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Quantum battery (QB) is a conceptually new energy storage and conversion device, which consists usually of a quantum charger and an energy store (called usually as the QB for simplicity). The demonstrated advantage of QB, over its classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Y. F. Li , S. R. He , P. H. Ouyang , X. N. Feng , L. F. Wei

We study the charging process of open quantum batteries mediated by a common dissipative environment in two different scenarios. In the first case, we consider a quantum charger-battery model in the presence of a non-Markovian environment.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 F. T. Tabesh , F. H. Kamin , S. Salimi

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

Quantum nonlocality offers a secure way to produce random numbers: their unpredictability is intrinsic and can be certified just by observing the statistic of the measurement outcomes, without assumptions on how they are produced. To do…

The quantum efficiency, which characterizes the quality of information gain against information loss, is an important figure of merit for any realistic quantum detectors in the gradual process of collapsing the state being measured. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Yin Ye , Jing Ping , HuJun Jiao , Shu-Shen Li , Xin-Qi Li

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

Quantum batteries (QBs) provide a platform for exploring quantum-scale energy storage, yet most existing analyses rely on weak-coupling and Markovian approximations. In realistic implementations operating in strongly coupled non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Zi-Yi Peng , Shun-Cai Zhao , Liang Luo , Ni-Ya Zhuang

Time-continuous quantum error correction, necessary to protect quantum information under time-dependent Hamiltonians, relies on weak continuous syndrome measurements. Implementing these measurements requires a continuous coupling among at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Anton Halaski , Christiane P. Koch

Continuous weak measurement allows localizing open quantum systems in state space, and tracing out their quantum trajectory as they evolve in time. Efficient quantum measurement schemes have previously enabled recording quantum trajectories…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Massimiliano Rossi , David Mason , Junxin Chen , Albert Schliesser

We study the charging performance of a one-dimensional, many-body bosonic quantum battery driven by a harmonic-oscillator charger, focusing on how many-body effects and intra-species interactions influence the energy-transfer dynamics. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Duc Tuan Hoang , Thomas Busch , Thomás Fogarty

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

Since entanglement is not an observable per se, measuring its value in practice is a difficult task. Here we propose a protocol for quantifying a particular entanglement measure, namely concurrence, of an arbitrary two-qubit pure state via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Mikko Tukiainen , Hirokazu Kobayashi , Yutaka Shikano

Quantum batteries, as highly efficient energy storage devices, have garnered significant research interest. A key challenge in their development is to maximize the extractable energy (ergotropy) when operating within a finite-temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Y. Yao , X. Q. Shao

Understanding the energy cost of quantum measurement process and its connection to the measurement performance faces the challenge of modeling the objectification process. The latter, turns the measurement result into an objective fact,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Lorena Ballesteros Ferraz , Cyril Elouard

We propose a protocol for a controlled experiment to measure a weak value of the electron's spin in a solid state device. The weak value is obtained by a two step procedure -- weak measurement followed by a strong one (post-selection),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen , Yaroslav M. Blanter

In this paper, we propose a scheme to enhance trapping of entanglement of two qubits in the environment of a photonic band gap material. Our entanglement trapping promotion scheme makes use of combined weak measurements and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 Ying-Jie Zhang , Wei Han , Heng Fan , Yun-Jie Xia

We demonstrate a fast, robust and non-destructive protocol for quantum state estimation based on continuous weak measurement in the presence of a controlled dynamical evolution. Our experiment uses optically probed atomic spins as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Greg A. Smith , Andrew Silberfarb , Ivan H. Deutsch , Poul S. Jessen

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

We investigate the spin-boson model's dynamical and thermodynamic features in the weak coupling regime using the weak coupling spin-boson (WCSB) and phase covariant (PC) master equations. Both unital (pure dephasing) and non-unital…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Mahima Yadav , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

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