Construction of Self-Orthogonal Quasi-Cyclic Codes and Their Application to Quantum Error-Correcting Codes

In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions for the self-orthogonality of t-generator quasi-cyclic (QC) codes are presented under the Euclidean, Hermitian, and symplectic inner products, respectively. Particularly, by studying the structure of the dual codes of a class of 2-generator QC codes, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the QC codes to be dual-containing under the above three inner products. This class of 2-generator QC codes generalizes many known codes in the literature. Based on the above conditions, we construct several quantum stabilizer codes and quantum synchronizable codes with good parameters, some of which share parameters with certain best-known codes listed in Grassl's code table.