Effects of imperfections for Shor’s factorization algorithm

I. GARCÍA-MATA; K.M. FRAHM; D.L. SHEPELYANSKY

PHYSICAL REVIEW A - ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS

Año: 2007 vol. 75 p. 52311 - 52321

1050-2947

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 which drops only polynomially with log2 N. The numerical dependence of ϵc on log2 N is explained by analytical estimates that allows one to obtain the scaling for functionality of Shor’s algorithm on realistic quantum computers with a large number of qubits.