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Quantum batteries are energy storage devices that satisfy quantum mechanical principles. How to obtain analytical solutions for quantum battery systems and achieve a full charging is a crucial element of the quantum battery. Here, we…

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A fully operational loss-free quantum battery requires an inherent control over the energy transfer process, with the ability of keeping the energy retained with no leakage. Moreover, it also requires a stable discharge mechanism, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Alan C. Santos , Andreia Saguia , Marcelo S. Sarandy

We demonstrate an asymmetry between the beneficial effects one can obtain using non-local operations and non-local states to mitigate the detrimental effects of environmental noise in the work extraction from quantum battery models.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Salvatore Tirone , Raffaele Salvia , Stefano Chessa , Vittorio Giovannetti

Ergotropy is defined as the maximum amount of work that can be extracted through a unitary cyclic evolution. It plays a crucial role in assessing the work capacity of a quantum system. Recently, the significance of quantum coherence in work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Zhibo Niu , Yang Wu , Yunhan Wang , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

We present a theoretical analysis of the energy recovery efficiency for quantum batteries composed of many identical quantum cells undergoing noise. While the possibility of using quantum effects to speed up the charging processes of…

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We investigate the open system dynamics of a micromaser quantum battery operating in the ultrastrong coupling (USC) regime under environmental dissipation. The battery consists of a single-mode electromagnetic cavity sequentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Maristella Crotti , Luca Razzoli , Luigi Giannelli , Giuseppe A. Falci , Giuliano Benenti

With the progress of nano-technology, thermodynamics also has to be scaled down, calling for specific protocols to extract and measure work. Usually, such protocols involve the action of an external, classical field (the battery) of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Cyril Elouard , Maxime Richard , Alexia Auffèves

In this work, we investigate the amount of energy that can be extracted or charged through unitary operations when only minimal information about the state is known. Assuming knowledge of only the mean energy of the state, we start by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Andrea Canzio , Vasco Cavina , Roberto Menta , Vittorio Giovannetti

We investigate the charging process of quantum battery (QB) systems in an extended Dicke model with both atomic interactions and an external driving field. We focus on the effects of the atomic interaction and the external driving field on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Fu-Quan Dou , You-Qi Lu , Yuan-Jin Wang , Jian-An Sun

We present an efficient entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) for mobile electrons with charge detection. This protocol is quite different from other ECPs for one can obtain a maximally entangled pair from a pair of less-entangled state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yu-Bo Sheng , Lan Zhou , Wei-Wen Cheng , Long-Yan Gong , Sheng-Mei Zhao

We study the problem of charging a dissipative one-dimensional $XXX$ spin-chain quantum battery using local magnetic fields in the presence of spin decay. The introduction of quantum feedback control based on homodyne measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Y. Yao , X. Q. Shao

The block entanglement entropy and fluctuations are investigated in one dimension in finite size correlated electron systems using the Gutzwiller wave function as a prototype correlated electron state. Entanglement entropy shows logarithmic…

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Recent experiments have demonstrated the generation of coherent mechanical oscillations in a suspended carbon nanotube, which are driven by an electric current through the device above a certain voltage threshold, in close analogy with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Oisin Culhane , Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold

This study examines the performance of finite spin quantum batteries (QBs) using Heisenberg spin models with Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM) and Kaplan--Shekhtman--Entin-Wohlman--Aharony (KSEA) interactions. The QBs are modeled as interacting…

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

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

Complete quantum charging provides a sharp setting in which to ask how much multipartite entanglement is forced by speed itself. For a closed \(N\)-qubit battery evolving from \(\ket{\downarrow}^{\otimes N}\) to \(\ket{\uparrow}^{\otimes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Wenlong Sun , Gang Lu , Yuanfeng Jin

We investigate ergotropy dynamics in a graphene-based quantum battery modeled as a four-level spin--valley system under different dissipative environments. The battery is charged via a Gaussian pulse and subsequently evolves under amplitude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Disha Verma , Indrajith VS , R. Sankaranarayanan

We present two entanglement concentration protocols (ECPs) for arbitrary three-electron W state based on their charges and spins. Different from other ECPs, in both two ECPs, with the help of the electronic polarization beam splitter (PBS)…

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