Efficient Quantum Fourier Transforms For Semisimple Algebras

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Main Authors: Foxman, Ben, Nehoran, Barak, Ding, Yongshan
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author Foxman, Ben
Nehoran, Barak
Ding, Yongshan
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Nehoran, Barak
Ding, Yongshan
contents The quantum Fourier transform (QFT) is a fundamental primitive in quantum computation and quantum information. In this work, we generalize the QFT for finite groups to a QFT for finite-dimensional semisimple algebras, and give efficient quantum Fourier transforms for the partition algebra $P_n(d)$, Brauer algebra $B_n(d)$, and walled Brauer algebra $B_{r,s}(d)$. These algebras play important roles in generalized Schur-Weyl duality, statistical physics and many-body systems, and have recently found several applications in quantum algorithms. Unlike the group case, the Fourier transform over a semisimple algebra can be non-unitary. Nevertheless, we show that when the parameter $d$ is sufficiently large, the Fourier transform is well approximated by a unitary operator. Furthermore, we show that for each of the algebras $A$ from above, such an approximate Fourier transform can be implemented efficiently: we give a quantum algorithm with gate complexity $\mathrm{poly}(n,\log d,\log(1/\varepsilon))$ for approximating the Fourier transform to error $(d^{-1/2} + \varepsilon) \cdot \mathrm{poly}(|A|)$. Along the way, we establish several properties of the Fourier basis of semisimple algebras that may be of independent interest.
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Foxman, Ben
Nehoran, Barak
Ding, Yongshan
Quantum Physics
The quantum Fourier transform (QFT) is a fundamental primitive in quantum computation and quantum information. In this work, we generalize the QFT for finite groups to a QFT for finite-dimensional semisimple algebras, and give efficient quantum Fourier transforms for the partition algebra $P_n(d)$, Brauer algebra $B_n(d)$, and walled Brauer algebra $B_{r,s}(d)$. These algebras play important roles in generalized Schur-Weyl duality, statistical physics and many-body systems, and have recently found several applications in quantum algorithms. Unlike the group case, the Fourier transform over a semisimple algebra can be non-unitary. Nevertheless, we show that when the parameter $d$ is sufficiently large, the Fourier transform is well approximated by a unitary operator. Furthermore, we show that for each of the algebras $A$ from above, such an approximate Fourier transform can be implemented efficiently: we give a quantum algorithm with gate complexity $\mathrm{poly}(n,\log d,\log(1/\varepsilon))$ for approximating the Fourier transform to error $(d^{-1/2} + \varepsilon) \cdot \mathrm{poly}(|A|)$. Along the way, we establish several properties of the Fourier basis of semisimple algebras that may be of independent interest.
title Efficient Quantum Fourier Transforms For Semisimple Algebras
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05337