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This study investigates quantum energy teleportation (QET) using stochastic bi-partitioning in an $N-$body Hamiltonian system. In this protocol, project measurements are performed on $(N - m)$ qubits to capture quantum fluctuation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Zhirong Xun , Changliang Ren

We study a quantum battery made out of $N$ non-mutually interacting qubits coupled to a dissipative single electromagnetic field mode in a resonator. We quantify the charging energy, ergotropy, transfer rate, and power of the system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Javier Carrasco , Jerónimo R. Maze , Carla Hermann-Avigliano , Felipe Barra

We consider a model for a quantum battery consisting of a collection of $N$ two-level atoms driven by a classical field and decaying to a common reservoir. In the extensive regime, where the energy $E$ scales as $N$ and the fluctuations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Sagar Pokhrel , Julio Gea-Banacloche

We present a collision model for the charging of a quantum battery by identical nonequilibrium qubit units. When the units are prepared in a mixture of energy eigenstates, the energy gain in the battery can be described by a classical…

We analyze the role of indirect quantum measurements in work extraction from quantum systems in nonequilibrium states. In particular, we focus on the work that can be obtained by exploiting the correlations shared between the system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-24 Gonzalo Manzano , Francesco Plastina , Roberta Zambrini

We investigate work extraction in open quantum batteries composed of interacting spin chains weakly coupled to engineered environments. Focusing on two- and four-qubit XX models initially prepared in thermal Gibbs states, we analyze how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Riccardo Grazi , Donato Farina , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Dario Ferraro

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

Quantum coherence, encoded in the off-diagonal elements of a system's density matrix, is a key resource in quantum thermodynamics, fundamentally limiting the maximum extractable work known as ergotropy. While previous experiments have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Li Li , Silu Zhao , Yun-Hao Shi , Kai Xu , Heng Fan , Dongning Zheng , Zhongcheng Xiang

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

In this paper we discuss a protocol for charging a two-level quantum battery using a bipartite charger composed of two quantum harmonic oscillators. As one of its features, it allows us to fully charge the battery and is universally optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yohan Vianna , Marcelo F. Santos

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…

The theory of quantum thermodynamics predicts fundamental bounds on work extraction from quantum states. As these bounds are derived in a very general and abstract setting, it is unclear how relevant they are in an experimental context,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Niels Lörch , Christoph Bruder , Nicolas Brunner , Patrick P. Hofer

The challenge of storing energy efficiently and sustainably is highly prominent within modern scientific investigations. Due to the ongoing trend of miniaturization, the design of expressly quantum storage devices is itself a crucial task…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

Quantum batteries can be charged by performing a work ``instantaneously'' in the limit of a large number of cells, achieving a so-called quantum advantage. In general, the work exhibits statistics that can be represented by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Gianluca Francica

We study the connection between the charging power of quantum batteries and the fluctuations of the extractable work. We prove that in order to have a non-zero rate of change of the extractable work, the state $\rho_\mathcal{W}$ of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 Luis Pedro García-Pintos , Alioscia Hamma , Adolfo del Campo

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

Inspired by the primary goal of quantum thermodynamics -- to characterize quantum signatures and leverage their benefits in thermodynamic scenarios -- , we design a work extraction game within a bipartite framework that exhibits a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Tanmoy Biswas , Chandan Datta , Luis Pedro García-Pintos

We investigate how the presence of quantum correlations can influence work extraction in closed quantum systems, establishing a new link between the field of quantum non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the one of quantum information theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Gianluca Francica , John Goold , Mauro Paternostro , Francesco Plastina

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

Extracting work from a physical system is one of the cornerstones of quantum thermodynamics. The extractable work, as quantified by ergotropy, necessitates a complete description of the quantum system. This is significantly more challenging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Shantanav Chakraborty , Siddhartha Das , Arnab Ghorui , Soumyabrata Hazra , Uttam Singh