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Quantum energy teleportation (QET) is a process that leverages quantum entanglement and local operations to transfer energy between two spatially separated locations without physically transporting particles or energy carriers. We construct…

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Understanding how the effectiveness of natural photosynthetic energy harvesting systems arises from the interplay between quantum coherence and environmental noise represents a significant challenge for quantum theory. Recently it has begun…

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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

The extraction of energy is one of fundamental challenges in realizing quantum batteries (QBs). Here, we propose two wireless transfer schemes with parity-time symmetries to efficiently extract the energy stored in non-Hermitian QBs to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Fang-Mei Yang , Fu-Quan Dou

In recent years many works have explored possible advantages of indefinite causal order, with the main focus on its controlled implementation known as quantum switch. In this paper, we tackle advantages in quantum thermodynamics, studying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Otavio A. D. Molitor , Łukasz Rudnicki

Quantum Energy Teleportation (QET) is a novel method that leverages quantum entanglement to transfer energy between two distant locations without any physical movement of the energy. The first realization of QET on superconducting hardware,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Md Shoyib Hassan , Syed Emad Uddin Shubha , M. R. C Mahdy

Quantum state transport is an important way to study the energy or information flow. By combining the unconventional Rydberg pumping mechanism and the diagonal form of van der Waals interactions, we construct a theoretical model via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 X. X. Li , J. B. You , X. Q. Shao , Weibin Li

Thermodynamics is traditionally concerned with systems comprised of a large number of particles. Here we present a framework for extending thermodynamics to individual quantum systems, including explicitly a thermal bath and work-storage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-29 Paul Skrzypczyk , Anthony J. Short , Sandu Popescu

How to generate provably true randomness with minimal assumptions? This question is important not only for the efficiency and the security of information processing, but also for understanding how extremely unpredictable events are possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Kai-Min Chung , Yaoyun Shi , Xiaodi Wu

We discuss the problem of the information transfer (exchange of states configuration) between two interacting quantum systems along their evolution in time. We consider the specific case of two modes of the electromagnetic field with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. C. de Oliveira , S. S. Mizrahi , V. V. Dodonov

The ideas of thermodynamics have proved fruitful in the setting of quantum information theory, in particular the notion that when the allowed transformations of a system are restricted, certain states of the system become useful resources…

Quantum systems can be controlled by other quantum systems in a reversible way, without any information leaking to the outside of the system-controller compound. Such coherent quantum control is deterministic, is less noisy than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Thomas Konrad , Amy Rouillard , Michael Kastner , Hermann Uys

The destruction of quantum coherence can pump energy into a system. For our examples this is paradoxical since the destroyed correlations are ordinarily considered negligible. Mathematically the explanation is straightforward and physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-08 L. S. Schulman , B. Gaveau

We investigate the impact of non-unique decompositions of mixed states on energy transfer. Mixed states generally have non-unique decompositions into pure states in quantum theory and, by definition, in other non-classical probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Zihan Wang , Fei Meng , Oscar Dahlsten

Randomness is an indispensable resource in modern science and information technology. Fortunately, an experimentally simple procedure exists to generate randomness with well-characterized devices: measuring a quantum system in a basis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Le Phuc Thinh , Jean-Daniel Bancal , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

Quantum coherence is an essential resource to gain advantage over classical physics and technology. Recently, it has been proposed that a low-temperature environment can induce quantum coherence of a spin without an external coherent pump.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Artur Slobodeniuk , Tomáš Novotný , Radim Filip

Quantum batteries can be charged by performing a work ``instantaneously'' in the limit of a large number of cells, achieving a so-called quantum advantage. In general, the work exhibits statistics that can be represented by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Gianluca Francica

We have observed the coherent exchange of a single energy quantum between a flux qubit and a superconducting LC circuit acting as a quantum harmonic oscillator. The exchange of an energy quantum is known as the vacuum Rabi oscillations: the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Johansson , S. Saito , T. Meno , H. Nakano , M. Ueda , K. Semba , H. Takayanagi

Measurements of quantum systems can be used to generate classical data that is truly unpredictable for every observer. However, this true randomness needs to be discriminated from randomness due to ignorance or lack of control of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Felix Bischof , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

Quantum coherence is one of the fundamental aspects distinguishing classical and quantum theories. Coherence between different energy eigenstates is particularly important, as it serves as a valuable resource under the law of energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Naoto Shiraishi , Ryuji Takagi