Insights on Quantum Computing Operators for EM Optimization

Abstract

The introduction of quantum computing is right now dramatically impacting the research activities in many engineering fields, in particular where a lot of data have to be considered, stored, analyzed to find the best possible strategy to tackle a complex problem, such as dealing with electromagnetic (EM) optimization. In fact, EM problems are critical from a computational point of view, because they often require thousands of different numerical solutions that can be obtained by extremely time and resource consuming numerical solvers both in the frequency or in the time domain.In this framework, the combined application of quantum computing and evolutionary optimization algorithms can have a great effectiveness to manage the electromagnetic optimization of complex structures.