Antenna Array Thinning Through Quantum Fourier Transform

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.