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The concept of ergotropy was previously introduced as the maximum extractable work from a quantum state. Its enhancement, which is induced by quantum correlation via projective measurement, was formulated as the daemonic ergotropy. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Mohammad Ali Balkanlu , Esfandyar Faizi , Bahram Ahansaz

The amount of work that can be extracted from a quantum system can be increased by exploiting the information obtained from a measurement performed on a correlated ancillary system. The concept of daemonic ergotropy has been introduced to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Daniele Morrone , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Marco G. Genoni

We investigate how an external driving field can control the amount of extractable work from a quantum emitter, a two-level quantum system (TLS) interacting with a photonic environment. In this scenario, the TLS functions as a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Paulson Kavalambramalil George , Hanna Terletska , Herbert F Fotso

Thermodynamics is traditionally concerned with systems comprised of a large number of particles. Here we present a framework for extending thermodynamics to individual quantum systems, including explicitly a thermal bath and work-storage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-29 Paul Skrzypczyk , Anthony J. Short , Sandu Popescu

Ergotropy provides a fundamental measure of the extractable work from a quantum system and, consequently, of the maximal useful energy, or charge, stored within it. Understanding how this quantity can be manipulated and transformed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 André H. A. Malavazi , Borhan Ahmadi , Paweł Horodecki , Pedro R. Dieguez

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

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

Presence of correlations among the constituent quantum systems has a great relevance in thermodynamics. Significant efforts have been devoted to investigate the role of correlations in work extraction, among others. Here, we derive a bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Mir Alimuddin , Tamal Guha , Preeti Parashar

Understanding the thermodynamic properties of quantum systems is essential for developing energy-efficient quantum technologies. In this regard, this work explores the application of quantum computational methods to study the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Lucas Galvão , Ana Clara das Neves , Maron Anka , Clebson Cruz

We examine the relationship between the second law of thermodynamics and the energy eigenstates of quantum many-body systems that undergo cyclic unitary evolution. Using a numerically optimized control protocol, we analyze how the work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Shotaro Z. Baba , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Takahiro Sagawa

We put forth a notion of optimality for extracting ergotropic work, derived from an energy constraint governing the necessary dynamics for work extraction in a quantum system. Within the traditional ergotropy framework, which predicts an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Pritam Halder , Srijon Ghosh , Saptarshi Roy , Tamal Guha

Maximum quantum work extraction is generally defined in terms of the ergotropy functional, no matter how experimentally complicated is the implementation of the optimal unitary allowing for it, especially in the case of multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Riccardo Castellano , Ranieri Nery , Kyrylo Simonov , Donato Farina

Understanding the role of classical and quantum correlations in work extraction is a problem of fundamental importance in thermodynamics. We approach this problem by considering that, in closed quantum systems, the maximum cyclic work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Gianluca Francica

Continuous-variable quantum thermodynamics in the Gaussian regime provides a promising framework for investigating the energetic role of quantum correlations, particularly in optical systems. In this work, we introduce an entropy-free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Beatriz Polo-Rodríguez , Federico Centrone , Gerardo Adesso , Mir Alimuddin

We analyze work extraction from a qubit into a wave guide (WG) acting as a battery, where work is the coherent component of the energy radiated by the qubit. The process is stimulated by a wave packet whose mean photon number (the battery's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Juliette Monsel , Marco Fellous-Asiani , Benjamin Huard , Alexia Auffèves

Work and quantum correlations are two fundamental resources in thermodynamics and quantum information theory. In this work we study how to use correlations among quantum systems to optimally store work. We analyse this question for isolated…

With the progress of nano-technology, thermodynamics also has to be scaled down, calling for specific protocols to extract and measure work. Usually, such protocols involve the action of an external, classical field (the battery) of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Cyril Elouard , Maxime Richard , Alexia Auffèves

Quantum work capacitances and maximal asymptotic work/energy ratios are figures of merit characterizing the robustness against noise of work extraction processes in quantum batteries formed by collections of quantum systems. In this paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Salvatore Tirone , Raffaele Salvia , Stefano Chessa , Vittorio Giovannetti

In this study, we investigate the effectiveness of entropic uncertainty relations (EURs) in discerning the energy variation in quantum batteries (QBs) modelled by battery-charger-field in the presence of bosonic and fermionic reservoirs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Meng-Long Song , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

Nonlocality is a defining feature of quantum mechanics and has long served as a key indicator of quantum resources since the formulation of Bell's inequalities. Identifying the contribution of nonlocality to extractable work remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 B. Vigneshwar , R. Sankaranarayanan