Some Families of Quantum BCH Codes

Classical Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes over finite fields have been studied extensively. The Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) construction, especially Steane’s enlargement, and Hermitian construction are the most widely used methods in design of quantum codes. The BCH codes containing their Euclidean dual or Hermitian dual codes can be used to generate good stabilizer codes. Therefore, we can construct quantum codes by classical BCH codes over finite fields in this paper. Firstly, we study the properties of such classical BCH codes in terms of the cyclotomic cosets. It is convenient to compute the dimension of new quantum BCH codes. Meanwhile, it ensures that classical BCH codes are Euclidean dual-containing or Hermitian dual-containing. These results about suitable cyclotomic cosets make it possible to construct several new families of nonbinary quantum BCH codes with a given parameter set. Compared with the ones available in the literature, the quantum BCH codes in our schemes have good parameters. In particular, we extend to more general cases than known results.