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We explore a protocol that efficiently charges multiple open quantum batteries in parallel using a single charger. This protocol shows super-extensive charging through collective coupling of the charger and the battery to the same thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Josephine Dias , Hui Wang , Kae Nemoto , Franco Nori , William J. Munro

Quantum batteries utilize nonclassical resources to achieve charging speed and energy storage performances that surpass classical thermodynamic limits. However, the practical realization of quantum batteries is often constrained by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Fan Yang , Hui Wang , Yusef Maleki , William J. Munro , Girish S. Agarwal , Marlan O. Scully

We present a collision model for the charging of a quantum battery by identical nonequilibrium qubit units. When the units are prepared in a mixture of energy eigenstates, the energy gain in the battery can be described by a classical…

Quantum batteries are quantum systems used to store energy to be later extracted by an external agent in the form of work to perform some task. Here we study the charging of a hybrid quantum battery via a collisional model mediated by an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yohan Vianna de Almeida , Tiago F. F. Santos , Marcelo F. Santos

Remote quantum batteries require directional and controllable energy transfer between spatially separated quantum nodes, yet most existing protocols rely on direct charger-battery Hamiltonian couplings. Here we propose a phase-tunable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Meixi Guo , Jian Huang , Rui-Yang Gong , Xian-Li Yin , Guofeng Zhang

Quantum batteries are quantum systems that store energy which can then be used for quantum tasks. One relevant question about such systems concerns the differences and eventual advantages over their classical counterparts, whether in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Tiago F. F. Santos , Yohan Vianna de Almeida , Marcelo F. Santos

Enhancement of quantum battery performance is a popular subject in quantum thermodynamics. An interesting phenomenon is the quick charging effect [Phys. Rev. Res. 6, 023136 (2024)], which has been explored by utilizing a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Po-Rong Lai , Hsien-Chao Jan , Jhen-Dong Lin , Yueh-Nan Chen

In this work, we investigate autonomous charging of a quantum battery coupled to a structured reservoir composed of two qubits, each locally coupled to its own bosonic thermal bath. Moreover, the reservoir interacts with a charger-battery…

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

We investigate electrical transport in a quantum wire of $N$ sites connected to an equal number $(N_i/2)$ of sources and drains of charges in bulk. Each source and drain injects and extracts charges at the same rate, respectively. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Rupak Bag , Dibyendu Roy

We present an analysis of the availability and maximum extractable work of quantum batteries in the presence of charge and/or heat steady-state currents. Quantum batteries are modelled as non-interacting open quantum systems (mesoscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 F. H. Kamin , Z. Abuali , H. Ness , S. Salimi

Nonreciprocal effects in nanoelectronic devices offer unique possibilities for manipulating electron transport and engineering quantum electronic circuits for information processing purposes. However, a lack of rigorous theoretical tools is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Junjie Liu , Dvira Segal

We studied the dynamics of entropic uncertainty in Markovian and non-Markovian systems during the charging of open quantum batteries (QBs) mediated by a common dissipation environment. In the non-Markovian regime, the battery is almost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Meng-Long Song , Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

Quantum batteries are energy storage devices built using quantum mechanical objects, which are developed with the aim of outperforming their classical counterparts. Proposing optimal designs of quantum batteries which are able to exploit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

We study a quantum battery made out of $N$ non-mutually interacting qubits coupled to a dissipative single electromagnetic field mode in a resonator. We quantify the charging energy, ergotropy, transfer rate, and power of the system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Javier Carrasco , Jerónimo R. Maze , Carla Hermann-Avigliano , Felipe Barra

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

Quantum nonreciprocity-a fundamental phenomenon enabling directional control of quantum states and photon correlations-has long been recognized as pivotal for quantum technologies. However, the experimental realization of nonreciprocal…

The realization of scalable quantum battery architectures requires concern not only with how much energy can be stored, but also with how energy is transported, distributed, and converted into extractable work across connected battery…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Bing-Bing Liu , Rui Chen , Jin-Lei Wu , Gang Chen , Shi-Lei Su

Attribute to their robustness against loss and external noise, nonreciprocal photonic devices hold great promise for applications in quantum information processing. Recent advancements have demonstrated that nonreciprocal optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Baijun Li , Yunlan Zuo , Le-Man Kuang , Hui Jing , Chaohong Lee

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…