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International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation

Quantum fourier transform over symmetric groups

Yasuhito Kawano, Hiroshi Sekigawa

Published Jun 25, 2013• 4 citations
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Abstract

This paper proposes an O(n4) quantum Fourier transform (QFT) algorithm over symmetric group Sn, the fastest QFT algorithm of its kind. We propose a fast Fourier transform algorithm over symmetric group Sn, which consists of O(n3) multiplications of unitary matrices, and then transform it into a quantum circuit form. The QFT algorithm can be applied to constructing the standard algorithm of the hidden subgroup problem.

DOI
10.1145/2465506.2465940

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Abstract We propose an implementation of the algorithm for the fast Fourier transform (FFT) as a quantum circuit consisting of a combination of some quantum gates. In our implementation, a data sequence is expressed by a tensor product of vector spaces. Namely, our FFT is defined as a transformation of the tensor product of quantum states. It is essentially different from the so-called quantum Fourier transform (QFT) defined to be a linear transformation of the amplitudes for the superposition of quantum states. The quantum circuit for the FFT consists of several circuits for elementary arithmetic operations such as a quantum adder, subtractor and shift operations, which are implemented as effectively as possible. Namely, our circuit does not generate any garbage bits. The advantages of our method compared to the QFT are its high versatility, and data storage efficiency in terms, for instance, of the quantum image processing.