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Quantum batteries are energy storage devices built using quantum mechanical objects, which are developed with the aim of outperforming their classical counterparts. Proposing optimal designs of quantum batteries which are able to exploit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in quantum devices for the production, storage, and transfer of energy. In this Colloquium, we concentrate on the field of quantum energy storage by reviewing recent theoretical and…

We consider the problem of maximizing the stored energy for a given charging duration in a quantum battery composed of a pair of spins-$1/2$ with Ising coupling starting from the spin-down state, using bounded transverse field control. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Vasileios Evangelakos , Emmanuel Paspalakis , Dionisis Stefanatos

We provide an architecture for a multimode quantum battery (QB) based on the framework of continuous variable (CV) systems. We examine the performance of the battery by using a generic class of multimode initial states whose parameters can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Tanoy Kanti Konar , Ayan Patra , Rivu Gupta , Srijon Ghosh , Aditi Sen De

Devices that use quantum advantages for storing energy in the degree of freedom of quantum systems have drawn attention due to their properties of working as quantum batteries. However, one can identify a number of problems that need to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Alan C. Santos

To take quantum advantage of collective effects in many-body system, we design an elementary block for building multipartite quantum battery, which enables charging an atomic ensemble with optimal numbers in a common thermal bath. One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Tian-Ran Yang , Yu-Yu Zhang , Hui Dong , Libin Fu , Xiaoguang Wang

Quantum batteries are energy storage or extract devices in a quantum system. Here, we present a closed-loop quantum battery by utilizing a closed-loop three-state quantum system in which the population dynamics depends on the three control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Fu-Quan Dou , Yuan-Jin Wang , Jian-An Sun

Quantum advantage, broadly understood as the ability of quantum systems to significantly outperform their classical counterparts, underpins current interest to quantum technologies and is a topic of active investigation. In many situations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Andrei Stepanenko , Kseniia Chernova , Maxim Gorlach

We present an analysis of the availability and maximum extractable work of quantum batteries in the presence of charge and/or heat steady-state currents. Quantum batteries are modelled as non-interacting open quantum systems (mesoscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 F. H. Kamin , Z. Abuali , H. Ness , S. Salimi

Identifying the origin of enhanced charging performance in many-body quantum batteries remains a central challenge in quantum thermodynamics. It is unclear whether improvements in stored energy and instantaneous charging power stem from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Rohit Kumar Shukla , Sunil K. Mishra , Ujjwal Sen

We explore the charging of a quantum battery based on spin systems through periodic modulation of a transverse-field like Ising Hamiltonian. In the integrable limit, we find that resonance tunneling can lead to a higher transfer of energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Saikat Mondal , Sourav Bhattacharjee

Storing and extracting energy using quantum degrees of freedom is a promising approach to leveraging quantum effects in energy science. Early experimental efforts have already demonstrated its potential to surpass the charging power of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Anupam Sarkar , Sibasish Ghosh

The energy charging of a quantum battery is analyzed in an open quantum setting, where the interaction between the battery element and the external power source is mediated by an ancilla system (the quantum charger) that acts as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Donato Farina , Gian Marcello Andolina , Andrea Mari , Marco Polini , Vittorio Giovannetti

This study investigates the dynamics of quantum batteries (QBs), focusing on the pivotal role of quantum entanglement in mediating inter-cellular energy transfer within a two-cell configuration (two-qubit), wherein one cell is directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Ahmed A. Zahia , M. Y. Abd-Rabbou , Ahmed M. Megahed

Quantum batteries, small-scale energy storage devices based on quantum systems, offer the potential for enhanced charging performance through quantum effects such as coherence and collectivity. In this work, we study the collective charging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Chayan Purkait , B. Prasanna Venkatesh , Gentaro Watanabe

Quantum resources such as entanglement form the backbone of quantum technologies and their efficient generation is a central objective of modern quantum platforms. Independently, quantum batteries have emerged as nanoscale devices that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Vaibhav Sharma , Yiming Wang , Shouvik Sur

We explore the use of fractional control-not gates in quantum thermodynamics. The Nth-root gate allows for a paced application of two-qubit operations. We apply it in quantum thermodynamic protocols for charging a quantum battery. Circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Elliot Fox , Marcela Herrera , Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler , Irene D'Amico

Quantum battery concerns about population redistribution and energy dispatch over controllable quantum systems. Under unitary transformation, ergotropy rather than energy plays an essential role in describing the accumulated useful work.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Shi-fan Qi , Jun Jing

Within quantum thermodynamics, many tasks are modelled by processes that require work sources represented by out-of-equilibrium quantum systems, often dubbed quantum batteries, in which work can be deposited or from which work can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Pharnam Bakhshinezhad , Beniamin R. Jablonski , Felix C. Binder , Nicolai Friis

We introduce a quantum charging distance as the minimal time that it takes to reach one state (charged state) from another state (depleted state) via a unitary evolution, assuming limits on the resources invested into the driving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Ju-Yeon Gyhm , Dario Rosa , Dominik Šafránek