Nonbinary quantum error-correcting codes from algebraic curves (Q925007)

The authors give a new exposition and proof of a nonbinary version of the generalized binary CSS construction. Using this construction and algebraic curves they obtain various parameters (lengths, dimensions, and minimum distances) for nonbinary quantum codes. Furthermore, they apply this construction to the tower of function fields to obtain asymptotically good nonbinary quantum codes which are constructible in polynomial time (the question of asymptotically good nonbinary quantum codes has not been considered until now).