Questions tagged [quantum-fourier-transform]
In quantum computing, the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) is a linear transformation on quantum bits and is the quantum analogue of the discrete Fourier transform. The quantum Fourier transform is a part of many quantum algorithms, notably Shor's algorithm for factoring and computing the discrete ...
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Why are these circuits not producing the same output?
I am simulating the phase shift algorithm on the Quirk platform. Even when the endian-ness of the built-in inverse QFT gate is corrected for, the circuits still output different results. Shouldn't the ...
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Implementation of inverse QFT?
When implementing the inverse quantum Fourier transform, in addition to reversing the circuit, does one need to take the conjugate transpose of the phase shift gates in the circuit as well?
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Why are these circuits not producing the expected output?
This circuit was created on the Quirk platform. I'm trying to implement a basic case of phase estimation. For some reason, I'm getting this strange result.
When the Inverse QFT is broken down, it ...
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How to describe, or encode, the input vector x of Quantum Fourier Transform?
Firstly, I'd like to specify my goal: to know why QFT runs exponentially faster than classical FFT.
I have read many tutorials about QFT (Quantum Fourier Transform), and this tutorial somehow explains ...
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Shor's algorithm weaknesses & uniqueness of close rational
I'm working through a problem set, and am stuck on the following problem:
a) What can go wrong in Shor’s algorithm if Q (the dimension of the Quantum Fourier Transform) is not taken to be ...
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Why does Fourier sampling allow to efficiently recover hidden subgroups?
The hidden subgroup problem is often cited as a generalisation of many problems for which efficient quantum algorithms are known, such as factoring/period finding, the discrete logarithm problem, and ...
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Do the probability amplitudes of the superposition state produced by the QFT transform convey useful information?
I have been studying on Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) by myself, and I am little bit confused about how could QFT be used.
For example, if the QFT of three quantum bits is
$a_1|000\rangle + ...
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Weak Fourier Sampling vs Strong Fourier Sampling?
I'm having trouble understanding the difference between weak fourier sampling and strong fourier sampling. From this paper:
...two important variants of the Fourier sampling paradigm have been
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Quantum Fourier Transform on two qubits: Non orthogonal outputs
We know the QFT gives us a new orthogonal basis from the original one, however, when I apply it on two qubits, I am not getting the output vectors orthogonal.
$|out(k)\rangle = \Sigma^{N-1}_{j=0} e^...
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Simplifying Quantum Tensor products with coefficients
$\newcommand{\ket}[1]{\lvert#1\rangle}$I am trying to show equality of two intermediate steps in the rearrangement of the Quantum Fourier transform definition, but I do not know how to rearrange the ...
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Quantum Algorithms for Convolution
I was looking into applications of Quantum Computing for machine learning and encountered the following pre-print from 2003. Quantum Convolution and Correlation Algorithms are Physically Impossible. ...
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Simplified explanation of Shor/QFT transformation as thumbtack
As a non-mathematician/software programmer I'm trying to grasp how QFT (Quantum Fourier Transformation) works.
Following this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwZZaI5u0c
And this ...
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Why does the “Phase Kickback” mechanism work in the Quantum phase estimation algorithm?
I've probably read the chapter The quantum Fourier transform and its applications from Nielsen and Chuang (10 th anniversary edition) a couple of times before and this took this thing for granted, but ...
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Example of Quantum Fourier Computation for three qubits
I am currently going through Nielsen's QC bible and having still some foundational / conceptual problems with the matter.
I have tried to retrieve this $8 {\times} 8$ matrix describing the QFT of 3 ...
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Why can the Discrete Fourier Transform be implemented efficiently as a quantum circuit?
It is a well known result that the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of $N=2^n$ numbers has complexity $\mathcal O(n2^n)$ with the best known algorithm, while performing the Fourier transform of the ...
