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Quantum batteries, microscopic devices designed to address energy demands in quantum technologies, promise high power during charging and discharging processes. Yet their practical usefulness and performance depend critically on…

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Ergotropy provides a fundamental measure of the extractable work from a quantum system and, consequently, of the maximal useful energy, or charge, stored within it. Understanding how this quantity can be manipulated and transformed…

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The challenge of storing energy efficiently and sustainably is highly prominent within modern scientific investigations. Due to the ongoing trend of miniaturization, the design of expressly quantum storage devices is itself a crucial task…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

We propose a novel approach for optimization of charging of harmonic oscillators (quantum batteries) coupled to a harmonic oscillator (charger), driven by laser field. We demonstrate that energy transfer limitations can be significantly…

Precision, robustness, and efficiency are crucial aspects in the design of quantum technologies. Here, we show how genuine quantum features, together with non-Gaussianity, can be the key elements to achieve the best of these three aspects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Davide Rinaldi , Radim Filip , Dario Gerace , Giacomo Guarnieri

Quantum batteries utilize nonclassical resources to achieve charging speed and energy storage performances that surpass classical thermodynamic limits. However, the practical realization of quantum batteries is often constrained by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Fan Yang , Hui Wang , Yusef Maleki , William J. Munro , Girish S. Agarwal , Marlan O. Scully

We investigate the connection between quantum resources and extractable work in quantum batteries. We demonstrate that quantum coherence in the battery or the battery-charger entanglement is a necessary resource for generating nonzero…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Hai-Long Shi , Shu Ding , Qing-Kun Wan , Xiao-Hui Wang , Wen-Li Yang

Quantum batteries are quantum mechanical systems able to store and release energy in a controlled fashion. Among them, a special role is played by quantum structures defined as networks of two-level systems. In this context, it has recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Riccardo Grazi , Dario Ferraro , Niccolò Traverso Ziani

Quantum computing promises the ability to compute properties of quantum systems exponentially faster than classical computers. Quantum advantage is achieved when a practical problem is solved more efficiently on a quantum computer than on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 William A. Simon , Peter J. Love

We present a scheme for the charging of a quantum battery based on the dynamics of an open quantum system undergoing coherent quantum squeezing and affected by an incoherent squeezed thermal bath. We show that quantum coherence, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Federico Centrone , Luca Mancino , Mauro Paternostro

Quantum batteries are quantum systems that store energy and deliver it on demand, and their practical value hinges on how fast they can be charged. While collective charging protocols and global control are known to enhance charging power,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Matthieu Sarkis , Oskar A. Prośniak , Samuel Nigro , Alexandre Tkatchenko

We define a quantum charger as an interacting quantum system that transfers energy between two drives. The key figure of merit characterizing a charger is its charging power. Remarkably, the presence of long-range interactions within the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-07 Harald Schmid , Felix von Oppen , Gil Refael , Yang Peng

Motivated by recent experimental observations carried out in superconducting transmon circuits, we compare two different charging protocols for three-level quantum batteries based on time dependent classical pulses. In the first case the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 G. Gemme , M. Grossi , S. Vallecorsa , M. Sassetti , D. Ferraro

We explore a protocol that efficiently charges multiple open quantum batteries in parallel using a single charger. This protocol shows super-extensive charging through collective coupling of the charger and the battery to the same thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Josephine Dias , Hui Wang , Kae Nemoto , Franco Nori , William J. Munro

In this paper we discuss a protocol for charging a two-level quantum battery using a bipartite charger composed of two quantum harmonic oscillators. As one of its features, it allows us to fully charge the battery and is universally optimal…

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

Within quantum thermodynamics, many tasks are modelled by processes that require work sources represented by out-of-equilibrium quantum systems, often dubbed quantum batteries, in which work can be deposited or from which work can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Pharnam Bakhshinezhad , Beniamin R. Jablonski , Felix C. Binder , Nicolai Friis

Metastability is ubiquitous in diverse complex systems. In open quantum systems, metastability offers protection against dissipation and decoherence, yet its application in quantum batteries remains unexplored. We propose a solid-state open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yuanjin Wang , Hao Wu , Qing Zhao

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

Exploiting many-body interaction and critical phenomena to improve the performance of quantum batteries is an emerging and promising line of research. A central question in this direction is whether quantum phase transitions can enhance the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 D. Farina , M. Sassetti , V. Cataudella , D. Ferraro , N. Traverso Ziani

Quantum battery has become one of the hot issues at the research frontiers of quantum physics recently. Charging power, extractable work and wireless charging over long-distance are three important aspects of interest. Non-contact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jun Wen , Zheng Wen , Ping Peng , Guan-Qiang Li