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Science 27 April 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5824, pp. 554 - 555
DOI: 10.1126/science.1140915
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Perspectives

PHYSICS:
Factoring Numbers with Waves

M. Suhail Zubairy

Finding prime factors of a number by means of wave interference may have applications in quantum computing and security systems.

The author is in the Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA. Present address: Texas A&M University at Qatar, P.O. Box 23874, Education City, Doha, Qatar. E-mail: zubairy{at}physics.tamu.edu

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)