Quaternion quantum neurocomputing

Abstract

Since the introduction of quaternion by Hamilton in 1843, quaternions have been used in a lot of applications. One of the most interesting qualities is that we can use quaternions to carry out rotations and operate on other quaternions; this characteristic of the quaternions inspired us to investigate how the quantum states and quantum operator work in the field of quaternions and how we can use it to construct a quantum neural network. This new type of quantum neural network (QNN) is developed in the quaternion algebra framework that is isomorphic to the rotor algebra [Formula: see text] of the geometric algebra and is based on the so-called qubit neuron model. The quaternion quantum neural network (QQNN) is tested and shows robust performance.