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Efficient operation of quantum batteries requires not only fast energy transfer but also the ability to halt the charging process to prevent reverse flow. Existing approaches typically rely on direct control of the charger-battery…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Songbo Xie , Manas Sajjan , Ashok Ajoy , Sabre Kais

In general, quantum systems most likely undergo open system dynamics due to their smallness and sensitivity. Energy storage devices, so-called quantum batteries, are not excluded from this phenomenon. Here, we study fundamental bounds on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 S. Zakavati , F. T. Tabesh , S. Salimi

Identifying the origin of enhanced charging performance in many-body quantum batteries remains a central challenge in quantum thermodynamics. It is unclear whether improvements in stored energy and instantaneous charging power stem from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Rohit Kumar Shukla , Sunil K. Mishra , Ujjwal Sen

The Dicke model is a fundamental model in quantum optics, which describes the interaction between quantum cavity field and a large ensemble of two-level atoms. In this work, we propose an efficient charging quantum battery achieved by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Wuji Zhang , Shuyue Wang , Chunfeng Wu , Gangcheng Wang

We explore the charging advantages of a many-body quantum battery driven by a Landau-Zener field. Such a system may be modeled as a Heisenberg XY spin chain with $\textit{N}$ interacting spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles under an external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Syed Abubacker Siddique , Md. Manirul Ali , Arijit Sen

Quantum catalysts enable transformations that otherwise would be forbidden, offering a pathway to surpass conventional limits in quantum information processing. Among them, embezzling catalysts stand out for achieving near-perfect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Haitao Ma , Yantong Li , Yingchun Kang , Bing Yu , Junjing Xing , Zhaobing Fan , Yunlong Xiao

The possibility to exploit quantum coherence to strongly enhance the efficiency of charge transport in solid state devices working at ambient conditions would pave the way to disruptive technological applications. In this work, we tackle…

Quantum batteries are energy-storing devices, governed by quantum mechanics, that promise high charging performance thanks to collective effects. Due to its experimental feasibility, the Dicke battery - which comprises $N$ two-level systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Paolo Andrea Erdman , Gian Marcello Andolina , Vittorio Giovannetti , Frank Noé

Quantum batteries (QBs), acting as energy storage devices, have potential applications in future quantum science and technology. However, the QBs inevitably losses energy due to their interaction with environment. How to enhance the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Xian-Li Yin , Meixi Guo , Jian Huang , Heung-wing Joseph Lee , Guofeng Zhang

Due to conservation of energy we cannot directly turn a quantum system with a definite energy into a superposition of different energies. However, if we have access to an additional resource in terms of a system with a high degree of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 Johan Aberg

Quantum batteries have attracted significant attention as efficient quantum energy storage devices.In this work, we propose a nonlinear two-photon driving quantum battery model featuring nonreciprocal dynamics that enables a highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Luxin Xu , Changliang Ren

Pulse charging can be used to boost up charging speed for lithium-ion batteries and delay battery capacity fading by periodically pausing the current during charging. However, this technique introduces intermittence for current and may thus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Yu Liu

Devices that use quantum advantages for storing energy in the degree of freedom of quantum systems have drawn attention due to their properties of working as quantum batteries. However, one can identify a number of problems that need to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Alan C. Santos

The charging of a quantum battery by a four-stroke quantum machine that works either as an engine or a refrigerator is investigated. The presented analysis provides the energetic behavior of the combined system in terms of the heat and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Jeongrak Son , Peter Talkner , Juzar Thingna

We consider the problem of maximizing the stored energy for a given charging duration in a quantum battery composed of a pair of spins-$1/2$ with Ising coupling starting from the spin-down state, using bounded transverse field control. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Vasileios Evangelakos , Emmanuel Paspalakis , Dionisis Stefanatos

We show that a cyclic unitary process can extract work from the thermodynamic equilibrium state of an engineered quantum dissipative process. Systems in the equilibrium states of these processes serve as batteries, storing energy. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Felipe Barra

This study investigates the role of EPR steering in characterizing the energy dynamics of quantum batteries (QBs) within \textcolor{black}{a charging system that features shared reservoirs. After optimizing parameter configurations to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Meng-Long Song , Zan Cao , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

We use optimal control theory to construct external electric fields which coherently transfer the electronic charge in a double quantum-dot system. Without truncation of the eigenstates we operate on desired superpositions of the states in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Putaja , E. Rasanen

In the quantum world, the process of energy storage can be enhanced thanks to various nonclassical phenomena. This inspiring fact suggests quantum batteries as plausible sources of power for future quantum devices, at least in principle.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

Transport phenomena on a quantum scale appear in a variety of systems, ranging from photosynthetic complexes to engineered quantum devices. It has been predicted that the efficiency of quantum transport can be enhanced through dynamic…