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Quantum battery (QB) is an application of quantum thermodynamics which uses quantum effects to store and transfer energy, overcoming the limitations of classical batteries and potentially improving performance. However, due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jin-Tian Zhang , Cheng-Ge Liu , Qing Ai

We study a quantum battery (QB) model composed of two atoms, where the charger and battery elements are coupled to a multimode vacuum field that serves as a mediator for energy transfer. Different figures of merit such as ergotropy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Ming-Liang Hu , Ting Gao , Heng Fan

Conservation of energy under thermal operations, \textbf{TO}, is ensured by commutation of the unitary generating such operations with the total Hamiltonian. However in realistic scenarios, perturbations or disturbances in the system are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Debarupa Saha , Aparajita Bhattacharyya , Ujjwal Sen

Quantum thermodynamics explores novel thermodynamic phenomena that emerge when interactions between macroscopic systems and microscopic quantum ones go into action. Among various issues, quantum heat engines, in particular, have attracted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Miku Ishizaki , Naomichi Hatano , Hiroyasu Tajima

Considering ground state of a quantum spin model as the initial state of the quantum battery, we show that both ordered and disordered interaction strengths play a crucial role to increase the extraction of power from it. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Srijon Ghosh , Titas Chanda , Aditi Sen De

We study the performance of a quantum Otto cycle using a harmonic work medium and undergoing collisional dynamics with finite-size reservoirs. We span the dynamical regimes of the work strokes from strongly non-adiabatic to quasi-static…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Marco Pezzutto , Mauro Paternostro , Yasser Omar

Non-equilibrium transport properties of quantum systems have recently become experimentally accessible in a number of platforms in so-called full-counting experiments that measure transient and steady state non-equilibrium transport…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Javier Cerrillo , Maximilian Buser , Tobias Brandes

We investigate a nonequilibrium quantum thermometry protocol in which an ensemble of qubits, acting as temperature probes, is weakly coupled to a macroscopic thermal bath. The temperature of the bath, the parameter of interest, is encoded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Enrico Trombetti , Marco Malitesta , Marco Pezzutto , Stefano Gherardini

We investigate the nonequilibrium refrigeration of one and two-qubit systems in a squeezed thermal bath. We characterize the performance of one and two-qubit refrigerators in the presence of squeezed heat baths, in terms of their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-05 Ashutosh Kumar , Sourabh Lahiri

A nonequilibrium thermodynamic model is presented for the nonisothermal lithium-ion battery cell. Coupling coefficients, all significant for transport of heat, mass, charge and chemical reaction, were used to model profiles of temperature,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Felix Schloms , Øystein Gullbrekken , Signe Kjelstrup

We ask whether there exists a relation between controllability of the fluctuations in extractable energy of a quantum battery and (a) how open an arbitrary but fixed battery system is and (b) how large the battery is. We examine three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Anindita Sarkar , Paranjoy Chaki , Priya Ghosh , Ujjwal Sen

Collision models provide a simple and versatile setting to capture the dynamics of open quantum systems. The standard approach to thermalisition in this setting involves an environment of independent and identically-prepared thermal qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Ronan McElvogue , Andrew K. Mitchell , Gabriel T. Landi , Steve Campbell

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

Ergotropy--a key figure of merit for quantum battery (QB) performance--plays a crucial role. However, the dynamics and physical mechanisms governing ergotropy evolution remain open challenges. Here, we investigate the ergotropy of a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Cheng-Jie Wang , Fu-Quan Dou

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 thermodynamics has emerged as a central field for understanding how energy conversion processes occur in microscopic systems. In these systems, effects such as coherence, entanglement, and non-Markovianity play key roles. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca

The analytically tractable model employing Quantum Markovian Master Equations, derived by weak coupling procedure and satisfying complete positivity, is proposed to describe a model of molecular battery charged by a non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Robert Alicki

We study the internal dynamics of an elementary quantum system placed close to a body held at a temperature different from that of the surrounding radiation. We derive general expressions for lifetime and density matrix valid for bodies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Bruno Bellomo , Riccardo Messina , Mauro Antezza

Finding a quantum battery model that demonstrates a quantum advantage while remaining feasible for experimental production is a considerable challenge. Here, a superconducting quantum battery (SQB) model that exhibits such an advantage is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Samira Elghaayda , Asad Ali , Saif Al-Kuwari , Artur Czerwinski , Mostafa Mansour , Saeed Haddadi

Quantum battery (QB) is an energy storage and extraction device conforming to the principles of quantum mechanics. In this study, we consider the characteristics of QBs for the Heisenberg spin chain models in the absence and presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Xiang-Long Zhang , Xue-Ke Song , Dong Wang