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Recently, there has been an upsurge of interest in quantum thermodynamic devices, notably quantum batteries. Quantum batteries serve as energy storage devices governed by the rules of quantum thermodynamics. Here, we propose a model of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Gourab Bhanja , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

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

In the context of quantum information, a quantum battery refers to a system composed of quantum particles that can store and release energy in a way that is governed by the principles of quantum mechanics. The study of open quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Maryam Hadipour , Soroush Haseli

Quantum batteries are energy storage or extract devices in a quantum system. Here, we present a closed-loop quantum battery by utilizing a closed-loop three-state quantum system in which the population dynamics depends on the three control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Fu-Quan Dou , Yuan-Jin Wang , Jian-An Sun

Energy can be stored in quantum batteries by electromagnetic fields as chargers. In this paper, the performance of a quantum battery with single and double chargers is studied. It is shown that by using two independent charging fields,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Mohammad B. Arjmandi , Abbas Shokri , Esfandyar Faizi , Hamidreza Mohammadi

Quantum energy science is rapidly emerging as a domain interested in the generation, transfer and storage of energy at the quantum level. In particular, quantum batteries have the scope to exploit the wonders of quantum mechanics in order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

We study the problem of charging a quantum battery in finite time. We demonstrate an analytical optimal protocol for the case of a single qubit. Extending this analysis to an array of N qubits, we demonstrate that an N-fold advantage in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Felix C. Binder , Sai Vinjanampathy , Kavan Modi , John Goold

Although implementing shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) in open quantum systems remains challenging due to the complex control schemes required for such systems, their powerful ability to rapidly steer the system toward target states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Sh. Ebrahimi , S. Salimi , F. T. Tabesh , A. S. Khorashad

We explore the wireless charging of a quantum battery (QB) via $n$ charging units, whose coupling is mediated by a common bosonic reservoir. We consider the general scenarios in which the charger energy is not maximal and the QB has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Ming-Liang Hu , Ting Gao , Heng Fan

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,…

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in quantum devices for the production, storage, and transfer of energy. In this Colloquium, we concentrate on the field of quantum energy storage by reviewing recent theoretical and…

We reconsider the quantum energetics and quantum thermodynamics of the charging process of a simple, two-component quantum battery model made up of a charger qubit and a single--cell battery qubit. We allow for the initial quantum state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

We consider a quantum battery modeled as a set of N independent two-level quantum systems driven by a time dependent classical source. Different figures of merit, such as stored energy, time of charging and energy quantum fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 A. Crescente , M. Carrega , M. Sassetti , D. Ferraro

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 André H. A. Malavazi , Borhan Ahmadi , Paweł Horodecki , Pedro R. Dieguez

A generalized collision model is developed to investigate coherent charging a single quantum battery by repeated interactions with many-atom large spins, where collective atom operators are adopted and the battery is modeled by a uniform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 P. Chen , T. S. Yin , Z. Q. Jiang , G. R. Jin

Quantum batteries are quantum systems that store energy which can then be used for quantum tasks. One relevant question about such systems concerns the differences and eventual advantages over their classical counterparts, whether in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Tiago F. F. Santos , Yohan Vianna de Almeida , Marcelo F. Santos

Energy dissipation, typically considered an undesirable process, has recently been shown to be harnessed as a resource to optimize the performance of a quantum battery. Following this perspective, we introduce a novel technique of charging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Borhan Ahmadi , Paweł Mazurek , Shabir Barzanjeh , Paweł Horodecki

Quantum batteries, small-scale energy storage devices based on quantum systems, offer the potential for enhanced charging performance through quantum effects such as coherence and collectivity. In this work, we study the collective charging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Chayan Purkait , B. Prasanna Venkatesh , Gentaro Watanabe

Starting from the observation that the reduced state of a system strongly coupled to a bath is, in general, an athermal state, we introduce and study a cyclic battery-charger quantum device that is in thermal equilibrium, or in a ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Felipe Barra , Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Alberto Imparato

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…