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We consider the task of extracting work from quantum systems in the resource theory perspective of thermodynamics, where free states are arbitrary thermal states, and allowed operations are energy conserving unitary transformations. Taking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Paul Skrzypczyk , Anthony J. Short , Sandu Popescu

Quantum thermodynamics allows for the interconversion of quantum coherence and mechanical work. Quantum coherence is thus a potential physical resource for quantum machines. However, formulating a general nonequilibrium thermodynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Franklin L. S. Rodrigues , Eric Lutz

The second law of thermodynamics uses change in free energy of macroscopic systems to set a bound on performed work. Ergotropy plays a similar role in microscopic scenarios, and is defined as the maximum amount of energy that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Tanmoy Biswas , Marcin Łobejko , Paweł Mazurek , Konrad Jałowiecki , Michał Horodecki

We propose a physical scheme of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt battery and utilize quantum work extraction as a probe to witness the thermal nature of the Unruh effect induced by the accelerated motion. By employing the open quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 Wei-Wei Zhang , Tian-Xi Ren , Yin-Zhong Wu , Xiang Hao

The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of interacting quantum many-body systems is investigated within the framework of thermal time-dependent density functional theory using a generalized linear-response formulation for the full quantum work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Antonio Palamara , Francesco Plastina , Antonello Sindona , Irene D'Amico

This paper explores quantum heat engines based on qubit and qutrit working media interacting with thermal environments through generalized amplitude damping (GAD) channels. We investigate how quantum channels can be employed to model heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Indrajith VS , Disha Verma

A fundamental problem in quantum thermodynamics is to properly quantify the work extractable from out-of-equilibrium systems. While for closed systems, maximum quantum work extraction is defined in terms of the ergotropy functional, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Riccardo Castellano , Donato Farina , Vittorio Giovannetti , Antonio Acin

We develop a thermodynamic characterization of multimode entanglement in pure continuous-variable systems by quantifying the gap between globally and locally extractable work (ergotropy). For arbitrary pure multimode Gaussian states, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Mrinmoy Samanta , Sudipta Mondal , Ayan Patra , Saptarshi Roy , Aditi Sen De

Quantum thermodynamics is often formulated as a theory with constrained access to operations and resources. In this manuscript, we find a closed formula for the Gaussian ergotropy, i.e. the maximum energy that can be extracted from bosonic…

Going beyond isolated system dynamics, we examine how local and spatially correlated reservoirs influence the work extraction in quantum batteries. By employing a one-dimensional spin-1/2 model coupled to baths via dephasing and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Sejal Ahuja , Tanoy Kanti Konar , Aditi Sen De

Quantum coherence, encoded in the off-diagonal elements of a system's density matrix, is a key resource in quantum thermodynamics, fundamentally limiting the maximum extractable work known as ergotropy. While previous experiments have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Li Li , Silu Zhao , Yun-Hao Shi , Kai Xu , Heng Fan , Dongning Zheng , Zhongcheng Xiang

We analyze the role of indirect quantum measurements in work extraction from quantum systems in nonequilibrium states. In particular, we focus on the work that can be obtained by exploiting the correlations shared between the system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-24 Gonzalo Manzano , Francesco Plastina , Roberta Zambrini

Quantifying multipartite entanglement in quantum many-body systems and hybrid quantum computing architectures is a fundamental yet challenging task. In recent years, thermodynamic quantities such as the maximum extractable work from an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Harsh Sharma , Sampriti Saha , A. S. Majumdar , Manik Banik , Himadri Shekhar Dhar

Quantum correlations are at the core of quantum mechanics and play a crucial role in various fields. While bipartite quantum correlations have been extensively studied, multipartite quantum correlations in many-body systems remain elusive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Toshihiro Yada , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Takahiro Sagawa

Quantum work capacitances and maximal asymptotic work/energy ratios are figures of merit characterizing the robustness against noise of work extraction processes in quantum batteries formed by collections of quantum systems. In this paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Salvatore Tirone , Raffaele Salvia , Stefano Chessa , Vittorio Giovannetti

Quantum many-body scars break ergodicity and evade thermalization, resulting in sub-volume law entanglement entropy even with high energy density. While their quantum correlations and entanglement have been elaborated previously, their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Zhaohui Zhi , Qingyun Qian , Jin-Guo Liu , Guo-Yi Zhu

Many-body localization is a dynamical phenomenon characteristic of strongly interacting and disordered many-body quantum systems which fail to achieve thermal equilibrium. From a quantum information perspective, the fingerprint of this…

Nonlocality is a defining feature of quantum mechanics and has long served as a key indicator of quantum resources since the formulation of Bell's inequalities. Identifying the contribution of nonlocality to extractable work remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 B. Vigneshwar , R. Sankaranarayanan

Recently, the concept of daemonic ergotropy has been introduced to quantify the maximum energy that can be obtained from a quantum system through an ancilla-assisted work extraction protocol based on information gain via projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-12 Fabian Bernards , Matthias Kleinmann , Otfried Gühne , Mauro Paternostro

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