Novel Quantum Computation Based Selection Operator for Genetic Algorithms Applied to Electromagnetic Problems

Quantum computing is an extremely promising tool that could dramatically change many engineering fields where computationally heavy tasks have to be dealt with such as electromagnetic optimization. Electromagnetic problems, in fact, are extremely computationally expensive, and an heuristic optimization may need thousands of generations. In this paper, the problems and the potential of the introduction of quantum computing in optimization has been investigated. Numerical results on the preliminary test are provided here while more detailed results will be directly presented at the conference.