Shor’s algorithm is the problem factoring integers in polynomial time O(n^2 log n log log n) by reducing the factoring problem to a period finding problem. In this report, we’ll call the number we ...

Shor's algorithm is a quantum algorithm that efficiently finds the prime factors of large integers, which forms the basis for breaking RSA encryption. This ...

According to a paper, published Friday in the journal Science, Physicists at MIT and the University of Innsbruck in Austria have created a quantum computer out of just five atoms in an ion trap that ...

We determine the cost of performing Shor’s algorithm for integer factorization on a ternary quantum computer, using two natural models of universal fault tolerant computing on ternary quantum systems: ...