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We consider the problem of time optimal control of a continuous bosonic quantum system subject to the action of a Markovian dissipation. In particular, we consider the case of a one mode Gaussian quantum system prepared in an arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Alberto Carlini , Andrea Mari , Vittorio Giovannetti

Quantum channels model many physical processes. For this reason, hypothesis testing between quantum channels is a fundamental task in quantum information theory. Here we consider the paradigmatic case of channel position finding, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Jason L. Pereira , Quntao Zhuang , Stefano Pirandola

Quantum control allows us to address the problem of engineering quantum dynamics for special purposes. While recently the field of quantum batteries has attracted much attention, optimization of their charging has not benefited from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 R. R. Rodriguez , B. Ahmadi , G. Suarez , P. Mazurek , S. Barzanjeh , P. Horodecki

Quantum batteries (QBs) provide a platform for exploring quantum-scale energy storage, yet most existing analyses rely on weak-coupling and Markovian approximations. In realistic implementations operating in strongly coupled non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Zi-Yi Peng , Shun-Cai Zhao , Liang Luo , Ni-Ya Zhuang

Information engines harness measurement and feedback to convert energy into useful work. In this study, we investigate the fundamental trade-offs between ergotropic output power, thermodynamic efficiency and information-to-work conversion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Rasmus Hagman , Jonas Berx , Janine Splettstoesser , Henning Kirchberg

The extraction of energy is one of fundamental challenges in realizing quantum batteries (QBs). Here, we propose two wireless transfer schemes with parity-time symmetries to efficiently extract the energy stored in non-Hermitian QBs to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Fang-Mei Yang , Fu-Quan Dou

Quantum technologies are developing powerful tools to generate and manipulate coherent superpositions of different energy levels. Envisaging a new generation of energy-efficient quantum devices, here we explore how coherence can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Giulio Chiribella , Yuxiang Yang

We study the transfer of energy through a network of coupled oscillators, which represents a minimalmicroscopic power grid connecting multiple active quantum machines. We evaluate the resulting energy currentsin the macroscopic, thermal,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Julian Huber , Peter Rabl

In the ballistic limit, the Landauer conductance steps of a mesoscopic quantum wire have been explained by coherent and dissipationless transmission of individual electrons across a one-dimensional barrier. This leaves untouched the central…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mukunda P. Das , Frederick Green

A minimal energy quantum superposition of two maximally distinguishable, isoenergetic single mode Gaussian states is used to construct the system-environment representation of a class of linear bosonic quantum channels acting on a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 T. J. Volkoff

A quantum system which can store energy, and from which one can extract useful work, is known as a quantum battery. Such a device raises interesting issues surrounding how quantum physics can provide certain advantages in the charging,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

We analyze the problem of optimal adiabatic passage through a quantum critical point. We show that to minimize the number of defects the tuning parameter should be changed as a power-law in time. The optimal power is proportional to the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-08-15 Roman Barankov , Anatoli Polkovnikov

The optimal performance of a communication network is limited not only by the quality of point-to-point channels, but by the efficacy of its constituent technologies. Understanding the limits of quantum networks requires an understanding of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Cillian Harney , Stefano Pirandola

A theory of electron counting statistics in quantum transport is presented. It involves an idealized scheme of current measurement using a spin 1/2 coupled to the current so that it precesses at the rate proportional to the current. Within…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , H. -W. Lee , G. B. Lesovik

In quantum targeted energy transfer, bosons are transferred from a certain crystal site to an alternative one, utilizing a nonlinear resonance configuration similar to the classical targeted energy transfer. We use a novel computational…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 I. Andronis , G. Arapantonis , G. D. Barmparis , G. P. Tsironis

Quantum capacity, as the ultimate transmission rate of quantum communication, is characterized by regularized coherent information. In this work, we reformulate approximations of the quantum capacity by operator space norms and give both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Li Gao , Marius Junge , Nicholas LaRacuente

In this paper, we demonstrate an approach to quantum robust control based on the tools of geometric optimal control. The central objects of interest are the sensitivity functions defined as the coefficients in the Taylor expansion of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Francesca Albertini , Domenico D'Alessandro

Quantum batteries are anticipated to achieve significant advancements in energy storage capacity. In classical batteries, the energy density at each subsystem reaches its maximum value, denoted as $E_C$, which is determined by dividing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Masahiro Hotta , Kazuki Ikeda

The rate and security of quantum communications between users placed at arbitrary points of a quantum communication network depend on the structure of the network, on its extension and on the nature of the communication channels. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Lorenzo Cirigliano , Valentina Brosco , Claudio Castellano , Claudio Conti , Laura Pilozzi

Gate-based quantum computations represent an essential to realize near-term quantum computer architectures. A gate-model quantum neural network (QNN) is a QNN implemented on a gate-model quantum computer, realized via a set of unitaries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Laszlo Gyongyosi , Sandor Imre