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Fluctuations of the excess heat in an out of equilibrium steady state are experimentally investigated in two stochastic systems : an electric circuit with an imposed mean current and a harmonic oscillator driven out of equilibrium by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sylvain Joubaud , Nicolas Garnier , Sergio Ciliberto

The characteristic function for the joint measurement of the changes of two commuting observables upon an external forcing of a quantum system is derived. In particular, the statistics of the internal energy, the exchanged heat and the work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-18 Peter Talkner , Michele Campisi , Peter Hänggi

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

Quantum batteries are prone to loosing their stored charge, when interacting with a thermal environment. However, getting a limited assistance from the thermal environment, is it possible to recover the charge back, in a reusable form? Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Debanjan Dey Sarkar , Mallika Mondal , Preeti Parashar , Tamal Guha

Superconducting qubits are an attractive platform for quantum computing since they have demonstrated high-fidelity quantum gates and extensibility to modest system sizes. Nonetheless, an outstanding challenge is stabilizing their…

In this paper, we derive a number of inequalities which express power-efficiency trade-offs that hold generally for thermodynamic machines operating in non-equilibrium stationary states. One of these inequalities concerns the output power,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Hadrien Vroylandt , David Lacoste , Gatien Verley

Charged systems interacting via Coulomb forces can be efficiently simulated by introducing a local, diffusing degree of freedom for the electric field. This paper formulates the continuum electrodynamic equations corresponding to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. C. Maggs

Nonreciprocity, arising from the breaking of time-reversal symmetry, has become a fundamental tool in diverse quantum technology applications. It enables directional flow of signals and efficient noise suppression, constituting a key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Borhan Ahmadi , Paweł Mazurek , Paweł Horodecki , Shabir Barzanjeh

We investigate the ability of a homogeneous collection of deferrable energy loads to behave as a battery; that is, to absorb and release energy in a controllable fashion up to fixed and predetermined limits on volume, charge rate and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Daria Madjidian , Mardavij Roozbehani , Munther A. Dahleh

We consider how charging performances of a quantum battery, modeled as a two-level system, are influenced by the presence of vacuum fluctuations of a quantum field satisfying the Dirichlet, transparent, and Neumann boundary conditions in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-13 Zehua Tian , Xiaobao Liu , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing

Constraints on work extraction are fundamental to our operational understanding of the thermodynamics of both classical and quantum systems. In the quantum setting, finite-time control operations typically generate coherence in the…

We investigate bias-driven non-equilibrium quantum phase transitions in a paradigmatic quantum-transport setup: an interacting quantum dot coupled to non-interacting metallic leads. Using the Random Phase Approximation, which is exact in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 José F. B. Afonso , Stefan Kirchner , Pedro Ribeiro

Quantum battery (QB) is the energy storage and extraction device that is governed by the principles of quantum mechanics. Here we propose a three-level Dicke QB and investigate its charging process by considering three quantum optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Dong-Lin Yang , Fang-Mei Yang , Fu-Quan Dou

Employing the stochastic wave function method, we study quantum features of stochastic entropy production in nonequilibrium processes of open systems. It is demonstarted that continuous measurements on the environment introduce an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-16 B. Leggio , A. Napoli , A. Messina , H. -P. Breuer

Quantum battery (QB) is a conceptually new energy storage and conversion device, which consists usually of a quantum charger and an energy store (called usually as the QB for simplicity). The demonstrated advantage of QB, over its classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Y. F. Li , S. R. He , P. H. Ouyang , X. N. Feng , L. F. Wei

The close relationship between the noise and the thermoelectric conversion is studied in a quantum dot using a quantum approach based on the non-equilibrium Green function technique. We show that both the figure of merit and the efficiency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 A. Crépieux , F. Michelini

A suitable way of quantifying work for microscopic quantum systems has been constantly debated in the field of quantum thermodynamics. One natural approach is to measure the average increase in energy of an ancillary system, called the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Nelly Huei Ying Ng , Mischa Woods , Stephanie Wehner

We investigate the ability of a homogeneous collection of deferrable energy loads to behave as a battery; that is, to absorb and release energy in a controllable fashion up to fixed and predetermined limits on volume, charge rate and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Daria Madjidian , Mardavij Roozbehani , Munther A. Dahleh

Motivated by proposed thermometry measurement on an open quantum system, we present a simple model of an externally driven qubit interacting with a finite sized, fermion environment acting as calorimeter. The derived dynamics is governed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Antti Kupiainen , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Jukka Pekola , Kay Schwieger

Ergotropy serves as a key indicator for assessing the performance of quantum batteries(QBs). Using the Redfield master equation, we investigate ergotropy dynamics in a non-Markovian QB composed of an N-spin chain embedded in a microcavity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Shun-Cai Zhao , Zi-Ran Zhao , Ni-Ya Zhuang