In an article by Garc\'ia-Pintos et al. [Rev. Lett. 125, 040601 (2020)] the connection between the charging power of a quantum battery and the fluctuations of a "free energy operator" whose expectation value characterizes the maximum extractable work of the battery is studied. The result of the closed-system analysis shows that for a general charging process the battery will have a nonzero charging power if and only if the state of the battery is not an eigenstate of the free energy operator. In this Comment, we point out a few mistakes in the analysis and obtain the correct bound on the charging power. Consequently, the result for closed-system dynamics is in general not correct.
@article{arxiv.2102.04921,
title = {Comment on "Fluctuations in Extractable Work Bound the Charging Power of Quantum Batteries"},
author = {Shang-Yung Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04921},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
1 page, comment on arXiv:1909.03558, completely rewritten with focus on closed-system analysis