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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

Quantum batteries, composed of quantum cells, are expected to outperform their classical analogs. The origin of such advantages lies in the role of quantum correlations, which may arise during the charging and discharging processes…

Quantum batteries are energy-storing devices, governed by quantum mechanics, that promise high charging performance thanks to collective effects. Due to its experimental feasibility, the Dicke battery - which comprises $N$ two-level systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Paolo Andrea Erdman , Gian Marcello Andolina , Vittorio Giovannetti , Frank Noé

We reconsider the quantum energetics and quantum thermodynamics of the charging process of a simple, two-component quantum battery model made up of a charger qubit and a single--cell battery qubit. We allow for the initial quantum state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

A quantum battery is a temporary energy-storage system. We constructed the quantum battery model of an N-spin chain with nearest-neighbor hopping interaction and investigated the charging process of the quantum battery. We obtained the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 Fang Zhao , Fu-Quan Dou , Qing Zhao

We propose a quantum charging scheme fueled by measurements on ancillary qubits serving as disposable chargers. A stream of identical qubits are sequentially coupled to a quantum battery of $N+1$ levels and measured by projective operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Jia-shun Yan , Jun Jing

Identifying the origin of enhanced charging performance in many-body quantum batteries remains a central challenge in quantum thermodynamics. It is unclear whether improvements in stored energy and instantaneous charging power stem from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Rohit Kumar Shukla , Sunil K. Mishra , Ujjwal Sen

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

In realistic open-system environments, decoherence and dissipation naturally drive quantum batteries toward passive states, thereby limiting their maximum extractable work (ergotropy). While quantum catalysis has been proposed to mitigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Shun-Cai Zhao

We theoretically identify the noise-induced coherent contribution to the ergotropy of a four-level quantum heat engine coupled to a unimodal quantum cavity. We utilize a protocol where the passive state's quasiprobabilities can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Manash Jyoti Sarmah , Himangshu Prabal Goswami

We propose and analyze a hybrid qubit-qutrit quantum battery (QB) based on a mixed spin-1/2 and spin-1 system interacting via an anisotropic Heisenberg exchange coupling in the presence of a homogeneous magnetic field. The nonclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 G. Sharvan Prakash , R. Muthuganesan

The quantum battery capacity is introduced in this letter as a figure of merit that expresses the potential of a quantum system to store and supply energy. It is defined as the difference between the highest and the lowest energy that can…

We demonstrate the possibility of a genuine quantum advantage in the efficiency of quantum batteries by analyzing a model that enables a consistent comparison between quantum and classical regimes. Our system consists of $N$ harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 F. Cavaliere , D. Ferraro , M. Carrega , G. Benenti , M. Sassetti

Quantum battery (QB) is the energy storage and extraction device that is governed by the principles of quantum mechanics. Here we propose a three-level Dicke QB and investigate its charging process by considering three quantum optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Dong-Lin Yang , Fang-Mei Yang , Fu-Quan Dou

Going beyond isolated system dynamics, we examine how local and spatially correlated reservoirs influence the work extraction in quantum batteries. By employing a one-dimensional spin-1/2 model coupled to baths via dephasing and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Sejal Ahuja , Tanoy Kanti Konar , Aditi Sen De

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

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

In this work, we investigate autonomous charging of a quantum battery coupled to a structured reservoir composed of two qubits, each locally coupled to its own bosonic thermal bath. Moreover, the reservoir interacts with a charger-battery…

We analyze the geometric phase and dynamic phase acquired by a qubit coupled to an environment through pure dephasing, establishing a direct connection between phase accumulation and ergotropy. We show that the dynamic phase depends solely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

We study the collective charging of a quantum battery (QB) consisting of a one-dimensional molecular aggregate and a coupled single-mode cavity, to which we refer as an ``organic quantum battery" since the battery part is an organic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Jiawei Li , Ning Wu