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The quantum battery capacity is introduced in this letter as a figure of merit that expresses the potential of a quantum system to store and supply energy. It is defined as the difference between the highest and the lowest energy that can…

We introduce a cavity-coupled finite quantum system which can act as a quantum battery by harnessing noise induced coherences. We apply the methodology of full counting statistics to capture higher-order fluctuations of quanta exchange in…

We consider quantum batteries given by composite interacting quantum systems in terms of the thermodynamic work cost of local random unitary processes. We characterize quantum correlations by monitoring the average energy change and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Satoya Imai , Otfried Gühne , Stefan Nimmrichter

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,…

In this work, we study a hybrid quantum system composed of a quantum battery and a coherence-driven charger interacting with a Quantum Autonomous Thermal Machine (QATM). The QATM, made of two qubits, each coupled to Markovian bosonic…

Work extraction in quantum finite systems is an important issue in quantum thermodynamics. The optimal work extracted is called ergotropy, and it is achieved by maximizing the average work extracted over all the unitary cycles. However, an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Gianluca Francica , Luca Dell'Anna

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

In this review paper, we discuss the statistical description in non-equilibrium regimes of energy fluctuations originated by the interaction between a quantum system and a measurement apparatus applying a sequence of repeated quantum…

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

The trade-off between large power output, high efficiency and small fluctuations in the operation of heat engines has recently received interest in the context of thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs). Here we provide a concrete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Sara Kheradsoud , Nastaran Dashti , Maciej Misiorny , Patrick P. Potts , Janine Splettstoesser , Peter Samuelsson

We demonstrate the possibility of a genuine quantum advantage in the efficiency of quantum batteries by analyzing a model that enables a consistent comparison between quantum and classical regimes. Our system consists of $N$ harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 F. Cavaliere , D. Ferraro , M. Carrega , G. Benenti , M. Sassetti

Ergotropy--a key figure of merit for quantum battery (QB) performance--plays a crucial role. However, the dynamics and physical mechanisms governing ergotropy evolution remain open challenges. Here, we investigate the ergotropy of a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Cheng-Jie Wang , Fu-Quan Dou

A quantum battery is a temporary energy-storage system. We constructed the quantum battery model of an N-spin chain with nearest-neighbor hopping interaction and investigated the charging process of the quantum battery. We obtained the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 Fang Zhao , Fu-Quan Dou , Qing Zhao

We consider the dissipative charging process of quantum batteries in terms of a collisional model, where the batteries are coupled to a heat bath using non-energy preserving interactions. First, we show that for low temperatures the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Franco Mayo , Augusto J. Roncaglia

According to the Second Law of thermodynamics, the evolution of physical systems has a preferred direction, that is characterized by some positive entropy production. Here we propose a direct way to measure the stochastic entropy produced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-13 Juliette Monsel , Cyril Elouard , Alexia Auffèves

We derive the general probability distribution function of stochastic work for quantum Otto engines in which both the isochoric and driving processes are irreversible due to finite time duration. The time-dependent power fluctuations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-24 Guangqian Jiao , Shoubao Zhu , Jizhou He , Yongli Ma , Jianhui Wang

We propose a quantum charging scheme fueled by measurements on ancillary qubits serving as disposable chargers. A stream of identical qubits are sequentially coupled to a quantum battery of $N+1$ levels and measured by projective operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Jia-shun Yan , Jun Jing

In this work, we study the efficiency of charging a quantum battery through optical pumping. The battery consists of a qutrit and it is connected to a natural thermal reservoir and an external coherent drive in the limit where its upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Tiago F. F. Santos , Marcelo F. Santos

In realistic open-system environments, decoherence and dissipation naturally drive quantum batteries toward passive states, thereby limiting their maximum extractable work (ergotropy). While quantum catalysis has been proposed to mitigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Shun-Cai Zhao

A battery is a work storage device, i.e. a device that stores energy in the form of work for later use by other devices. In this work, we study the realization of a quantum battery in a double quantum dot in series, charged by two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Oscar Bohorquez