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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

As a quantum thermodynamic device that utilizes quantum systems for energy storage and delivery, the quantum battery (QB) is expected to offer revolutionary advantages in terms of increasing the charging power and the extractable work by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Wan-Lu Song , Ji-Ling Wang , Bin Zhou , Wan-Li Yang , Jun-Hong An

We investigate a two-qubit open Rabi model, focusing on local ergotropy--the maximum extractable work by acting solely on the two qubits--within a parameter regime where a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless dissipative phase transition occurs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 G. Di Bello , D. Farina , D. Jansen , C. A. Perroni , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis

Quantum states that can yield work in a cyclical Hamiltonian process form one of the primary resources in the context of quantum thermodynamics. Conversely, states whose average energy cannot be lowered by unitary transformations are called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Eric G. Brown , Nicolai Friis , Marcus Huber

Quantum batteries (QBs), acting as energy storage devices, have potential applications in future quantum science and technology. However, the QBs inevitably losses energy due to their interaction with environment. How to enhance the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Xian-Li Yin , Meixi Guo , Jian Huang , Heung-wing Joseph Lee , Guofeng Zhang

We investigate the performance of a quantum battery exposed to local Markovian and non-Markovian dephasing noises. The battery is initially prepared as the ground state of a one-dimensional transverse $XY$ model with open boundary condition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Srijon Ghosh , Titas Chanda , Shiladitya Mal , Aditi Sen De

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

We study the energy transfer process in the recently proposed sunburst quantum Ising model, which consists of two interacting integrable systems: a transverse Ising chain with a very small transverse field and a finite number of external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Akash Mitra , Shashi C. L. Srivastava

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

Quantum Energy Teleportation (QET) is a novel method that leverages quantum entanglement to transfer energy between two distant locations without any physical movement of the energy. The first realization of QET on superconducting hardware,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Md Shoyib Hassan , Syed Emad Uddin Shubha , M. R. C Mahdy

Exploiting many-body interaction and critical phenomena to improve the performance of quantum batteries is an emerging and promising line of research. A central question in this direction is whether quantum phase transitions can enhance the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 D. Farina , M. Sassetti , V. Cataudella , D. Ferraro , N. Traverso Ziani

Quantum resources such as entanglement form the backbone of quantum technologies and their efficient generation is a central objective of modern quantum platforms. Independently, quantum batteries have emerged as nanoscale devices that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Vaibhav Sharma , Yiming Wang , Shouvik Sur

We studied the dynamics of entropic uncertainty in Markovian and non-Markovian systems during the charging of open quantum batteries (QBs) mediated by a common dissipation environment. In the non-Markovian regime, the battery is almost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Meng-Long Song , Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

Quantum energy teleportation (QET), implemented via local operations and classical communication, enables carrier-free energy transfer by exploiting quantum resources. While QET has been extensively studied theoretically and validated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Xiaokun Yan , Kun Zhang , Jin Wang

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

Light-harvesting via the transport and trapping of optically-induced electronic excitations is of fundamental interest to the design of new energy efficient quantum technologies. Using a paradigmatic quantum optical model, we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Jonah S. Peter , Raphael Holzinger , Stefan Ostermann , Susanne F. Yelin

We introduce a counter-diabatic approach for deriving Hamiltonians modeling superchargable quantum batteries (QBs). A necessary requirement for the supercharging process is the existence of multipartite interactions among the cells of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 L. F. C. de Moraes , Alan C. Duriez , A. Saguia , Alan C. Santos , Marcelo S. Sarandy

The advantage of quantum batteries is that quantum resources can be used to improve charging efficiency. The quantum resources that are known to be available are: quantum entanglement and quantum coherence. In this paper, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Dayang Zhang , Shuangquan Ma , Yunxiu Jiang , Youbin Yu , Guangri Jin , Aixi Chen

Executing quantum logic in cryogenic quantum computers requires a continuous energy supply from room-temperature control electronics. This dependence on external energy sources creates scalability limitations due to control channel density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Yaniv Kurman , Kieran Hymas , Arkady Fedorov , William J. Munro , James Quach

Quantum batteries, microscopic devices designed to address energy demands in quantum technologies, promise high power during charging and discharging processes. Yet their practical usefulness and performance depend critically on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Brij Mohan , Tanmoy Pandit , Maciej Lewenstein , Manabendra Nath Bera