Challenges of integrated multi-infrastructure asset management: a review of pavement, sewer, and water distribution networks

The prosperity of urban life is dependent on its infrastructure. Urban underground infrastructure components (assets) are aging and need regular monitoring, maintenance and rehabilitation. These assets are often placed under pavements and in close vicinity to each other. Managing them in a coordinated way is rational considering costs and...

A Convergence Criterion of Newton’s Method Based on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

The objective in this article is to extend the applicability of Newton’s method for solving Banach space valued nonlinear equations. In particular, a new semi-local convergence criterion for Newton’s method (NM) based on Kantorovich theorem in Banach space is developed by application of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (HUP). The...

Building blocks of quantum repeater networks

Quantum preparation uncertainty and lack of information

The quantum uncertainty principle famously predicts that there exist measurements that are inherently incompatible, in the sense that their outcomes cannot be predicted simultaneously. In contrast, no such uncertainty exists in the classical domain, where all uncertainty results from ignorance about the exact state of the physical system....

Entropic uncertainty and measurement reversibility

The entropic uncertainty relation with quantum side information (EUR-QSI) from (Berta et al 2010 Nat. Phys. 6 659) is a unifying principle relating two distinctive features of quantum mechanics: quantum uncertainty due to measurement incompatibility, and entanglement. In these relations, quantum uncertainty takes the form of preparation...