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We present Design-by-Morphing (DbM), a novel design methodology applicable to creating a search space for topology optimization of 2D airfoils. Most design techniques impose geometric constraints and sometimes designers' bias on the design…

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The design and optimisation of aircraft wings are critical tasks in aerospace engineering, requiring a balance between structural integrity, aerostructural performance, and manufacturability. This multifaceted challenge involves the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Hauke Maathuis , Saullo G. P. Castro , Roeland De Breuker

This paper presents a method for simultaneous optimization of the outer shape and internal topology of aircraft wings, with the objective of minimizing drag subject to lift and compliance constraints for multiple load cases. The physics are…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Lukas C. Høghøj , Cian Conlan-Smith , Ole Sigmund , Casper Schousboe Andreasen

The prospect of quantum solutions for complicated optimization problems is contingent on mapping the original problem onto a tractable quantum energy landscape, e.g. an Ising-type Hamiltonian. Subsequently, techniques like adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Sebastian Egginger , Kristina Kirova , Sonja Bruckner , Stefan Hillmich , Richard Kueng

One of the main bottlenecks in solving combinatorial optimization problems with quantum annealers is the qubit connectivity in the hardware. A possible solution for larger connectivty is minor embedding. This techniques makes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Michele Cattelan , Jemma Bennett , Sheir Yarkoni , Wolfgang Lechner

In this paper, we investigate reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) OAC systems designed to emulate the fully-connected (FC) layer of a neural network (NN) via analog OAC, where the RIS and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Meng Hua , Chenghong Bian , Haotian Wu , Deniz Gunduz

The application of quantum annealing to the optimization of continuous-variable functions is a relatively unexplored area of research. We test the performance of quantum annealing applied to a one-dimensional continuous-variable function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Shunta Arai , Hiroki Oshiyama , Hidetoshi Nishimori

From condensed matter to quantum chromodynamics, multidimensional spins are a fundamental paradigm, with a pivotal role in combinatorial optimization and machine learning. Machines formed by coupled parametric oscillators can simulate spin…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-29 Marcello Calvanese Strinati , Claudio Conti

The design of nonlinear dynamical systems whose gradient flows minimize the Ising Hamiltonian has emerged as a compelling paradigm for realizing Ising machines, forming the foundation of architectures including coherent Ising machines,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 E. M. Hasantha Ekanayake , Arvind R. Venkatakrishnan , Francesco Bullo , Nikhil Shukla

A spinwave Ising machine (SWIM) is a newly proposed type of time-multiplexed hardware solver for combinatorial optimization that employs feedback coupling and phase sensitive amplification to map an Ising Hamiltonian into phase-binarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Victor H. González , Artem Litvinenko , Roman Khymyn , Johan Åkerman

While shape optimization using isogeometric shells exhibits appealing features by integrating design geometries and analysis models, challenges arise when addressing computer-aided design (CAD) geometries comprised of multiple non-uniform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Han Zhao , John T. Hwang , J. S. Chen

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) enables solving combinatorial optimization problems on quantum computers by optimizing variational parameters for quantum circuits. We investigate a simplified approach that combines linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Ryo Sakai , Hiromichi Matsuyama , Wai-Hong Tam , Yu Yamashiro

Energy minimization of Ising spin-glasses has played a central role in statistical and solid-state physics, facilitating studies of phase transitions and magnetism. Recent proposals suggest using Ising spin-glasses for non-traditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-20 Hector J. Garcia , Igor L. Markov

We investigate the minimization of Ising Hamiltonians, comparing the performance of gain-based computing paradigms based on the dynamics of semi-classical soft-spin models with quantum annealing. We systematically analyze how the energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 James S. Cummins , Hayder Salman , Natalia G. Berloff

The aircraft loading optimization problem is a computationally hard problem with the best known classical algorithm scaling exponentially with the number of objects. We propose a quantum approach based on a multi-angle variant of the QAOA…

Current quantum annealing (QA) hardware suffers from practical limitations such as finite temperature, sparse connectivity, small qubit numbers, and control error. We propose new algorithms for mapping boolean constraint satisfaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Zhengbing Bian , Fabian Chudak , Robert Israel , Brad Lackey , William G. Macready , Aidan Roy

We study the performance scaling of three quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization: measurement-feedback coherent Ising machines (MFB-CIM), discrete adiabatic quantum computation (DAQC), and the D\"urr-Hoyer algorithm for quantum…

In this work, we start with a generic mathematical framework for the equations of motion (EOM) in flight mechanics with six degrees of freedom (6-DOF) for a general (not necessarily symmetric) fixed-wing aircraft. This mathematical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Osama A. Marzouk

Ising machines have emerged as accelerators for combinatorial optimization. To enable practical deployment, this work aims to reduce time-to-solution by addressing three challenges: (1) hardware topology, (2) spin selection and update…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Seungki Hong , Kyeongwon Jeong , Taekwang Jang

The integration of electromagnetic metasurfaces into wireless communications enables intelligent control of the propagation environment. Recently, flexible intelligent metasurfaces (FIMs) have evolved beyond conventional reconfigurable…

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