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While the spatial arrangement of individual units is essential for the physical implementation of quantum batteries, geometry-dependent interactions are rarely explicitly incorporated into existing theoretical models. To address this, we…

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We consider reversible work extraction from identical quantum batteries. From an ensemble of individually passive states, work can be produced only via global unitary (and thus entangling) operations. However, we show here that there always…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Marcus Huber , Antonio Acín

Quantum entanglement may have various origins ranging from solely interaction-driven quantum correlations to single-particle effects. Here, we explore the dependence of entanglement on time-dependent single-particle basis transformations in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-28 Lorenzo Pastori , Markus Heyl , Jan Carl Budich

Within quantum thermodynamics, many tasks are modelled by processes that require work sources represented by out-of-equilibrium quantum systems, often dubbed quantum batteries, in which work can be deposited or from which work can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Pharnam Bakhshinezhad , Beniamin R. Jablonski , Felix C. Binder , Nicolai Friis

Devices that use quantum advantages for storing energy in the degree of freedom of quantum systems have drawn attention due to their properties of working as quantum batteries. However, one can identify a number of problems that need to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Alan C. Santos

Quantum batteries are energy storage devices that satisfy quantum mechanical principles. How to improve the battery's performance such as stored energy and power is a crucial element in the quantum battery. Here, we investigate the charging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Fu-Quan Dou , Yuan-Jin Wang , Jian-An Sun

Quantum information theorems state that it is possible to exploit collective quantum resources to greatly enhance the charging power of quantum batteries (QBs) made of many identical elementary units. We here present and solve a model of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-19 Dario Ferraro , Michele Campisi , Gian Marcello Andolina , Vittorio Pellegrini , Marco Polini

With intensive studies of quantum thermodynamics, quantum batteries (QBs) have been proposed to store and transfer energy via quantum effects. Despite many theoretical models, decoherence remains a severe challenge and practical platforms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Jin-Tian Zhang , Shuang-Quan Ma , Jing-Yi-Ran Jin , Tao Liu , Qing Ai

For quantum many-body systems with short-range correlations (SRCs), the intimate relationship between their magnitude, the behavior of the single-particle occupation probabilities at momenta larger than the Fermi momentum, and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-23 Aurel Bulgac

The minimum time required for a quantum system to evolve to a distinguishable state is set by the quantum speed limit, and consequently influences the change of quantum correlations and other physical properties. Here we study the time…

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

Understanding the entanglement structure of out-of-equilibrium many-body systems is a challenging yet revealing task. Here we investigate the entanglement dynamics after a quench from a piecewise homogeneous initial state in integrable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-26 Vincenzo Alba

Quantum batteries are energy storage or extract devices in a quantum system. Here, we present a closed-loop quantum battery by utilizing a closed-loop three-state quantum system in which the population dynamics depends on the three control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Fu-Quan Dou , Yuan-Jin Wang , Jian-An Sun

We propose an innovative design for quantum batteries (QBs) that involves coupling two-level systems to a topological photonic waveguide. Employing the resolvent method, we analytically explore the thermodynamic performance of QBs. First,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Zhi-Guang Lu , Guoqing Tian , Xin-You Lü , Cheng Shang

The generation of entanglement produced by a local potential interaction in a bipartite system is investigated. The degree of entanglement is contrasted with the underlying classical dynamics for a Rydberg molecule (a charged particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lombardi , A. Matzkin

Entanglement within a given device provides a potential resource for quantum information processing. Entanglement between system and environment leads to decoherence (thus suppressing non-classical features within the system) but also opens…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guenter Mahler , Jochen Gemmer , Mathias Michel

Quantum battery has become one of the hot issues at the research frontiers of quantum physics recently. Charging power, extractable work and wireless charging over long-distance are three important aspects of interest. Non-contact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jun Wen , Zheng Wen , Ping Peng , Guan-Qiang Li

Quantum batteries are quantum systems used to store energy to be later extracted by an external agent in the form of work to perform some task. Here we study the charging of a hybrid quantum battery via a collisional model mediated by an…

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

Motivated by the recent interest in thermodynamics of micro- and mesoscopic quantum systems we study the maximal amount of work that can be reversibly extracted from a quantum system used to store temporarily energy. Guided by the notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-01 Robert Alicki , Mark Fannes

Entanglement is at the core of quantum physics, playing a central role in quantum phenomena involving composite systems. According to the timeless picture of quantum dynamics, entanglement may also be essential for understanding the very…

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