A quantum battery is a work reservoir that stores energy in quantum degrees of freedom. When immersed in an environment an open quantum battery needs to be stabilized against free energy leakage into the environment. For this purpose we here propose a simple protocol that relies on projective measurement and obeys a second-law like inequality for the battery entropy production rate.
@article{arxiv.1910.02458,
title = {Stabilizing Open Quantum Batteries by Sequential Measurements},
author = {Stefano Gherardini and Francesco Campaioli and Filippo Caruso and Felix C. Binder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.02458},
year = {2020}
}