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We study the optimal performance of an endoreversible quantum dot heat engine, in which the heat transfer between the system and baths is mediated by qubits, operating under the conditions of a trade-off objective function known as maximum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Kirandeep Kaur , Anmol Jain , Love Sahajbir Singh , Rakesh Singla , Shishram Rebari

We consider the task of extracting work from quantum systems in the resource theory perspective of thermodynamics, where free states are arbitrary thermal states, and allowed operations are energy conserving unitary transformations. Taking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Paul Skrzypczyk , Anthony J. Short , Sandu Popescu

We study the effect of non-Markovianity in the charging process of an open-system quantum battery. We employ a collisional model framework, where the environment is described by a discrete set of ancillary systems and memory effects in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Daniele Morrone , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Andrea Smirne , Marco G. Genoni

This study investigates the performance and ergotropy protection of open collective quantum batteries subject to superradiant decay. By employing a passive spectral detuning strategy within an intermediate cavity, an optimal detuning value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Tariq Zeyad Jawad

We study the role of the initial quantum coherence in coherent processes generated by an external control of some parameters by looking on the thermodynamic work done. We start by taking in exam an active state and we isolate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Gianluca Francica

The fluctuation-dissipation relation for the classical definition of work is extended to thermally isolated systems, in classical and quantum realms. From this, the optimal work variance is calculated, showing it achieves its minimum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-01 Pierre Nazé

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…

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 analyze work extraction protocols using the long-lived quantum coherence of a three-level quantum system, which is coupled to a thermal bath through dipole-monopole interactions. We identify situations where persistent quantum coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Wenjing Chen , Si-Wei Han , Xiaoshan Feng , Jun Feng

Standard treatments of quantum work using projective energy measurements erase initial coherence and alter the dynamics, thereby failing to capture the thermodynamic effects of coherent superpositions of energy eigenstates in an ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Pranay Nayak , Sreenath K. Manikandan , Tan Van Vu , Supriya Krishnamurthy

We reconsider the quantum energetics and quantum thermodynamics of the charging process of a simple, two-component quantum battery model made up of a charger qubit and a single--cell battery qubit. We allow for the initial quantum state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

We consider quantum batteries given by composite interacting quantum systems in terms of the thermodynamic work cost of local random unitary processes. We characterize quantum correlations by monitoring the average energy change and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Satoya Imai , Otfried Gühne , Stefan Nimmrichter

A generalized collision model is developed to investigate coherent charging a single quantum battery by repeated interactions with many-atom large spins, where collective atom operators are adopted and the battery is modeled by a uniform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 P. Chen , T. S. Yin , Z. Q. Jiang , G. R. Jin

We revisit the classic thermodynamic problem of maximum work extraction from two arbitrary sized hot and cold reservoirs, modelled as perfect gases. Assuming ignorance about the extent to which the process has advanced, which implies an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ramandeep S. Johal

Quantum cycles in established heat engines can be modeled with various quantum systems as working substances. For example, a heat engine can be modeled with an infinite potential well as the working substance to determine the efficiency and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Pritam Chattopadhyay , Ayan Mitra , Goutam Paul , Vasilios Zarikas

With intensive studies of quantum thermodynamics, quantum batteries (QBs) have been proposed to store and transfer energy via quantum effects. Despite many theoretical models, decoherence remains a severe challenge and practical platforms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Jin-Tian Zhang , Shuang-Quan Ma , Jing-Yi-Ran Jin , Tao Liu , Qing Ai

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

Quantum batteries (QBs) provide a platform for exploring quantum-scale energy storage, yet most existing analyses rely on weak-coupling and Markovian approximations. In realistic implementations operating in strongly coupled non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Zi-Yi Peng , Shun-Cai Zhao , Liang Luo , Ni-Ya Zhuang

Recent years have seen an enormously revived interest in the study of thermodynamic notions in the quantum regime. This applies both to the study of notions of work extraction in thermal machines in the quantum regime, as well as to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 M. Perarnau-Llobet , A. Riera , R. Gallego , H. Wilming , J. Eisert

We show that frequent nondemolition measurements of a quantum system immersed in a thermal bath allow the extraction of work in a closed cycle from the system-bath interaction (correlation) energy, a hitherto unexploited work resource. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-19 David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky , Noam Erez , Robert Alicki , Gershon Kurizki