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Add Shor's Algorithm implementation

Open thotaDeepika opened this issue 1 month ago • 0 comments

Describe your change:

  • ✔ Add an algorithms

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  • [x] I have read CONTRIBUTING.md
  • [x] This pull request is all my own work
  • [x] I know that pull requests will not be merged if they fail the automated tests
  • [x] This PR only changes one algorithm file
  • [x] All new Python files are placed inside an existing directory
  • [x] All filenames are in all lowercase characters with no spaces or dashes
  • [x] All functions and variable names follow Python naming conventions
  • [x] All function parameters and return values are annotated with Python type hints
  • [x] All functions have doctests that pass the automated testing
  • [x] All new algorithms include at least one URL that points to Wikipedia

Fixes #12318

This PR implements Shor's Algorithm for integer factorization as a classical simulation, demonstrating how the algorithm breaks RSA cryptography without requiring Qiskit or Cirq.

thotaDeepika avatar Dec 06 '25 21:12 thotaDeepika