Antenna Array Thinning Through Quantum Computing

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel quantum computing approach using quantum Fourier transform to optimize antenna array thinning, offering potential advantages in array design efficiency.

Contribution

It presents a new quantum computing-based method for antenna array thinning, leveraging QFT to improve selection efficiency over traditional techniques.

Findings

Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the QC-based thinning method.

The proposed approach shows advantages in array design optimization.

Quantum Fourier transform enhances the selection process in antenna array thinning.

Abstract

Thinning antenna arrays through quantum Fourier transform (QFT) is proposed. Given the lattice of the candidate locations for the array elements, the problem of selecting which antenna location has to be either occupied or not by an array element is formulated in the quantum computing (QC) framework and then addressed with an ad-hoc design method based on a suitable implementation of the QFT algorithm. Representative numerical results are presented and discussed to point out the features and the advantages of the proposed QC-based thinning technique.