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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

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

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

Constraints on work extraction are fundamental to our operational understanding of the thermodynamics of both classical and quantum systems. In the quantum setting, finite-time control operations typically generate coherence in the…

Work extraction is one of the most central processes in quantum thermodynamics. However, the prior analysis of optimal extractable work has been restricted to a limited operational scenario where complete information about the initial state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Kaito Watanabe , Ryuji Takagi

Ergotropy, as a measure for extractable work from a quantum system, has garnered significant attention due to its relevance in quantum thermodynamics and information processing. In this work, the dynamics of ergotropy will be investigated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Maryam Hadipour , Soroush Haseli

Ergotropy, the maximum work extractable from a quantum system, is a central resource in quantum physics. Computing ergotropy is well established when the system state is fully known, but its estimation under partial information remains an…

The presence of correlations in the input state of a non-interacting many-body quantum system can lead to an increase in the amount of work we can extract from it under global unitary processes (ergotropy). The present work explore such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Raffaele Salvia , Vittorio Giovannetti

A key concept in quantum thermodynamics is extractable work, which specifies the maximum amount of work that can be extracted from a quantum system. Different quantities are used to measure extractable work, the most prevalent of which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Amin Mohammadi , Afshin Shafiee

Ergotropy is defined as the maximum amount of work that can be extracted through a unitary cyclic evolution. It plays a crucial role in assessing the work capacity of a quantum system. Recently, the significance of quantum coherence in work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Zhibo Niu , Yang Wu , Yunhan Wang , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

Quantum thermodynamics can be naturally phrased as a theory of quantum state transformation and energy exchange for small-scale quantum systems undergoing thermodynamical processes, thereby making the resource theoretical approach very well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Uttam Singh , Jarosław K. Korbicz , Nicolas J. Cerf

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 consider the task of extracting work from quantum systems in the resource theory perspective of thermodynamics, where free states are arbitrary thermal states, and allowed operations are energy conserving unitary transformations. Taking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Paul Skrzypczyk , Anthony J. Short , Sandu Popescu

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

The possibility of extracting more work from a physical system thanks to the information obtained from measurements has been a topic of fundamental interest in the context of thermodynamics since the formulation of the Maxwell's demon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Seyed Navid Elyasi , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Marco G. Genoni

We investigate the problem of work extraction from a cavity-based quantum battery that is remotely charged via a transmission line composed of an array of coupled single-mode cavities. For uniform coupling along the line, we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 I. Beder , D. Ferraro , P. A. Brandão

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 paradigm of extracting work from isolated quantum system through a cyclic Hamiltonian process is a topic of immense research interest. The optimal work extracted under such process is termed as ergotropy [Europhys. Lett., 67 (4),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Amit Mukherjee , Arup Roy , Some Sankar Bhattacharya , Manik Banik

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 consider a quasi-probability distribution of work for an isolated quantum system coupled to the energy-storage device given by the ideal weight. Specifically, we analyze a trade-off between changes in average energy and changes in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Marcin Łobejko
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