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Effects of imperfections for Shor's factorization algorithm

Quantum Physics 2007-09-06 v3

Abstract

We study effects of imperfections induced by residual couplings between qubits on the accuracy of Shor's algorithm using numerical simulations of realistic quantum computations with up to 30 qubits. The factoring of numbers up to N=943 show that the width of peaks, which frequencies allow to determine the factors, grow exponentially with the number of qubits. However, the algorithm remains operational up to a critical coupling strength ϵc\epsilon_c which drops only polynomially with log2N\log_2 N. The numerical dependence of ϵc\epsilon_c on log2N\log_2 N is explained by analytical estimates that allows to obtain the scaling for functionality of Shor's algorithm on realistic quantum computers with a large number of qubits.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0701169,
  title  = {Effects of imperfections for Shor's factorization algorithm},
  author = {Ignacio Garcia-Mata and Klaus M. Frahm and Dima L. Shepelyansky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0701169},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

10 pages, 10 figures, 1 table. Added references and new data. Erratum added as appendix. 1 Figure and 1 Table added. Research is available at http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.fr/