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Energy transport can reveal information about interacting many-body systems beyond other transport probes. In particular, in one dimension it has been shown that the energy current is directly proportional to the central charge, thus…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-27 Sonja Fischer , Christoph Karrasch , Dirk Schuricht , Lars Fritz

We consider reversible work extraction from identical quantum batteries. From an ensemble of individually passive states, work can be produced only via global unitary (and thus entangling) operations. However, we show here that there always…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Marcus Huber , Antonio Acín

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…

Continuous-variable quantum thermodynamics in the Gaussian regime provides a promising framework for investigating the energetic role of quantum correlations, particularly in optical systems. In this work, we introduce an entropy-free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Beatriz Polo-Rodríguez , Federico Centrone , Gerardo Adesso , Mir Alimuddin

A subsystem of an entangled ground state is in a mixed state. Thus, if we isolate this subsystem from its surroundings we may be able to extract work applying unitary transformations, up to a maximal amount which is called ergotropy. Once…

Nonstabilizerness plays an essential role in an efficient simulation of quantum systems on quantum computers. In this work, we investigate its role in the context of quantum batteries (QBs). To this end, we consider a system of N spin-1/2…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Tanoy Kanti Konar , Jakub Zakrzewski

The amount of extractable work from a physical system is fundamentally connected to the information available about its state, as illustrated by Maxwell's demon and the Gibbs paradox. In standard thermodynamic protocols involving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Tanmoy Biswas

The quantum battery capacity is introduced in this letter as a figure of merit that expresses the potential of a quantum system to store and supply energy. It is defined as the difference between the highest and the lowest energy that can…

A repeated interaction process assisted by auxiliary thermal systems charges a quantum battery. The charging energy is supplied by switching on and off the interaction between the battery and the thermal systems. The charged state is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Felipe Barra

We propose novel charging protocols for quantum batteries based on quantum superpositions of trajectories. Specifically, we consider that a qubit (the battery) interacts with multiple cavities or a single cavity at various positions, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Po-Rong Lai , Jhen-Dong Lin , Yi-Te Huang , Yueh-Nan Chen

Thermodynamics teaches that if a system initially off-equilibrium is coupled to work sources, the maximum work that it may yield is governed by its energy and entropy. For finite systems this bound is usually not reachable. The maximum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. E. Allahverdyan , R. Balian , Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

Work extraction in quantum finite systems is an important issue in quantum thermodynamics. The optimal work extracted is called ergotropy, and it is achieved by maximizing the average work extracted over all the unitary cycles. However, an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Gianluca Francica , Luca Dell'Anna

We introduce a cavity-coupled finite quantum system which can act as a quantum battery by harnessing noise induced coherences. We apply the methodology of full counting statistics to capture higher-order fluctuations of quanta exchange in…

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

A battery is a work storage device, i.e. a device that stores energy in the form of work for later use by other devices. In this work, we study the realization of a quantum battery in a double quantum dot in series, charged by two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Oscar Bohorquez

We investigate how an external driving field can control the amount of extractable work from a quantum emitter, a two-level quantum system (TLS) interacting with a photonic environment. In this scenario, the TLS functions as a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Paulson Kavalambramalil George , Hanna Terletska , Herbert F Fotso

The quantum ergotropy quantifies the maximal amount of work that can be extracted from a quantum state without changing its entropy. Given that the ergotropy can be expressed as the difference of quantum and classical relative entropies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 Akira Sone , Sebastian Deffner

The concept of ergotropy was previously introduced as the maximum extractable work from a quantum state. Its enhancement, which is induced by quantum correlation via projective measurement, was formulated as the daemonic ergotropy. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Mohammad Ali Balkanlu , Esfandyar Faizi , Bahram Ahansaz

We investigate the connection between quantum resources and extractable work in quantum batteries. We demonstrate that quantum coherence in the battery or the battery-charger entanglement is a necessary resource for generating nonzero…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Hai-Long Shi , Shu Ding , Qing-Kun Wan , Xiao-Hui Wang , Wen-Li Yang

The maximum work that can be extracted from a quantum battery is bounded by the ergotropy of the system, which is determined by the spectral properties of the Hamiltonian. In this paper, we employ the formalism of quantum walks to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Simone Cavazzoni , Giovanni Ragazzi , Paolo Bordone , Matteo G. A. Paris