Fast Quantum Fourier Transforms for a Class of Non-Abelian Groups

  • Authors:
  • Markus Püschel;Martin Rötteler;Thomas Beth

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AAECC-13 Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

An algorithm is presented allowing the construction of fast Fourier transforms for any solvable group on a classical computer. The special structure of the recursion formula being the core of this algorithm makes it a good starting point to obtain systematically fast Fourier transforms for solvable groups on a quantum computer. The inherent structure of the Hilbert space imposed by the qubit architecture suggests to consider groups of order 2n first (where n is the number of qubits). As an example, fast quantum Fourier transforms for all 4 classes of nonabelian 2-groups with cyclic normal subgroup of index 2 are explicitly constructed in terms of quantum circuits. The (quantum) complexity of the Fourier transform for these groups of size 2n is O(n2) in all cases.