Chapter 21: Case Study: Portfolio Optimization

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Section plan:

Develops a complete example of financial portfolio optimization, including risk-return tradeoffs, binary asset selection, QUBO formulation, constraints, penalty weights, QAOA execution, and comparison with classical heuristics.