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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 propose a physical scheme of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt battery and utilize quantum work extraction as a probe to witness the thermal nature of the Unruh effect induced by the accelerated motion. By employing the open quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 Wei-Wei Zhang , Tian-Xi Ren , Yin-Zhong Wu , Xiang Hao

The realization of scalable quantum battery architectures requires concern not only with how much energy can be stored, but also with how energy is transported, distributed, and converted into extractable work across connected battery…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Bing-Bing Liu , Rui Chen , Jin-Lei Wu , Gang Chen , Shi-Lei Su

Quantum batteries represent one of the most promising applications of quantum thermodynamics, whose goal is not only to store energy inside small quantum systems but also to potentially leverage genuine quantum effects to outperform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Davide Rinaldi , Radim Filip , Dario Gerace , Giacomo Guarnieri

We present a scheme for the charging of a quantum battery based on the dynamics of an open quantum system undergoing coherent quantum squeezing and affected by an incoherent squeezed thermal bath. We show that quantum coherence, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Federico Centrone , Luca Mancino , Mauro Paternostro

Machine learning offers a promising methodology to tackle complex challenges in quantum physics. In the realm of quantum batteries (QBs), model construction and performance optimization are central tasks. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Peng-Yu Sun , Hang Zhou , Fu-Quan Dou

Ergotropy, the maximum work extractable from a quantum system, is a central resource in quantum physics. Computing ergotropy is well established when the system state is fully known, but its estimation under partial information remains an…

A fundamental problem in quantum thermodynamics is to properly quantify the work extractable from out-of-equilibrium systems. While for closed systems, maximum quantum work extraction is defined in terms of the ergotropy functional, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Riccardo Castellano , Donato Farina , Vittorio Giovannetti , Antonio Acin

Can collective quantum effects make a difference in a meaningful thermodynamic operation? Focusing on energy storage and batteries, we demonstrate that quantum mechanics can lead to an enhancement in the amount of work deposited per unit…

Quantum battery works as a micro- or nano-device to store and redistribute energy at the quantum level. Here we propose a spin-charger protocol, in which the battery cells are charged by a finite number of spins through a general Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-03 Yong Huangfu , Jun Jing

In general, quantum systems most likely undergo open system dynamics due to their smallness and sensitivity. Energy storage devices, so-called quantum batteries, are not excluded from this phenomenon. Here, we study fundamental bounds on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 S. Zakavati , F. T. Tabesh , S. Salimi

The quantum ergotropy quantifies the maximal amount of work that can be extracted from a quantum state without changing its entropy. Given that the ergotropy can be expressed as the difference of quantum and classical relative entropies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 Akira Sone , Sebastian Deffner

We examine the transport of useful energy, i.e. extractable work as quantified by the ergotropy, along a spin chain with tuneable exchange couplings between the sites. We focus on, and interpolate between, the two physically relevant limits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Dara Murphy , Anthony Kiely , Irene D'Amico , Steve Campbell

We show that harnessing daemonic advantage is possible while charging a quantum battery by first time-evolving the battery collectively with an auxiliary charger, followed by an energy extraction via tracing out the charger. We define the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Chandrima B. Pushpan , Amit Kumar Pal

The charging of a quantum battery by a four-stroke quantum machine that works either as an engine or a refrigerator is investigated. The presented analysis provides the energetic behavior of the combined system in terms of the heat and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Jeongrak Son , Peter Talkner , Juzar Thingna

We propose a theoretical model of a fully functional nonreciprocal quantum battery inspired by the architecture of bacterial light-harvesting complexes. We assign functional roles to collective quantum optical subradiant and superradiant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Trishna Kalita , Manash Jyoti Sarmah , Himangshu Prabal Goswami

Quantum batteries (QBs), harnessing quantum systems to transfer and store energy, have garnered substantial attention recently, enabling potentials in enhanced charging capacity, increased charging power, and device miniaturization.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Hua-Wei Zhao , Yong Xie , Xinyao Huang , Guo-Feng Zhang

Quantum batteries are miniature energy storage devices and play a very important role in quantum thermodynamics. In recent years, quantum batteries have been extensively studied, but limited in theoretical level. Here we report the…

Nowadays, quantum batteries (QBs) have been designed to outperform their classical counterparts by leveraging quantum advantages. For instance, the charging power greatly benefits from the entanglement generation of a collective charging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Guohui Dong , Mengqi Yu , Yao Yao

Work extraction protocol is always a significant issue in the context of quantum batteries, in which the notion of ergotropy is used to quantify a particular amount of energy that can be extracted through unitary processes. Given the total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 F. H. Kamin , S. Salimi , Alan C. Santos
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