COSC85/185-S96: Quantum Computation

For this part of the course we are working from the paper Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorisation and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer, P.W. Shor. (Submitted to SIAM Journal of Computing, 1995.)

Here is An instructive high-level description of Shor's algorithm.

Misc. links:


Quantum computation home pages: uk, nl, us.
On the Power of Quantum Computation. D. Simon.
In Proc. 35th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, pages 116-123, 1994.
Oracle Quantum Computing.A. Berthiaume and G. Brassard.
In Journal of Modern Optics, 41(12):2521-2535, 1994.
Algorithms for Quantum Computation: Discrete log and Factoring. P.W. Shor.
In Proc. 35th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, pages 20-22, 1994.
Shor's Quantum Algorithm for Factorising Numbers.A. Ekert et R. Jozsa.
In Review of Modern Physics, 1996. (to appear)
Elementary Gates for Quantum ComputationA. Barenco, C.H. Bennett, R. Cleve et al.
In Physical Review Letter A, 1995.
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