AIandQuantum

  • Why Grover and Shor Didn’t “Change Everything” Yet

    Why Grover and Shor Didn’t “Change Everything” Yet

    Realities, limitations, and common misconceptions about quantum algorithms Introduction Grover’s search algorithm and Shor’s factoring algorithm are often presented as the two “killer apps” of quantum computing. They are elegant, mathematically powerful, and genuinely important milestones in the history of computation. Yet many people notice something confusing: decades after these algorithms were discovered, the…