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Achieving rapid and stable energy storage in quantum batteries (QBs) remains a key challenge, particularly under strong system-environment coupling where non-Markovian effects become prominent. While most previous studies focus on weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Shun-Cai Zhao , Yi-Fan Yang , Ni-Ya Zhuang

A quantum system which can store energy, and from which one can extract useful work, is known as a quantum battery. Such a device raises interesting issues surrounding how quantum physics can provide certain advantages in the charging,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

We present two applications of emergent local Hamiltonians to speed up quantum adiabatic protocols for isolated noninteracting and weakly interacting fermionic systems in one-dimensional lattices. We demonstrate how to extract maximal work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-31 Ranjan Modak , Lev Vidmar , Marcos Rigol

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

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

Dissipative phase transitions (DPTs) are traditionally characterized through the spectral properties of a time-independent Liouvillian superoperator. However, this definition cannot be applied to time-periodic (Floquet) systems that cannot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Alberto Mercurio , Vincenzo Macrì , Filippo Ferrari , Lorenzo Fioroni , Vincenzo Savona

Quantum batteries (QBs) have emerged as a promising route for fast energy storage and on-chip power supply in quantum devices. Given the limited analytical understanding of open Floquet QBs, we employ the kicked-Ising model as a tractable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Sebastián V. Romero , Xi Chen , Yue Ban

We study the energy transfer process in the recently proposed sunburst quantum Ising model, which consists of two interacting integrable systems: a transverse Ising chain with a very small transverse field and a finite number of external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Akash Mitra , Shashi C. L. Srivastava

We investigate the universally non-equilibrium dynamics of superradiant phase transition in the anisotropic quantum Rabi model. By introducing position and momentum operators, we obtain the ground states and their excitation gaps for both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Xunda Jiang , Bo Lu , Chengyin Han , Ruihuan Fang , Minhua Zhao , Zhu Ma , Tian Guo , Chaohong Lee

One of the most important devices emerging from quantum technology are quantum batteries. However, self-discharging, the process of charge wasting of quantum batteries due to decoherence phenomenon, limits their performance, measured by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Mohammad B. Arjmandi , Hamidreza Mohammadi , Alan C. Santos

We analyze the performance of a quantum battery in terms of energy storage and energy extraction, assisted by nonlinearities in a Dicke quantum battery utilizing an open-system approach. In particular, we consider two types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Aparajita Bhattacharyya , Pratha Dongre , Ujjwal Sen

Anomalous thermal relaxation is ubiquitous in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. An emblematic example of this is the Mpemba effect, where an initially ``hot'' system cools faster than an initially ``cooler'' one. This effect has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Ivan Medina , Oisín Culhane , Felix C. Binder , Gabriel T. Landi , John Goold

We consider the phase-transition-like behaviour in the Rabi model containing a single two-level system, or qubit, and a single harmonic oscillator. The system experiences a sudden transition from an uncorrelated state to an increasingly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-30 S. Ashhab

Within quantum thermodynamics, many tasks are modelled by processes that require work sources represented by out-of-equilibrium quantum systems, often dubbed quantum batteries, in which work can be deposited or from which work can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Pharnam Bakhshinezhad , Beniamin R. Jablonski , Felix C. Binder , Nicolai Friis

The problem of Rabi oscillations in a qubit coupled to a fluctuator and in contact with a heath bath is considered. A scheme is developed for taking into account both phase and energy relaxation in a phenomenological way, while taking full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. M. Galperin , D. V. Shantsev , J. Bergli , B. L. Altshuler

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 investigate the role of spatial geometry in controlling energy storage and work extraction in a non-Markovian quantum battery. The model consists of two identical two-level systems embedded in a structured waveguide environment, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Maryam Hadipour , Soroush Haseli

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

This paper investigates a coupled two-qubits heat engine fueled by generalized measurements of the spin components and using a single heat reservoir as sink. Our model extends the proposal of Yi and coworkers [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 96}, 022108…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Sidhant Jakhar , Ramandeep S. Johal

In the ultrastrong-coupling regime, the quantum Rabi model can exhibit quantum phase transition (QPT) when the ratio of the qubit transition frequency to the frequency of the cavity field approaches infinity. However, it is challenging to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Xuan Xie , Cheng Liu , Lin-Lin Jiang , Jin-Feng Huang