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Quantum batteries utilize quantum effects to enhance energy storage and work extraction, offering promising avenues for nanoscale energy applications. However, environmental noise poses a significant challenge by degrading stored energy.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Vigneshwar B , Sankaranarayanan R

Quantum energy science is rapidly emerging as a domain interested in the generation, transfer and storage of energy at the quantum level. In particular, quantum batteries have the scope to exploit the wonders of quantum mechanics in order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

We study the influence of single-atom dissipation and dephasing noise on the performance of Dicke and Tavis-Cummings quantum batteries, where the electromagnetic field of the cavity hosting the system acts as a charger. For these models a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Andrea Canzio , Vasco Cavina , Marco Polini , Vittorio Giovannetti

Motivated by recent developments in the field of multilevel quantum batteries, we present the model of a quantum device for energy storage with anharmonic level spacing, based on a superconducting circuit in the transmon regime. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 N. Massa , F. Cavaliere , D. Ferraro

We propose a quantum harmonic oscillator measurement engine fueled by simultaneous quantum measurements of the non-commuting position and momentum quadratures of the quantum oscillator. The engine extracts work by moving the harmonic trap…

Quantum batteries are prone to loosing their stored charge, when interacting with a thermal environment. However, getting a limited assistance from the thermal environment, is it possible to recover the charge back, in a reusable form? Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Debanjan Dey Sarkar , Mallika Mondal , Preeti Parashar , Tamal Guha

Quantum batteries are anticipated to achieve significant advancements in energy storage capacity. In classical batteries, the energy density at each subsystem reaches its maximum value, denoted as $E_C$, which is determined by dividing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Masahiro Hotta , Kazuki Ikeda

Quantum hardware increasingly relies on energy reserves that can later be converted into useful work; yet, most battery-like proposals demand coherent drives or engineered non-equilibrium resources, limiting practicality in noisy settings.…

We propose a simple, robust protocol to prepare a low-energy state of an arbitrary Hamiltonian on a quantum computer or programmable quantum simulator. The protocol is inspired by the adiabatic demagnetization technique, used to cool…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Anne Matthies , Mark Rudner , Achim Rosch , Erez Berg

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

We investigate the open system dynamics of a micromaser quantum battery operating in the ultrastrong coupling (USC) regime under environmental dissipation. The battery consists of a single-mode electromagnetic cavity sequentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Maristella Crotti , Luca Razzoli , Luigi Giannelli , Giuseppe A. Falci , Giuliano Benenti

The paradigm of extracting work from isolated quantum system through a cyclic Hamiltonian process is a topic of immense research interest. The optimal work extracted under such process is termed as ergotropy [Europhys. Lett., 67 (4),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Amit Mukherjee , Arup Roy , Some Sankar Bhattacharya , Manik Banik

While the spatial arrangement of individual units is essential for the physical implementation of quantum batteries, geometry-dependent interactions are rarely explicitly incorporated into existing theoretical models. To address this, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yi-Fan Yang , Shun-Cai Zhao

Quantum thermodynamics is often formulated as a theory with constrained access to operations and resources. In this manuscript, we find a closed formula for the Gaussian ergotropy, i.e. the maximum energy that can be extracted from bosonic…

Operation of an atomtronic battery is demonstrated where a finite-temperature Bose-Einstein condensate stored in one half of a double-well potential is coupled to an initially empty load well that is impedance matched by a resonant…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Seth C. Caliga , Cameron J. E. Straatsma , Dana Z. Anderson

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

We investigate a two-qubit open Rabi model, focusing on local ergotropy--the maximum extractable work by acting solely on the two qubits--within a parameter regime where a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless dissipative phase transition occurs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 G. Di Bello , D. Farina , D. Jansen , C. A. Perroni , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis

We theoretically analyze the Photosystem II reaction center using a quantum master equation approach, where excitonic and charge-transfer rates are computed at the Redfield and F\"orster levels with realistic spectral densities. The focus…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Trishna Kalita , Manash Jyoti Sarmah , Javed Akhtar , Himangshu Prabal Goswami

We present a scheme for the charging of a quantum battery based on the dynamics of an open quantum system undergoing coherent quantum squeezing and affected by an incoherent squeezed thermal bath. We show that quantum coherence, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Federico Centrone , Luca Mancino , Mauro Paternostro

One of the most fundamental tasks in quantum thermodynamics is extracting energy from one system and subsequently storing this energy in an appropriate battery. Both of these steps, work extraction and charging, can be viewed as cyclic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Nicolai Friis , Marcus Huber