Re: Doubts about efficiency of Shor's factoring algorithm in quantum computers

[Perry E. Metzger]

Charles McElwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Follow-ups on this line of research will be interesting for the
> evaluation of any impact of quantum computers on cryptography, and
> even generally, since the decoherence behavior would tend to make
> quantum computers approximate improving classical computers.

Very interesting indeed. I'd be curious about the opinions of people
who know the field well. My QM and quantum computing knowledge aren't
quite up to the task of analyzing the paper.

> From the Physics pre-print server arXiv, quantum physics section:
> http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3076

Perry

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