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Quantum batteries are quantum mechanical systems with many degrees of freedom which can be used to store energy and that display fast charging. The physics behind fast charging is still unclear. Is this just due to the collective behavior…

Characterizing states of matter through the lens of their ergodic properties is a fascinating new direction of research. In the quantum realm, the many-body localization (MBL) was proposed to be the paradigmatic ergodicity breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 J. Šuntajs , J. Bonča , T. Prosen , L. Vidmar

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) represent a promising pathway toward achieving practical quantum advantage on near-term hardware. Despite this promise, for generic, expressive ans\"atze, their scalability is critically hindered by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Chenfeng Cao , Yeqing Zhou , Swamit Tannu , Nic Shannon , Robert Joynt

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

Many-body localized (MBL) systems are characterized by the absence of transport and thermalization, and therefore cannot be described by conventional statistical mechanics. In this paper, using analytic arguments and numerical simulations,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-11-11 Maksym Serbyn , Z. Papić , Dmitry A. Abanin

We investigate the optimal charging processes for several models of quantum batteries, finding how to maximize the energy stored in a given battery with a finite-time modulation of a set of external fields. We approach the problem using…

Many-body localization (MBL) is a result of the balance between interference-based Anderson localization and many-body interactions in an ultra-high dimensional Fock space. It is usually expected that dissipation is blurring interference…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-25 I. Vakulchyk , I. Yusipov , M. Ivanchenko , S. Flach , S. Denisov

Non-equilibrium physics including many-body localization (MBL) has attracted increasing attentions, but theoretical approaches of reliably studying non-equilibrium properties remain quite limited. In this Letter, we propose a systematic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Shuo Liu , Shi-Xin Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Hong Yao

While quantum batteries have been widely studied under static driving, their performance under periodic driving in many-body systems has received only limited attention. In this Letter, we uncover structural principles showing that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Rohit Kumar Shukla , Cheng Shang

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

In this review we consider the performance of the quantum adiabatic algorithm for the solution of decision problems. We divide the possible failure mechanisms into two sets: small gaps due to quantum phase transitions and small gaps due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 C. R. Laumann , R. Moessner , A. Scardicchio , S. L. Sondhi

Statistical mechanics provides a framework for describing the physics of large, complex many-body systems using only a few macroscopic parameters to determine the state of the system. For isolated quantum many-body systems, such a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-11 Piotr Sierant , Maciej Lewenstein , Antonello Scardicchio , Lev Vidmar , Jakub Zakrzewski

Many-body localization (MBL) transition emerges at strong disorder in interacting systems, separating chaotic and reversible dynamics. Although the existence of MBL transition within the macroscopic limit in spin chains with a short-range…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-06 Illia Lukin , Andrii Sotnikov , Alexander L. Burin

Many-body localization (MBL) appears to be a robust example of ergodicity breaking in many-body interacting systems. Here, we review different aspects of MBL, concentrating on various ways the disorder may be introduced into the system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-15 Konrad Pawlik , Maksym Prodius , Pedro R. Nicácio Falcão , Jakub Zakrzewski

We study the charging performance of a one-dimensional, many-body bosonic quantum battery driven by a harmonic-oscillator charger, focusing on how many-body effects and intra-species interactions influence the energy-transfer dynamics. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Duc Tuan Hoang , Thomas Busch , Thomás Fogarty

Due to a phenomenon of many-body localization (MBL), the strong disorder may significantly slow down or even completely hinder the thermalization of quantum many-body systems. A sufficiently deep quasiperiodic potential may also inhibit…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-14 Pedro R. Nicácio Falcão , Adith Sai Aramthottil , Piotr Sierant , Jakub Zakrzewski

We study the real-time dynamics of a translationally invariant quantum spin chain, based on the East kinetically constrained glass model, in search for evidence of many-body localisation in the absence of disorder. Numerical simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Merlijn van Horssen , Emanuele Levi , Juan P. Garrahan

We study a quantum battery (QB) model composed of two atoms, where the charger and battery elements are coupled to a multimode vacuum field that serves as a mediator for energy transfer. Different figures of merit such as ergotropy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Ming-Liang Hu , Ting Gao , Heng Fan

Collective behavior strongly influences the charging dynamics of quantum batteries (QBs). Here, we study the impact of nonlocal correlations on the energy stored in a system of $N$ QBs. A unitary charging protocol based on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-26 Dario Rosa , Davide Rossini , Gian Marcello Andolina , Marco Polini , Matteo Carrega

We propose a many-body quantum engine powered by the energy difference between the entangled ground state of the interacting system and local separable states. Performing local energy measurements on an interacting many-body system can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Étienne Jussiau , Léa Bresque , Alexia Auffèves , Kater W. Murch , Andrew N. Jordan