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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…

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Quantum batteries are emerging as highly efficient energy storage devices that can exceed classical performance limits. Although there have been significant advancements in controlling these systems, challenges remain in stabilizing stored…

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Distillation, or purification, is central to the practical use of quantum resources in noisy settings often encountered in quantum communication and computation. Conventionally, distillation requires using some restricted 'free' operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Xiao Yuan , Bartosz Regula , Ryuji Takagi , Mile Gu

We investigate a quantum battery system under both external driving and dissipation. The system consists of a coupled two-level charger and battery immersed in nonequilibrium fermionic reservoirs. By considering the changes in the energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Zhihai Wang , Hongwei Yu , Jin Wang

Energy storage is a basic physical process with many applications. When considering this task at the quantum scale, it becomes important to optimise the non-equilibrium dynamics of energy transfer to the storage device or battery. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold , Javier Prior

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

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

Quantum-enhanced measurements exploit quantum mechanical effects for increasing the sensitivity of measurements of certain physical parameters and have great potential for both fundamental science and concrete applications. Most of the…

Although implementing shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) in open quantum systems remains challenging due to the complex control schemes required for such systems, their powerful ability to rapidly steer the system toward target states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Sh. Ebrahimi , S. Salimi , F. T. Tabesh , A. S. Khorashad

Energy extraction is a central task in thermodynamics. In quantum physics, ergotropy measures the amount of work extractable under cyclic Hamiltonian control. As its full extraction requires perfect knowledge of the initial state, however,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Dominik Šafránek , Dario Rosa , Felix Binder

The performance of quantum resource manipulation protocols, including key examples such as distillation of quantum entanglement, is measured in terms of the rate at which desired target states can be produced from a given noisy state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Ludovico Lami , Bartosz Regula , Ryuji Takagi

Minimizing both experimental effort and consumption of valuable quantum resources in state estimation is vital in practical quantum information processing. Here, we explore characterizing states as an additional benefit of the entanglement…

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Salvatore Tirone , Raffaele Salvia , Stefano Chessa , Vittorio Giovannetti

Energy dissipation, typically considered an undesirable process, has recently been shown to be harnessed as a resource to optimize the performance of a quantum battery. Following this perspective, we introduce a novel technique of charging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Borhan Ahmadi , Paweł Mazurek , Shabir Barzanjeh , Paweł Horodecki

A system in thermal equilibrium with a bath will generally be in an athermal state, if the system-bath coupling is strong. In some cases, it will be possible to extract work from that athermal state, after disconnecting the system from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Felipe Barra , Alberto Imparato

We ask whether there exists a relation between controllability of the fluctuations in extractable energy of a quantum battery and (a) how open an arbitrary but fixed battery system is and (b) how large the battery is. We examine three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Anindita Sarkar , Paranjoy Chaki , Priya Ghosh , Ujjwal Sen

The ability to evaluate the outcomes of quantum annealers is essential for such devices to be used in complex computational tasks. We introduce a statistical test of the quality of Ising-based annealers' output based on the data only,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Krzysztof Domino , Mátyás Koniorczyk , Zbigniew Puchała

The maximum unitarily extractable work from a quantum system -- ergotropy -- is the basic principle behind quantum batteries, a rapidly emerging field. This work studies ergotropy in two quantum chaotic systems, the quantum kicked top and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Sreeram PG , J. Bharathi Kannan , S. Harshini Tekur , M. S. Santhanam

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

We consider a quantum battery modeled as a set of N independent two-level quantum systems driven by a time dependent classical source. Different figures of merit, such as stored energy, time of charging and energy quantum fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 A. Crescente , M. Carrega , M. Sassetti , D. Ferraro