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Peter W. Shor | Researchclopedia

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Peter W. Shor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

265

Works

44,925

Citations

65

h-index

155

i10-index

Research Topics

Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture Quantum Information and Cryptography Quantum Mechanics and Applications

Affiliations

California Institute of Technology1982–2009

AT&T (United States)1987–2006

Alcatel Lucent (Germany)1992–1992

IBM (United States)1995–1995

University of California, Santa Barbara1997–1997

Top Works

Algorithms for quantum computation: discrete logarithms and factoring

20028,266 citations

Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata

Optimization and Packing Problems

Scheme for reducing decoherence in quantum computer memory

19954,390 citations

Elementary gates for quantum computation

Adriano Barenco,Charles H. Bennett,et al.

19954,253 citations

Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer

19993,727 citations

Simple Proof of Security of the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution Protocol

Peter W. Shor,John Preskill

20002,955 citations

Good quantum error-correcting codes exist

A.R. Calderbank,Peter W. Shor

19962,474 citations

Quantum nonlocality without entanglement

Charles H. Bennett,David P. DiVincenzo,et al.

19991,127 citations

Fault-tolerant quantum computation

2002877 citations

Remote State Preparation

Charles H. Bennett,David P. DiVincenzo,et al.

2001823 citations