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Prime factorization using quantum annealing and computational algebraic geometry

Quantum Physics 2017-03-21 v2 Cryptography and Security Commutative Algebra Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We investigate prime factorization from two perspectives: quantum annealing and computational algebraic geometry, specifically Gr\"obner bases. We present a novel scalable algorithm which combines the two approaches and leads to the factorization of all bi-primes up to just over 200000200 \, 000, the largest number factored to date using a quantum processor.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1604.05796,
  title  = {Prime factorization using quantum annealing and computational algebraic geometry},
  author = {Raouf Dridi and Hedayat Alghassi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.05796},
  year   = {2017}
}

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