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It is the first implementation of Shor’s algorithm in which prior knowledge of the factors was not used to simplify the computational procedure. Finding the integer factors of a large odd number is a ...

Arxiv – Pretending to factor large numbers on a quantum computer – Shor’s algorithm for factoring in polynomial time on a quantum computer gives an enormous advantage over all known classical ...

Peter Shor, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains why he devised an algorithm for a quantum computer that could unravel our online data encryption. Celeste ...

The algorithm exploits quantum mechanics to simplify the factorisation of numbers into their prime components – a hard task for ordinary, classical computers when the numbers get really large. However ...

A research team led by Prof. PAN Jianwei with the University of Science and Technology of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been successful in performing Shor's algorithm, a quantum ...