Quantum battery with non-Hermitian charging
Abstract
We propose a design of a quantum battery exploiting the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian as a charger. In particular, starting with the ground or the thermal state of the interacting (non-interacting) Hamiltonian as the battery, the charging of the battery is performed via parity-time (PT)- and rotational-time (RT)-symmetric Hamiltonian to store energy. We report that such a quenching with a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian leads to an enhanced power output compared to a battery with a Hermitian charger. We identify the region in the parameter space which provides the gain in performance. We also demonstrate that the improvements persist with the increase of system size for batteries with both PT- and RT-symmetric chargers. In the PT-symmetric case, although the anisotropy of the XY model does not help in the performance, we show that the XXZ model as a battery with a non-Hermitian charger performs better than that of the XX model having certain interaction strengths. We also exhibit that the advantage of non-Hermiticity remains valid even at finite temperatures in the initial states.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2203.09497,
title = {Quantum battery with non-Hermitian charging},
author = {Tanoy Kanti Konar and Leela Ganesh Chandra Lakkaraju and Aditi Sen De},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.09497},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
v1: 10 pages, 12 figures, v2: 13 pages, 12 figures, added implementation of quantum battery and improved presentation, close to publish version