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In the past, we have observed several large blackouts, i.e. loss of power to large areas. It has been noted by several researchers that these large blackouts are a result of a cascade of failures of various components. As a power grid is…
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To scale quantum computers to useful levels, we must build networks of quantum computational nodes that can share entanglement for use in distributed forms of quantum algorithms. In one proposed architecture, node-to-node entanglement is…
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Tensor analysis has been a widely studied in physics applications including circuit theory and electric machines. This paper reviews some of the main features of this type of representation for unbalanced power distribution systems and…
We apply model reduction techniques to the DeMarco power grid model. The DeMarco model, when augmented by an appropriate line failure mechanism, can be used to study cascade failures. Here we examine the DeMarco model without the line…
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