Abstract
Balanced incomplete block design (BIBD) offers an important way to construct non-homogeneous quantum low-density-parity-check (LDPC) codes of Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) type. However, the rates of the quantum codes based on this method are limited to be 1-2/m approximately, where m, the number of base blocks chosen from the associated BIBD, is even. We overcome this limitation by providing a rate scalable way to construct non-homogeneous quantum LDPC codes of CSS type. With our method, the rates of the resultant quantum codes are 1-2/m', where m'=m/e and e ∈ {1, 2}. Note that here m' can be odd. Thus, we double the rate range of the codes yielded from the existing strategies. Moreover, one can switch codes between the two rates flexibly adapting to various application scenarios.
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