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Passive states of quantum systems are states from which no system energy can be extracted by any cyclic (unitary) process. Gibbs states of all temperatures are passive. Strong local (SL) passive states are defined to allow any general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael Frey , Ken Funo , Masahiro Hotta

Quantum computing algorithms require that the quantum register be initially present in a superposition state. To achieve this, we consider the practical problem of creating a coherent superposition state of several qubits. Owing to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Subhash Kak

Precision metrology and quantum measurement often demand matter be prepared in well defined quantum states for both internal and external degrees of freedom. Laser-cooled neutral atoms localized in a deeply confining optical potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun Ye , H. J. Kimble , Hidetoshi Katori

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis provides a framework for understanding thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems by characterizing statistical properties of local observables in energy eigenstates. Here we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-11 Pavel Orlov , Rustem Sharipov , Enej Ilievski

The grand canonical ensemble lies at the core of quantum and classical statistical mechanics. A small system thermalizes to this ensemble while exchanging heat and particles with a bath. A quantum system may exchange quantities represented…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-25 Nicole Yunger Halpern , Philippe Faist , Jonathan Oppenheim , Andreas Winter

We study thermalization within a quantum system with an enhanced capacity to store information. This system has been recently introduced to provide a prototype model of how a black hole processes and stores information. We perform a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Oleg Kaikov

We explore sufficient conditions for inseparability in mixed states with a globally conserved charge, such as a particle number. We argue that even separable states may contain entanglement in fixed charge sectors, as long as the state can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Zhanyu Ma , Cheolhee Han , Yigal Meir , Eran Sela

Quantum battery capacity, as a critical metric for quantifying energy storage and release in quantum systems, exhibits complex behaviors in curved spacetime and noisy environments. This study focuses on bipartite mixed state, aiming to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Xukun Wang , Xiaofen Huang , Zhihao Ma , Shao-Ming Fei , Tinggui Zhang

Finding a quantum battery model that displays a genuine quantum advantage, while being prone to experimental fabrication, is an extremely challenging task. In this Letter we propose a deceptively simple quantum battery model that displays a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Gian Marcello Andolina , Vittoria Stanzione , Vittorio Giovannetti , Marco Polini

Quantum state exclusion is the task of identifying at least one state from a known set that was not used in the preparation of a quantum system. A set of quantum states is said to admit state exclusion if there exists a measurement whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Debanjan Roy , Tathagata Gupta , Pratik Ghosal , Samrat Sen , Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay

The quantum battery (QB) makes use of quantum effects to store and supply energy, which may outperform its classical counterpart. However, there are two challenges in this field. One is that the environment-induced decoherence causes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Wan-Lu Song , Hai-Bin Liu , Bin Zhou , Wan-Li Yang , Jun-Hong An

The interaction of a moving charged particle with its coherent electromagnetic field is analysed in the framework of non-relativistic quantum mechanics. It is shown that, when this interaction is taken into account, a spatially localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Miglietta

We consider an interaction of charged bodies under the following simplified conditions: the distribution of charge over each body is stable; the interaction of bodies is governed by electrical forces only. Physically, these assumptions can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-06 A. A. Kolpakov , A. G. Kolpakov

Quantum batteries, as highly efficient energy storage devices, have garnered significant research interest. A key challenge in their development is to maximize the extractable energy (ergotropy) when operating within a finite-temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Y. Yao , X. Q. Shao

In the discussion about the quantumness of NMR computation a conclusion is done that computational states are separable and therefore can not be entangled. This conclusion is based on the assumption that the initial density matrix of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander R. Kessel , Vladimir L. Ermakov

A single electron dynamic memory is designed based on the non-equilibrium dynamics of charge states in electrostatically-defined metallic quantum dots. Using the orthodox theory for computing the transfer rates and a master equation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Mykhailo Klymenko , Michael Klein , Raphael Levine , Francoise Remacle

This dissertation discusses some properties of topologically ordered states as they appear in the setting of infinite quantum spin systems. We begin by studying the set of infinite volume ground states for Kitaev's abelian quantum double…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Matthew Cha

The class of possible thermodynamic conversions can be extended by introducing an auxiliary system called catalyst, which assists state conversion while remaining its own state unchanged. We reveal a complete characterization of catalytic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Naoto Shiraishi , Takahiro Sagawa

Recently, an unconditional advantage has been demonstrated for the process of charging of a quantum battery in a collisional model. Motivated by the question of whether such an advantage could be observed experimentally, we consider a model…

Energy-storage singularities in quantum batteries are often associated with equilibrium quantum criticality. Here we show that, in quench-driven many-body batteries, such singularities can originate from dynamical criticality in momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Zheng Liu , Wen-Hui Nie , Yi-jia Yang , Lin-Cheng Wang , Chang-shui Yu