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The quantum random number generation based on laser phase noise, which is featured with high generation rate and ease for photonic integration, has been extensively investigated and demonstrated. Despite these advancements, a theoretical…

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On noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, expectation values of many observables are obtained through sampling-based approximations to trace-like quantities. A central limitation of this approach is destructive cancellation under…

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We demonstrate the possibility of a genuine quantum advantage in the efficiency of quantum batteries by analyzing a model that enables a consistent comparison between quantum and classical regimes. Our system consists of $N$ harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 F. Cavaliere , D. Ferraro , M. Carrega , G. Benenti , M. Sassetti

Ground state energy estimation in physical, chemical, and materials sciences is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. In this work, we introduce a new hybrid approach that finds the eigenenergies by collecting…

Non-equilibrium electronic quantum transport is crucial for the operation of existing and envisioned electronic, optoelectronic, and spintronic devices. The ultimate goal of encompassing atomistic to mesoscopic length scales in the same…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Saurabh Sawant , François Léonard , Zhi Yao , Andrew Nonaka

We explore the extraction of energy from a rotating black hole spacetime modified by a quantum correction parameter \( \alpha \). Focusing on particle splitting within the ergoregion, we analyze the Penrose process and compute the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Urooj Fatima , G. Abbas

"A battery powers a device" can be read as "work stored in the battery is being transported to the device." In quantum batteries, the total amount of stored work can be measured by ergotropy, which is the maximal work extractable by unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Rick P. A. Simon , Janet Anders , Karen V. Hovhannisyan

Many-body localization is a dynamical phenomenon characteristic of strongly interacting and disordered many-body quantum systems which fail to achieve thermal equilibrium. From a quantum information perspective, the fingerprint of this…

Spin squeezing is a powerful resource for quantum metrology, and recent hardware platforms based on interacting qubits provide multiple possible architectures to generate and reverse squeezing during a sensing protocol. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Nickholas Gutierrez , Rodrigo Araiza Bravo , Susanne Yelin

Evaluating the maximum amount of work extractable from a nanoscale quantum system is one of the central problems in quantum thermodynamics. Previous works identified the free energy of the input state as the optimal rate of extractable work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Kaito Watanabe , Ryuji Takagi

Entanglement entropy is one of the most prominent measures in quantum physics. We show that it has an interesting ergotropic interpretation in terms of unitarily extracted work. It determines how much energy one can extract from a source of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Dominik Šafránek

Quantum phase estimation is at the heart of most quantum algorithms with exponential speedup. In this letter we demonstrate how to utilize it to compute the dynamical response functions of many-body quantum systems. Specifically, we design…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Dries Sels , Eugene Demler

Feedback-driven quantum reservoir computing has so far been studied primarily in gate-based architectures, motivating alternative scalable, hardware-friendly physical platforms. Here we investigate a linear-optical quantum reservoir…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Çağın Ekici

Quantifying the ergotropy (a.k.a. available energy), namely the maximal amount of energy that can be extracted from a thermally isolated system, is a central problem in quantum thermodynamics. Notably, the same problem has been long studied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Michele Campisi

The maximum unitarily extractable work from a quantum system -- ergotropy -- is the basic principle behind quantum batteries, a rapidly emerging field. This work studies ergotropy in two quantum chaotic systems, the quantum kicked top and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Sreeram PG , J. Bharathi Kannan , S. Harshini Tekur , M. S. Santhanam

Quantum error mitigation is expected to play a crucial role in the practical applications of quantum machines for the foreseeable future. Thus it is important to put the numerous quantum error mitigation schemes proposed under a coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Zhenyu Cai

Efficient approaches to quantum control and feedback are essential for quantum technologies, from sensing to quantum computation. Open-loop control tasks have been successfully solved using optimization techniques, including methods like…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Riccardo Porotti , Vittorio Peano , Florian Marquardt

We show that the maximum extractable work (ergotropy) from a quantum many-body system is constrained by local athermality of an initial state and local entropy decrease brought about by quantum operations. The obtained universal upper bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Akihiro Hokkyo , Masahito Ueda

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) is a promising quantum algorithm for obtaining molecular ground-state energies with chemical accuracy. However, its computational cost, dominated by the Hamiltonian 1-norm $\lambda$ and the cost of the block…