Abstract：The storage capacity of the conventional Hopfield network is the 014 times of the number of neurons(P=014N). Because of the huge difficulty in recognizing a large number of images or patterns

researchers are looking for new methods at all times. Quantum neural network (QNN) is a young and outlying science built upon the combination of classical neural network and quantum computing. A Quantum Hopfield neural network (QHNN) whose elements of the storage matrix are distributed in a probability way on the base of quantum linear superposition is presented for speeding up the images recognition and increasing the number of the images recognition. Contrasting to the conventional Hopfield neural network

the storage capacity of the QHNN is increased by a factor of 2N

where N is the number of neurons. Besides

the case analysis and simulation tests have been carried out for the recognition of images in this paper. The result indicates that QHNN can recognize the images or patterns effectively and its working process accords with quantum evolvement process.