Shor's algorithm is possible with as few as 10k reconfigurable atomic qubits
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- #Shor's algorithm
- #quantum computing
- #quantum error correction
- Shor's algorithm can be performed with 10,000 reconfigurable atomic qubits.
- Higher physical qubit counts enhance parallelism, reducing runtime for tasks like discrete logarithms on elliptic curves.
- Recent neutral-atom experiments demonstrate fault-tolerant operations, trapping arrays with over 6,000 qubits.
- Theoretical analysis suggests neutral-atom architectures could enable cryptographically relevant quantum computation.