Charging quantum batteries via Otto machines: influence of monitoring

  • 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 workflows of the machine, the average, the variance of the battery's energy, as well as the coherent and incoherent parts of its ergotropy. To monitor the battery state, its energy is measured either after the completion of any cycle or after a prescribed number of cycles is carried out. The resulting battery performances greatly differ for those two cases. During the first charging epoch with an engine, the regular measurements speed up the charging, whereas the gain of ergotropy is more pronounced in the absence of measurements. In a later stage, the engine fails to work as such, while it still continues charging the battery that eventually reaches the maximally charged state in the absence of intermediate measurements and a suboptimally charged stateThe 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 workflows of the machine, the average, the variance of the battery's energy, as well as the coherent and incoherent parts of its ergotropy. To monitor the battery state, its energy is measured either after the completion of any cycle or after a prescribed number of cycles is carried out. The resulting battery performances greatly differ for those two cases. During the first charging epoch with an engine, the regular measurements speed up the charging, whereas the gain of ergotropy is more pronounced in the absence of measurements. In a later stage, the engine fails to work as such, while it still continues charging the battery that eventually reaches the maximally charged state in the absence of intermediate measurements and a suboptimally charged state for a periodically measured battery. For a refrigerator, the charging of the measured battery also proceeds faster during the first epoch. Only during the second stage, when the machine fails to extract heat from the cold bath, the influence of the measurements becomes less pronounced, leading to rather similar asymptotic states for the two measurement scenarios.show moreshow less

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Author:Jeongrak Son, Peter TalknerGND, Juzar Thingna
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1009352
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/100935
ISSN:2469-9926OPAC
ISSN:2469-9934OPAC
Parent Title (English):Physical Review A
Publisher:American Physical Society (APS)
Place of publication:College PK, MD
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2022
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2023/01/12
Volume:106
Issue:5
First Page:052202
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.106.052202
Institutes:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät / Institut für Physik
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät / Institut für Physik / Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik I
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):Deutsches Urheberrecht