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The amount of work that can be extracted from a quantum system can be increased by exploiting the information obtained from a measurement performed on a correlated ancillary system. The concept of daemonic ergotropy has been introduced to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Daniele Morrone , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Marco G. Genoni

Although implementing shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) in open quantum systems remains challenging due to the complex control schemes required for such systems, their powerful ability to rapidly steer the system toward target states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Sh. Ebrahimi , S. Salimi , F. T. Tabesh , A. S. Khorashad

An interesting class of physical systems, including those associated with life, demonstrates the ability to hold thermalization at bay and perpetuate states of high free-energy compared to a local environment. In this work, we study quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Unnati Akhouri , Sarah Shandera , Gaukhar Yesmurzayeva

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

Ergotropy serves as a key indicator for assessing the performance of quantum batteries(QBs). Using the Redfield master equation, we investigate ergotropy dynamics in a non-Markovian QB composed of an N-spin chain embedded in a microcavity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Shun-Cai Zhao , Zi-Ran Zhao , Ni-Ya Zhuang

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

Transport phenomena are fundamental in Physics. They allow for information and energy to be exchanged between individual constituents of communication systems, networks or even biological entities. Environmental noise will generally hinder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. B. Plenio , S. F. Huelga

We revisit the adiabatic charging of a three-level QBs, using the adiabatic quantum master equation formalism. We restrict ourselves to the weak-coupling regime with an Ohmic thermal bath and investigate the effects of relaxation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 M. A. Fasihi , R. Jafarzadeh Bahrbeig , B. Mojaveri , R. Haji Mohammadzadeh

We investigate the decomposition of ergotropy into incoherent and coherent contributions for quantum systems subject to typical Markovian noise channels. The incoherent part originates from population inversion in the energy eigenbasis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Mohammad B. Arjmandi

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

Quantum batteries utilize nonclassical resources to achieve charging speed and energy storage performances that surpass classical thermodynamic limits. However, the practical realization of quantum batteries is often constrained by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Fan Yang , Hui Wang , Yusef Maleki , William J. Munro , Girish S. Agarwal , Marlan O. Scully

This study investigates the potential of local non-unital noise and quantum channel memory to enhance work extraction from classically correlated quantum states. Utilizing the framework of daemonic ergotropy, which incorporates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Maryam Hadipour , Soroush Haseli

A system in thermal equilibrium with a bath will generally be in an athermal state, if the system-bath coupling is strong. In some cases, it will be possible to extract work from that athermal state, after disconnecting the system from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Felipe Barra , Alberto Imparato

We present a theoretical analysis of the energy recovery efficiency for quantum batteries composed of many identical quantum cells undergoing noise. While the possibility of using quantum effects to speed up the charging processes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Salvatore Tirone , Raffaele Salvia , Stefano Chessa , Vittorio Giovannetti

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

We determine the characteristic of dissipative quantum transport in a coupled qubit network in the presence of on-site and off-diagonal external driving. The work is motivated by the dephasing-assisted quantum transport where noise is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Donny Dwiputra , Jusak S. Kosasih , Albertus Sulaiman , F. P. Zen

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

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

"A battery powers a device" can be read as "work stored in the battery is being transported to the device." In quantum batteries, the total amount of stored work can be measured by ergotropy, which is the maximal work extractable by unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Rick P. A. Simon , Janet Anders , Karen V. Hovhannisyan

We investigate the connection between quantum resources and extractable work in quantum batteries. We demonstrate that quantum coherence in the battery or the battery-charger entanglement is a necessary resource for generating nonzero…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Hai-Long Shi , Shu Ding , Qing-Kun Wan , Xiao-Hui Wang , Wen-Li Yang