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Entanglement is not only the resource that fuels many quantum technologies but also plays a key role for some of the most profound open questions of fundamental physics. Experiments controlling quantum systems at the single quantum level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Bjarne Bergh , Martin Gärttner

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

Since its discovery, quantum theory has proven to be one of the most precise theories ever made. Measurement processes, however, do not seem to be governed by the unitary law of quantum mechanics, and one can ask if the theory is complete.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-15 Thiago Guerreiro , Fernando Monteiro

Harnessing quantum phenomena in energy storage systems offers an opportunity to introduce a new generation of batteries with quantum-enhanced performance. Until now, the quantum battery has largely remained a theoretical concept, with…

Device-independent quantum secret sharing (DI-QSS) provides high security by eliminating the need to trust devices, yet its practical performance is limited by channel loss and noise. This work extends advantage distillation from two-party…

Entanglement distillation, an essential quantum information processing task, refers to the conversion from multiple copies of noisy entangled states to a smaller number of highly entangled states. In this work, we study the non-asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Kun Fang , Xin Wang , Marco Tomamichel , Runyao Duan

Accessing quantum advantage (QA) is a legitimate task in energy harvesting devices, and it is potentially reshaping thermodynamic concepts. In this respect, the resourceful quantum non-Gaussian (QNG) states are promising candidates that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Kingshuk Adhikary

We investigate the charging dynamics of a frequency-modulated quantum battery (QB) placed within a dissipative cavity environment. Our study focuses on the interaction of such a battery under both weak and strong coupling regimes, employing…

As a quantum thermodynamic device that utilizes quantum systems for energy storage and delivery, the quantum battery (QB) is expected to offer revolutionary advantages in terms of increasing the charging power and the extractable work by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Wan-Lu Song , Ji-Ling Wang , Bin Zhou , Wan-Li Yang , Jun-Hong An

We investigate the optimal charging processes for several models of quantum batteries, finding how to maximize the energy stored in a given battery with a finite-time modulation of a set of external fields. We approach the problem using…

Quantum batteries, as highly efficient energy storage devices, have garnered significant research interest. A key challenge in their development is to maximize the extractable energy (ergotropy) when operating within a finite-temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Y. Yao , X. Q. Shao

When a Dirac quantum state interacts with an applied electric field the energy of the quantum state changes. It is generally assumed that there is a maximum limit on the amount of energy that can be extracted from a Dirac quantum state, due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Solomon

Quantum batteries represent one of the most promising applications of quantum thermodynamics, whose goal is not only to store energy inside small quantum systems but also to potentially leverage genuine quantum effects to outperform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Davide Rinaldi , Radim Filip , Dario Gerace , Giacomo Guarnieri

To take quantum advantage of collective effects in many-body system, we design an elementary block for building multipartite quantum battery, which enables charging an atomic ensemble with optimal numbers in a common thermal bath. One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Tian-Ran Yang , Yu-Yu Zhang , Hui Dong , Libin Fu , Xiaoguang Wang

Quantum-enhanced metrology can be achieved by entangling a probe with an auxiliary system, passing the probe through an interferometer, and subsequently making measurements on both the probe and auxiliary system. Conceptually, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Simon A. Haine , Stuart S. Szigeti

We introduce and study the task of assisted coherence distillation. This task arises naturally in bipartite systems where both parties work together to generate the maximal possible coherence on one of the subsystems. Only incoherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 E. Chitambar , A. Streltsov , S. Rana , M. N. Bera , G. Adesso , M. Lewenstein

Precision, robustness, and efficiency are crucial aspects in the design of quantum technologies. Here, we show how genuine quantum features, together with non-Gaussianity, can be the key elements to achieve the best of these three aspects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Davide Rinaldi , Radim Filip , Dario Gerace , Giacomo Guarnieri

Quantum coherence -- an indispensable resource for quantum technologies -- is known to be distillable from a noisy form using operations that cannot create it. However, distillation exacts a hidden coherent measurement cost, which has not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Varun Narasimhachar

The goal of entanglement distillation is to turn a large number of weakly entangled states into a smaller number of highly entangled ones. Practical entanglement distillation schemes offer a tradeoff between the fidelity to the target…

A quantum battery is a work reservoir that stores energy in quantum degrees of freedom. When immersed in an environment an open quantum battery needs to be stabilized against free energy leakage into the environment. For this purpose we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Stefano Gherardini , Francesco Campaioli , Filippo Caruso , Felix C. Binder