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We study the possibility of deterministic protocols for extracting work from quantum systems. Focusing on the two-point measurement work extraction scenario, we prove that, with enough copies of the system, such zero-fluctuation protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Raffaele Salvia , Vittorio Giovannetti

We investigate work extraction protocols designed to transfer the maximum possible energy to a battery using sequential access to $N$ copies of an unknown pure qubit state. The core challenge is designing interactions to optimally balance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Josep Lumbreras , Ruo Cheng Huang , Yanglin Hu , Mile Gu , Marco Tomamichel

One of the most fundamental tasks in quantum thermodynamics is extracting energy from one system and subsequently storing this energy in an appropriate battery. Both of these steps, work extraction and charging, can be viewed as cyclic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Nicolai Friis , Marcus Huber

We consider reversible work extraction from identical quantum batteries. From an ensemble of individually passive states, work can be produced only via global unitary (and thus entangling) operations. However, we show here that there always…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Marcus Huber , Antonio Acín

Work and quantum correlations are two fundamental resources in thermodynamics and quantum information theory. In this work we study how to use correlations among quantum systems to optimally store work. We analyse this question for isolated…

We formulate a general multi-mode Gaussian operator basis for fermions, to enable a positive phase-space representation of correlated Fermi states. The Gaussian basis extends existing bosonic phase-space methods to Fermi systems and thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. F. Corney , P. D. Drummond

Work extraction is a fundamental aspect in thermodynamics. In the context of quantum physics, ergotropy quantifies the maximum amount of work that can be obtained from quantum system through cyclic unitary process. In this work, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Maryam Hadipour , Soroush Haseli

We develop a method to obtain fermion spectral functions non-perturbatively in a non-Abelian gauge theory with high occupation numbers of gauge fields. After recovering the free field case, we extract the spectral function of fermions in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-12 Kirill Boguslavski , Tuomas Lappi , Mark Mace , Sören Schlichting

Quantum Non-Gaussian states are considered as a useful resource for many tasks in quantum information processing, from quantum metrology and quantum sensing to quantum communication and quantum key distribution. Another useful tool that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Seid Koudia , Abdelhakim Gharbi

Understanding the thermodynamic properties of quantum systems is essential for developing energy-efficient quantum technologies. In this regard, this work explores the application of quantum computational methods to study the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Lucas Galvão , Ana Clara das Neves , Maron Anka , Clebson Cruz

This paper introduces an innovative approach for representing Gaussian fermionic states, pivotal in quantum spin systems and fermionic models, within a range of alternative quantum bases. We focus on transitioning these states from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Babak Tarighi , Reyhaneh Khasseh , M. A. Rajabpour

We analyze to what extent it is possible to copy arbitrary states of a two-level quantum system. We show that there exists a "universal quantum copying machine", which approximately copies quantum mechanical states in such a way that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Vladimir Buzek , Mark Hillery

Quantum information-processing techniques enable work extraction from a system's inherently quantum features, in addition to the classical free energy it contains. Meanwhile, the science of computational mechanics affords tools for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Ruo Cheng Huang , Paul M. Riechers , Mile Gu , Varun Narasimhachar

While general quantum many-body systems require exponential resources to be simulated on a classical computer, systems of non-interacting fermions can be simulated exactly using polynomially scaling resources. Such systems may be of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-18 Norbert Schuch , Bela Bauer

This work explores displaced fermionic Gaussian operators with nonzero linear terms. We first demonstrate equivalence between several characterizations of displaced Gaussian states. We also provide an efficient classical simulation protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Xingjian Lyu , Kaifeng Bu

Under certain mild conditions, some limit theorems for functionals of two independent Gaussian processes are obtained. The results apply to general Gaussian processes including fractional Brownian motion, sub-fractional Brownian motion and…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Jian Song , Fangjun Xu , Qian Yu

We discuss a new numerical method for the determination of excited states of a quantum system using a generalization of the Feynman-Kac formula. The method relies on introducing an ensemble of non-interacting identical systems with a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Burda , Pawel Sawicki

All matter is made up of fermions -- one of the fundamental type of particles in nature. Fermions follow the Pauli exclusion principle, stating that two or more identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state. Antisymmetry of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Lucas Hackl , Dayang Li , Nika Akopian , Matthias Christandl

We review existing classical simulation methods for performing fermionic Gaussian operations and develop new methods to address the gap by adhering to the fundamental theoretical framework established by Bravyi [Quantum Info. Comput. 5, 216…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yinan Fang , Hyesung Choi , Minchul Lee , Mahn-Soo Choi

In finite-dimensional systems, circuit knitting can be used to simulate non-classical quantum operations using a limited set of resources. In this work, we extend circuit knitting techniques to infinite-dimensional quantum systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Shao-Hua Hu , Ray-Kuang Lee