An Alternative Formulation of the Quantum Phase Estimation Using Projection-Based Tensor Decompositions

Abstract

In this paper an alternative version of the quantum phase estimation is proposed, in which the Hadamard gates at the beginning are substituted by a quantum Fourier transform. This new circuit coincides with the original one, when the ancilla is initialized with $\ket{0}$. With the help of a projection-based tensor decomposition and closed-form expressions of its exponential, this new method can be interpreted as a multiplier coupled to the Hamiltonian of the corresponding target unitary operator. Based on this observation a recursive decomposition is derived.