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Quantum Fourier Transform and Its Applications

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When in 1822 Fourier published his most famous article (work), people originally used his transform in thermodynamics. Now, the most common use for the Fourier transform is in signal processing. A signal is given in the time domain: as a function mapping time to amplitude.

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Chang, WL., Vasilakos, A.V. (2021). Quantum Fourier Transform and Its Applications. In: Fundamentals of Quantum Programming in IBM's Quantum Computers. Studies in Big Data, vol 81. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63583-1_4

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