Open Call for Science and Technology Created by Early-Stage (e.g. University) Teams

There are numerous ongoing research and development efforts on SansEC technology for applications to enhance warfighter and commercial technologies. Two major SansEC applications of interest are (1) the detection of damage on composite airframes, (2) the measuring of the shape of morphing airframes actively in-flight, and subsequently feeding this information back to a flight control system in real-time. These applications are critical when requiring information on the effects of lightning strikes on the airframe, on drag reduction over plane wings, and on noise reductions due to ionized plasma sheath regions around the wings. SansEC applications can be computationally extensive on classical computers depending on the application, size, and complexity of a single sensor or sensor mesh. This is due to the series of Maxwell’s equations to be solved. The limitations of classical computer and algorithms are well established. This effort aims to develop a qubit unitary lattice algorithm for the time-dependent solution of Maxwell’s equations for SansEC sensors in varying material media. The application of quantum algorithms to SansEC sensors is of use to military and commercial customers because it would allow for real-time diagnostic monitoring of the structure and health of composite materials for in-flight static and morphing airframes.