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Finding a quantum battery model that displays a genuine quantum advantage, while being prone to experimental fabrication, is an extremely challenging task. In this Letter we propose a deceptively simple quantum battery model that displays a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Gian Marcello Andolina , Vittoria Stanzione , Vittorio Giovannetti , Marco Polini

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…

Quantum batteries (QBs) exploit collective quantum resources to surpass the limits of classical energy storage and power delivery. We analyze $N$-qubit cavity-coupled QBs governed by Dicke and Tavis--Cummings models under Gaussian driving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Juan David Álvarez-Cuartas , John H. Reina

We address the quantification of non-Gaussianity of states and operations in continuous-variable systems and its use in quantum information. We start by illustrating in details the properties and the relationships of two recently proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 Marco G. Genoni , Matteo G. A. Paris

In the context of quantum technologies over continuous variables, Gaussian states and operations are typically regarded as freely available, as they are relatively easily accessible experimentally. In contrast, the generation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Oliver Hahn , Patric Holmvall , Pascal Stadler , Giulia Ferrini , Alessandro Ferraro

Connections between the resource theories of coherence and purity (or non-uniformity) are well known for discrete-variable, finite-dimensional, quantum systems. We establish analogous results for continuous-variable systems, in particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Giulio Gianfelici , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

What are the resources that can be leveraged for a thermodynamic device to exhibit genuine quantum advantage? Typically, the answer to this question is sought in quantum correlations. In the present work, we show that quantum Otto engines…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-20 Sebastian Deffner

Quantum batteries are quantum mechanical systems able to store and release energy in a controlled fashion. Among them, a special role is played by quantum structures defined as networks of two-level systems. In this context, it has recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Riccardo Grazi , Dario Ferraro , Niccolò Traverso Ziani

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

The precision of nonequilibrium thermodynamic systems is fundamentally limited, yet how quantum coherence shapes these limits remains largely unexplored. A general theoretical framework is introduced that explicitly links quantum coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Shanhe Su , Cong Fu , Ousi Pan , Shihao Xia , Fei Liu , Jincan Chen

We show that quantum coherence can increase the quantum efficiency of various thermodynamic systems. For example, we can enhance the quantum efficiency for a quantum dot photocell, a laser based solar cell and the photo-Carnot quantum heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-03 Kimberly Chapin , Konstantin Dorfman , Anatoly Svidzinsky , Marlan Scully

A quantum battery is a device where an energy is charged by using a quantum effect. Here, we propose a quantum battery with a charger system composed of $N$ qubits by utilizing a collective effect called a superabsorption. Importantly, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Yudai Ueki , Shunsuke Kamimura , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Kyo Yoshida , Yasuhiro Tokura

A new microcanonical equilibrium state is introduced for quantum systems with finite-dimensional state spaces. Equilibrium is characterised by a uniform distribution on a level surface of the expectation value of the Hamiltonian. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-25 Dorje C. Brody , Daniel W. Hook , Lane P. Hughston

Quantum batteries, small-scale energy storage devices based on quantum systems, offer the potential for enhanced charging performance through quantum effects such as coherence and collectivity. In this work, we study the collective charging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Chayan Purkait , B. Prasanna Venkatesh , Gentaro Watanabe

Quantum dynamics can be analyzed via the structure of energy eigenstates. However, in the many-body setting, preparing eigenstates associated with finite temperatures requires time scaling exponentially with system size. In this work we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Samuel J. Garratt , Soonwon Choi

We explore the use of fractional control-not gates in quantum thermodynamics. The Nth-root gate allows for a paced application of two-qubit operations. We apply it in quantum thermodynamic protocols for charging a quantum battery. Circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Elliot Fox , Marcela Herrera , Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler , Irene D'Amico

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

The phase diagram of strong interactions in nature at finite temperature and chemical potential remains largely unexplored theoretically due to inadequacy of Monte-Carlo-based computational techniques in overcoming a sign problem. Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-03-05 Zohreh Davoudi , Niklas Mueller , Connor Powers

The recent advances in the study of thermodynamics of microscopic processes have driven the search for new developments in energy converters utilizing quantum effects. We here propose a universal framework to describe the thermodynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Zhiyuan Lin , Shanhe Su , Jingyi Chen , Jincan Chen , Jonas F. G. Santos

We consider a quantum engine driven by repeated weak interactions with a heat bath of identical three-level atoms. This model was first introduced by Scully et al. [Science, 2003], who showed that coherence between the energy-degenerate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Thomas Guff , Shakib Daryanoosh , Ben Q. Baragiola , Alexei Gilchrist