Peter W. Shor (Rev #1) in nLab

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Selected writings

Introducing Shor's algorithm:

• Peter W. Shor, Algorithms for quantum computation: discrete logarithms and factoring, Proceedings 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, IEEE Comput. Soc. Press: 124-134 (1994) (doi:10.1109/SFCS.1994.365700)

Introducing the notion of quantum error correcting codes:

• Peter W. Shor, Scheme for reducing decoherence in quantum computer memory, Phys. Rev. A 52, R2493(R) 1995 (doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.52.R2493)

• Robert Calderbank, Peter W. Shor, Good Quantum Error-Correcting Codes Exist, Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 1098-1106, 1996 (doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.54.1098)