Peter W. Shor (Rev #3) 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)

Influential early discussion of (controlled) quantum logic gates:

• Adriano Barenco, Charles H. Bennett, Richard Cleve, David P. DiVincenzo, Norman Margolus, Peter W. Shor, Tycho Sleator, John A. Smolin, Harald Weinfurter, Elementary gates for quantum computation, Phys. Rev. A52 (1995) 3457 [[arXiv:quant-ph/9503016](https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9503016), doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.52.3457]

Introducing stabilizer codes:

• Robert Calderbank, E. M Rains, Peter W. Shor, N. J. A. Sloane, Quantum Error Correction and Orthogonal Geometry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78:405-408, 1997 (arXiv:quant-ph/9605005)