The key is not just improving quantum hardware or algorithms but optimizing the entire stack—from hardware and software to ...

Developed in 1994 by US mathematician Peter Shor, Shor’s algorithm is a quantum computer algorithm for calculating the prime factors of a number. While it may be easy to discern the prime ...

Quantum computing has promised revolutionary breakthroughs across sectors, from cryptography to artificial intelligence.

Quantum computers will one day outpace the fastest supercomputers on the planet, but what will they be used to accomplish?

Quantum computing has long been touted as a potential threat to RSA encryption due to algorithms like Shor's algorithm, which, in theory, can factor large numbers exponentially faster than ...

Your work will be autograded. We will describe Shor's algorithm and as part of Shor's algorithm show how Quantum Fourier Transform (a very useful operation for quantum systems) is computed. We will ...

This promise is based on a quantum factoring algorithm proposed in 1994 by Peter Shor, who is now a professor at MIT. But ...

Some popular quantum algorithms include Shor’s algorithm for factoring large numbers, and Grover’s algorithm for searching unsorted databases. Quantum algorithms exploit the phenomena of ...

There’s little doubt that some of the most important pillars of modern cryptography will tumble spectacularly once quantum computing, now in its infancy, matures sufficiently. Some experts say that ...

American mathematician Peter Shor became the first to do so when he introduced a quantum algorithm that could efficiently factorize large numbers. Factorization is the process of finding the ...