The speedup of heavy numerical tasks by quantum computing is now actively investigated in various fields including data analysis in physics and astronomy. In this paper, we propose a quantum algorithm for matched filtering in gravitational wave (GW) data analysis based on the previous work by Gao et al. [Phys. Rev. Research 4, 023006 (2022)]. Our approach uses the quantum algorithm for Monte Carlo integration for the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) calculation instead of the fast Fourier transform used in Gao et al. and searches signal templates with high SNR by quantum amplitude amplification. In this way, we achieve an exponential reduction of the qubit number compared with Gao et al.'s algorithm, keeping a quadratic speedup over classical GW matched filtering with respect to the template number.

• Received 19 May 2022
• Accepted 10 August 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.033150

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