  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.
