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We investigate the charging dynamics of a frequency-modulated quantum battery (QB) placed within a dissipative cavity environment. Our study focuses on the interaction of such a battery under both weak and strong coupling regimes, employing…

The work content of non-equilibrium systems in relation to a heat bath is often analyzed in terms of expectation values of an underlying random work variable. However, we show that when optimizing the expectation value of the extracted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Johan Aberg

The mechanism of extraction of information stored in a quantum memory is studied here in detail. We consider memories containing a single excitation of a collective atomic state, which is mapped into a single photon during the reading…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-16 Milrian S. Mendes , Pablo L. Saldanha , José W. R. Tabosa , Daniel Felinto

This study investigates the performance and ergotropy protection of open collective quantum batteries subject to superradiant decay. By employing a passive spectral detuning strategy within an intermediate cavity, an optimal detuning value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Tariq Zeyad Jawad

We show that it is possible to have non-zero ergotropy in the steady-states of an open quantum system consisting of qubits that are collectively coupled to a thermal bath at a finite temperature. The dynamics of our model leads the qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-12 Barış Çakmak

We introduce a cavity-coupled finite quantum system which can act as a quantum battery by harnessing noise induced coherences. We apply the methodology of full counting statistics to capture higher-order fluctuations of quanta exchange in…

In the quantum world, the process of energy storage can be enhanced thanks to various nonclassical phenomena. This inspiring fact suggests quantum batteries as plausible sources of power for future quantum devices, at least in principle.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

We put forth a notion of optimality for extracting ergotropic work, derived from an energy constraint governing the necessary dynamics for work extraction in a quantum system. Within the traditional ergotropy framework, which predicts an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Pritam Halder , Srijon Ghosh , Saptarshi Roy , Tamal Guha

Thermodynamics is traditionally concerned with systems comprised of a large number of particles. Here we present a framework for extending thermodynamics to individual quantum systems, including explicitly a thermal bath and work-storage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-29 Paul Skrzypczyk , Anthony J. Short , Sandu Popescu

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

As quantum photonic hardware scales toward computationally relevant sizes, energy consumption has emerged as a key constraint. Programmable photonic integrated circuits, composed of interferometer meshes with tunable phase modulators,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Maria Carolina Volpato , Gabriel da Silva Sampaio , Pierre-Louis de Assis

We studied the dynamics of entropic uncertainty in Markovian and non-Markovian systems during the charging of open quantum batteries (QBs) mediated by a common dissipation environment. In the non-Markovian regime, the battery is almost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Meng-Long Song , Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

We study the transferring of useful energy (work) along a transmission line that allows for partial preservation of quantum coherence. As a figure of merit we adopt the maximum values that ergotropy, total ergotropy, and non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Salvatore Tirone , Raffaele Salvia , Vittorio Giovannetti

We introduce a cyclic quantum battery model, based on an interacting bipartite system, weakly coupled to a thermal bath. The working cycle of the battery consists of four strokes: system thermalization, disconnection of subsystems,…

Nonstabilizerness plays an essential role in an efficient simulation of quantum systems on quantum computers. In this work, we investigate its role in the context of quantum batteries (QBs). To this end, we consider a system of N spin-1/2…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Tanoy Kanti Konar , Jakub Zakrzewski

We introduce a thermodynamic work extraction task that describes the energy storage enhancement of quantum systems, which is naturally related to quantum battery's charging process. This task induces majorisation-like conditions that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Chung-Yun Hsieh , Manuel Gessner

Quantum batteries are quantum systems used to store energy to be later extracted by an external agent in the form of work to perform some task. Here we study the charging of a hybrid quantum battery via a collisional model mediated by an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yohan Vianna de Almeida , Tiago F. F. Santos , Marcelo F. Santos

Quantum work is usually determined from two projective measurements of the energy at the beginning and at the end of a thermodynamic process. However, this paradigm cannot be considered thermodynamically consistent as it does not account…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Sebastian Deffner , Juan Pablo Paz , Wojciech H. Zurek

We investigate the ability of a homogeneous collection of deferrable energy loads to behave as a battery; that is, to absorb and release energy in a controllable fashion up to fixed and predetermined limits on volume, charge rate and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Daria Madjidian , Mardavij Roozbehani , Munther A. Dahleh

We investigate a two-qubit quantum battery where coherent charger-battery coupling competes with non-Markovian environmental interactions. By tuning the coupling strengths and detuning, we identify regimes in which environmental memory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Meysam Helmi Barati Farimani , Ali Mortezapour