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Comment on "Fluctuations in Extractable Work Bound the Charging Power of Quantum Batteries"

Quantum Physics 2021-07-14 v1

Abstract

In the abstract of~[Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 125}, 040601 (2020)] one can read that: [...]{\it to have a nonzero rate of change of the extractable work, the state ρW\rho_\mathcal{W} of the battery cannot be an eigenstate of a "free energy operator", defined by F=HW+β1logρW\mathcal{F}=H_\mathcal{W}+\beta^{-1}\log \rho_\mathcal{W}, where HWH_\mathcal{W} is the Hamiltonian of the battery and β\beta is the inverse temperature} [...]. Contrarily to what is presented below Eq.~(17) of the paper, we observe that the above conclusion does not hold when the battery is subject to nonunitary dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.2102.05627,
  title  = {Comment on "Fluctuations in Extractable Work Bound the Charging Power of Quantum Batteries"},
  author = {Stefano Cusumano and Łukasz Rudnicki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.05627},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

1 page, submitted to the journal the 23rd of December 2020