Avijit Mandal

Affiliation - Duke University

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Hello! I am Avijit. I am a 4th year PhD student at Duke University, USA. I work in the intersection of classical and quantum information and coding theory. At Duke, I am fortunate to work with Dr. Henry Pfister .

news

Aug 15, 2025 Spent wonderful summer with Quantum Algorithms team at Google Quantum AI, Los Angeles, CA as a Student Researcher for Summer 25.
Jun 24, 2025 Presented Reed-Muller codes achieve vanishing bit error rate on CQ channels at ISIT 2025 .
Apr 11, 2025 A proof of Reed-Muller codes achieve vanishing bit error rate on CQ channels accepted at ISIT 2025, extended version can be found here RMCQ.
Oct 10, 2024 New github repository on finding thresholds for regular LDPC codes over CQ channels using BPQM is up. Find it here .
Aug 09, 2024 Spent wonderful summer at Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ as a 6G-Radio Systems Intern.

selected publications

  1. Reed-Muller Codes on CQ Channels via a New Correlation Bound for Quantum Observables
    Avijit Mandal, and Henry D. Pfister
    2025
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  2. Polar Codes for CQ Channels: Decoding via Belief-Propagation with Quantum Messages
    Avijit Mandal, Sarah Brandsen, and Henry D Pfister
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.07167, 2024
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  3. Belief propagation with quantum messages for symmetric classical-quantum channels
    Sarah Brandsen, Avijit Mandal, and Henry D Pfister
    In 2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2022
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