Entropy-based framework for quantum algorithm robustness: discriminating noise channel impacts on Shor’s period finding and establishing critical performance thresholds
摘要
Public-key cryptosystems such as RSA rely on the classical intractability of integer factorization, which is threatened by Shor’s quantum algorithm. While theoretically efficient, practical implementations face significant challenges due to noise in current quantum devices. This paper introduces an information-theoretic framework based on von Neumann entropy to analyze the robustness of Shor’s period-finding subroutine under various noise models. Through simulations of small moduli (