Quantum MDS and synchronizable codes from cyclic codes of length 5 p^s over F^pm

Abstract

For any odd prime p≠ 5 , the structures of cyclic codes of length 5 ps over Fpm are applied to construct quantum error-correcting codes (briefly, QEC codes). Some new QEC codes are provided in the sense that their parameters are different from all the previous constructions. We give all quantum maximum-distance-separable (briefly, qMDS codes) constructed by the CSS construction. We also construct quantum synchronizable codes (briefly, QSCs). To enrich the variety of available QSCs, many new QSCs are constructed to illustrate our results. Among them, there are QSCs codes with shorter lengths and much larger minimum distances than known primitive narrow-sense BCH codes.