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Ergotropy provides a fundamental measure of the extractable work from a quantum system and, consequently, of the maximal useful energy, or charge, stored within it. Understanding how this quantity can be manipulated and transformed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 André H. A. Malavazi , Borhan Ahmadi , Paweł Horodecki , Pedro R. Dieguez

Quantum correlations that typically develop between a quantum battery and its charger reduce the amount of work extractable from the battery. We show that by coupling the system with an additional environment that can be continuously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Gabriele Cenedese , Giuliano Benenti , Dario Ferraro , Marco G. Genoni

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

Entanglement distillation is an indispensable ingredient in extended quantum communication networks. Distillation protocols are necessarily non-deterministic and require advanced experimental techniques such as noiseless amplification.…

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 establish a general implementation-independent approach to assess the potential advantage of using highly entangled quantum states between the initial and final states of the charging protocol to enhance the maximum charging power of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Ju-Yeon Gyhm , Uwe R. Fischer

Motivated by the recent interest in thermodynamics of micro- and mesoscopic quantum systems we study the maximal amount of work that can be reversibly extracted from a quantum system used to store temporarily energy. Guided by the notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-01 Robert Alicki , Mark Fannes

We investigate the issue of assisted coherence distillation in the asymptotic limit (considering infinite copies of the resource states), by coordinately performing the identical local operations on the auxiliary systems of each copy. When…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Huang-Qiu-Chen Wang , Qi Luo , Qi-Ping Su , Yong-Nan Sun , Nengji Zhou , Li Yu , Zhe Sun

This study examines the steady state characteristics of work extraction in a two cell and three cell quantum battery interacting with multiple thermal reservoirs. Employing the quantum master equation framework within the Born-Markov…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Maryam Hadipour , Soroush Haseli

Maximum quantum work extraction is generally defined in terms of the ergotropy functional, no matter how experimentally complicated is the implementation of the optimal unitary allowing for it, especially in the case of multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Riccardo Castellano , Ranieri Nery , Kyrylo Simonov , Donato Farina

We study a quantum battery (QB) model composed of two atoms, where the charger and battery elements are coupled to a multimode vacuum field that serves as a mediator for energy transfer. Different figures of merit such as ergotropy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Ming-Liang Hu , Ting Gao , Heng Fan

We investigate the problem of work extraction from a cavity-based quantum battery that is remotely charged via a transmission line composed of an array of coupled single-mode cavities. For uniform coupling along the line, we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 I. Beder , D. Ferraro , P. A. Brandão

We consider a model for a quantum battery consisting of a collection of $N$ two-level atoms driven by a classical field and decaying to a common reservoir. In the extensive regime, where the energy $E$ scales as $N$ and the fluctuations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Sagar Pokhrel , Julio Gea-Banacloche

Starting from the observation that the reduced state of a system strongly coupled to a bath is, in general, an athermal state, we introduce and study a cyclic battery-charger quantum device that is in thermal equilibrium, or in a ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Felipe Barra , Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Alberto Imparato

The dynamics of a system, consisting of a particle initially in a Gaussian state interacting with a field mode, under the action of repeated measurements performed on the particle, is examined. It is shown that regardless of its initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 Bruno Bellomo , Giuseppe Compagno , Hiromichi Nakazato , Kazuya Yuasa

Quantum batteries are miniature energy storage devices and play a very important role in quantum thermodynamics. In recent years, quantum batteries have been extensively studied, but limited in theoretical level. Here we report the…

In this work, we propose an open quantum battery that stores and releases energy by employing a two-mode ultrastrongly coupled bosonic system, with one mode (the charger) coupled to an independent heat reservoir. Our results demonstrate…

A repeated interaction process assisted by auxiliary thermal systems charges a quantum battery. The charging energy is supplied by switching on and off the interaction between the battery and the thermal systems. The charged state is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Felipe Barra

Quantum batteries, composed of quantum cells, are expected to outperform their classical analogs. The origin of such advantages lies in the role of quantum correlations, which may arise during the charging and discharging processes…

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