The Early Days of Quantum Computation

2022/08/21 by Peter W. Shor, Shor, Peter W. · 3 voices · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2208.09964

arxiv published 2022/08/21 · arxiv updated 2022/10/26

Abstract

I recount some of my memories of the early development of quantum computation, including the discovery of the factoring algorithm, of error correcting codes, and of fault tolerance.

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