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We propose a simple protocol exploiting the thermalization of a $\textit{storage}$ bipartite system $S$ to extract work from a $\textit{resource}$ system $R$. The protocol is based on a recent work definition involving only a single bath. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Nicolò Piccione , Benedetto Militello , Anna Napoli , Bruno Bellomo

We investigate ergotropy dynamics in a graphene-based quantum battery modeled as a four-level spin--valley system under different dissipative environments. The battery is charged via a Gaussian pulse and subsequently evolves under amplitude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Disha Verma , Indrajith VS , R. Sankaranarayanan

In this work, we investigate the amount of energy that can be extracted or charged through unitary operations when only minimal information about the state is known. Assuming knowledge of only the mean energy of the state, we start by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Andrea Canzio , Vasco Cavina , Roberto Menta , Vittorio Giovannetti

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 reduced state of a small system strongly coupled to a thermal bath may be athermal and used as a small battery once disconnected. If the disconnecting process is too slow, the coupling between the battery and the bath weakens, and at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Daniel Feliú , Felipe Barra

We investigate the performance of a novel model based on a one-dimensional (1D) spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg $XY-\Gamma(\gamma)$ quantum chain, also known as 1D Kitaev chain, as a working medium for a quantum battery (QB) in both closed and open…

In realistic open-system environments, decoherence and dissipation naturally drive quantum batteries toward passive states, thereby limiting their maximum extractable work (ergotropy). While quantum catalysis has been proposed to mitigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Shun-Cai Zhao

Extracting work from quantum system is one of the important areas in quantum thermodynamics. As a significant thermodynamic quantity, the ergotropy gap characterizes the difference between the global and local maximum extractable works. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Ya-Juan Wu , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang , Ke Wu

We investigate the nonequilibrium steady state of the anisotropic open quantum Rabi model, which exhibits first-order and second-order dissipative phase transitions upon varying the degree of anisotropy between the coupling strengths of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 Guitao Lyu , Korbinian Kottmann , Martin B. Plenio , Myung-Joong Hwang

The open quantum Rabi model is studied in this work, with the explicit $\mathbf{A}^{2}$ term incorporated. It is shown that anisotropy provides a generic and robust mechanism for establishing a genuine platform for observing dissipative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Jun-Ling Wang , Yi-bo Liu , Qing-Hu Chen

We investigate the performance of the charger-mediated quantum battery modeled by a two-qubit system. One of the qubits acts as the battery and the other acts as the charger which is subjected to a reservoir. We derived the time-local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Yu Wang , Jiasen Jin

In an article by Garc\'ia-Pintos et al. [Rev. Lett. 125, 040601 (2020)] the connection between the charging power of a quantum battery and the fluctuations of a "free energy operator" whose expectation value characterizes the maximum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 Shang-Yung Wang

We consider how charging performances of a quantum battery, modeled as a two-level system, are influenced by the presence of vacuum fluctuations of a quantum field satisfying the Dirichlet, transparent, and Neumann boundary conditions in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-13 Zehua Tian , Xiaobao Liu , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing

Considering the emerging applications of quantum technologies, studying energy storage and usage at the quantum level is of great interest. In this context, there is a significant contemporary interest in studying ergotropy, the maximum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Jitendra Joshi , T. S Mahesh

We study the connection between the charging power of quantum batteries and the fluctuations of the extractable work. We prove that in order to have a non-zero rate of change of the extractable work, the state $\rho_\mathcal{W}$ of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 Luis Pedro García-Pintos , Alioscia Hamma , Adolfo del Campo

Energy extraction is a central task in thermodynamics. In quantum physics, ergotropy measures the amount of work extractable under cyclic Hamiltonian control. As its full extraction requires perfect knowledge of the initial state, however,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Dominik Šafránek , Dario Rosa , Felix Binder

Recent experiments have demonstrated the generation of coherent mechanical oscillations in a suspended carbon nanotube, which are driven by an electric current through the device above a certain voltage threshold, in close analogy with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Oisin Culhane , Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold

We introduce a cyclic quantum battery model, based on an interacting bipartite system, weakly coupled to a thermal bath. The working cycle of the battery consists of four strokes: system thermalization, disconnection of subsystems,…

An approach, differing from two commonly used methods (the stochastic \SE \ and the master equation \cite {Schlosshauer,BieleA}) but entrenched in the traditional density matrix formalism, is developed in a semi-classical setting, so as to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-11 Robert Englman , Asher Yahalom

The second law of thermodynamics uses change in free energy of macroscopic systems to set a bound on performed work. Ergotropy plays a similar role in microscopic scenarios, and is defined as the maximum amount of energy that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Tanmoy Biswas , Marcin Łobejko , Paweł Mazurek , Konrad Jałowiecki , Michał Horodecki