New quantum codes from skew constacyclic codes

Abstract

For an odd prime $ p $ and positive integers $ m $ and $ \ell $, let $ \mathbb{F}_{p^m} $ be the finite field with $ p^{m} $ elements and $ R_{\ell,m} = \mathbb{F}_{p^m}[v_1,v_2,\dots,v_{\ell}]/\langle v^{2}_{i}-1, v_{i}v_{j}-v_{j}v_{i}\rangle_{1\leq i, j\leq \ell} $. Thus $ R_{\ell,m} $ is a finite commutative non-chain ring of order $ p^{2^{\ell} m} $ with characteristic $ p $. In this paper, we aim to construct quantum codes from skew constacyclic codes over $ R_{\ell,m} $. First, we discuss the structures of skew constacyclic codes and determine their Euclidean dual codes. Then a relation between these codes and their Euclidean duals has been obtained. Finally, with the help of a duality-preserving Gray map and the CSS construction, many MDS and better non-binary quantum codes are obtained as compared to the best-known quantum codes available in the literature.