quantum Surface Codes

Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

We introduce the spanning tree matching (STM) decoder for surface codes, which guarantees the error correction capability up to the code's designed distance by first employing an i…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Logical Error Rates of XZZX and Rotated Quantum Surface Codes

Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

Surface codes are versatile quantum error-correcting codes known for their planar geometry, making them ideal for practical implementations. While the original proposal used Pauli…

cs.IT2023★ 6 cited

Exploiting Pilot Mixtures in Coded Random Access

Lorenzo Valentini, Elena Bernardi, Enrico Paolini

The construction of preamble sequences for channel estimation by superposition of orthogonal pilots can improve performance of massive grant-free uplink from machine-type devices.…

cs.IT2023

Heterogeneous radio access with multiple latency targets

Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Jose Manuel Gimenez-Guzman, Lorenzo Valentini +1

Since the advent of ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC), the requirements of low-latency applications tend to be completely characterized by a single pre-defined…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Quantum Two-Way Protocol Beyond Superdense Coding: Joint Transfer of Data and Entanglement

Lorenzo Valentini, Kristian Skafte Jensen, René Bødker Christensen +2

In this article, we introduce a generalization of one-way superdense coding to two-way communication protocols for transmitting classical bits by using entangled quantum pairs. The…

eess.SP2023

Interference Cancellation Algorithms for Grant-Free Multiple Access with Massive MIMO

Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani, Enrico Paolini

In next generation Internet-of-Things, the overhead introduced by grant-based multiple access protocols may engulf the access network as a consequence of the unprecedented number o…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Performance Analysis of Quantum CSS Error-Correcting Codes via MacWilliams Identities

Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

We analyze the performance of quantum stabilizer codes, one of the most important classes for practical implementations, on both symmetric and asymmetric quantum channels. To this…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Reliable Quantum Communications based on Asymmetry in Distillation and Coding

Lorenzo Valentini, René Bødker Christensen, Petar Popovski +1

The reliable provision of entangled qubits is an essential precondition in a variety of schemes for distributed quantum computing. This is challenged by multiple nuisances, such as…

cs.IT2023

An Implementation of the Optimal Scheme for Energy Efficient Bus Encoding

Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

In computer system buses, most of the energy is spent to change the voltage of each line from high to low or vice versa. Bus encoding schemes aim to improve energy efficiency by li…

quant-ph2023

Performance Analysis of Quantum Error-Correcting Surface Codes over Asymmetric Channels

Lorenzo Valentini, Diego Forlivesi, Marco Chiani

One of the main challenge for an efficient implementation of quantum information technologies is how to counteract quantum noise. Quantum error correcting codes are therefore of pr…

cs.IT2022

A Joint PHY and MAC Layer Design for Coded Random Access with Massive MIMO

Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani, Enrico Paolini

Grant-free access schemes are candidates to support future massive multiple access applications owing to their capability to reduce control signaling and latency. As a promising cl…

cs.IT2022

Irregular Repetition Slotted ALOHA in an Information-Theoretic Setting

Enrico Paolini, Lorenzo Valentini, Velio Tralli +1

An information-theoretic approach to irregular repetition slotted ALOHA (IRSA) is proposed. In contrast with previous works, in which IRSA analysis is conducted only based on quant…

eess.SP2022★ 1 cited

Two-Leg Deep Space Relay Architectures: Performance, Challenges, and Perspectives

Dario Modenini, Alfredo Locarini, Lorenzo Valentini +6

In this paper, architectures for interplanetary communications that feature the use of a data relay are investigated. In the considered "two-leg" architecture, a spacecraft orbitin…

cs.IT2022

Impact of Interference Subtraction on Grant-Free Multiple Access with Massive MIMO

Lorenzo Valentini, Alberto Faedi, Marco Chiani +1

The design of highly scalable multiple access schemes is a main challenge in the evolution towards future massive machine-type communications, where reliability and latency constra…

eess.SP2021

Analysis of Pointing Loss Effects in Deep Space Optical Links

Lorenzo Valentini, Alberto Faedi, Enrico Paolini +1

Owing to the extremely narrow beams, a main issue in optical deep space communications is represented by miss-pointing errors, which may severely degrade the system performance and…

quant-ph2021★ 21 cited

Short Codes for Quantum Channels with One Prevalent Pauli Error Type

Marco Chiani, Lorenzo Valentini

One of the main problems in quantum information systems is the presence of errors due to noise, and for this reason quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) play a key role. While mo…