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A Quantum Bluestein's Algorithm for Arbitrary-Size Quantum Fourier Transform

Quantum Physics 2025-12-24 v2

Abstract

We propose a quantum analogue of Bluestein's algorithm (QBA) that implements an exact NN-point Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) for arbitrary NN. Our construction factors the NN-dimensional QFT unitary into three diagonal quadratic-phase gates and two standard radix-2 QFT subcircuits of size M=2mM = 2^m (with M2N1M \ge 2N - 1). This achieves asymptotic gate complexity O((logN)2)O((\log N)^2) and uses O(logN)O(\log N) qubits, matching the performance of a power-of-two QFT on mm qubits while avoiding the need to embed into a larger Hilbert space. We validate the correctness of the algorithm through a concrete implementation in Qiskit and classical simulation, confirming that QBA produces the exact NN-point discrete Fourier transform on arbitrary-length inputs.

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@article{arxiv.2512.15349,
  title  = {A Quantum Bluestein's Algorithm for Arbitrary-Size Quantum Fourier Transform},
  author = {Nan-Hong Kuo and Renata Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.15349},
  year   = {2025}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures

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