# Semiclassical Shor's Algorithm

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**Semiclassical Shor's Algorithm**

We propose a semiclassical version of Shor's quantum algorithm to
factorize integer numbers, based on spin-1/2 SU(2) generalized coherent states.
Surprisingly, we find evidences that the algorithm's success probability is
not too severely modified by our semiclassical approximation. This suggests
that it is worth pursuing practical implementations of the algorithm on
semiclassical devices.