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A Quantum Variational Approach to Phase-Only Pattern Synthesis

January 30, 2026Sigurd HuberQuantum ComputingAntenna arrays, Antennas, Iterative methods, Linear antenna arrays, Optimization, Phased arrays, Polynomials, Quantum annealing, Quantum computing, Transmitting antennas

Abstract: Phase-only pattern synthesis is a long-standing and hard to solve problem in antenna engineering. Due to its nonlinear nature, this kind of optimization problem is classically approached with iterative algorithms, where the convergence time depends on the problem topology. Often these heuristic solution routines get stuck in local optima and yield suboptimal results. This […]

Quantum Annealing Methods and Experimental Evaluation to the Phase-Unwrapping Problem in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging

The focus of this work is to explore the use of quantum annealing solvers for the problem of phase unwrapping of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Although solutions to this problem exist based on network programming, these techniques do not scale well to larger sized images. Our approach involves formulating the problem as a quadratic […]