New Trends on Quantum Batteries and Energetics in the Quantum Regime
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Information".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2023) | Viewed by 3915
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fractional quantum Hall effect; quantum spin Hall effect; electron quantum optics; interaction effects in low-dimensional systems; energy transport in topological edge channels; quantum batteries
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Dear Colleagues,
The possibility to realize miniaturized devices able to outclass their classical competitors in terms of performance represents one of the main achievements in the field of quantum technologies. Closely intertwined with these technological milestones is the increasing interest in quantum thermodynamics, a very active topic where classical notions such as work and heat are reinvestigated in order to properly characterize the functioning of thermal machines, batteries and energy transfer devices based on quantum systems.
Concerning quantum batteries, various theoretical proposals have been elaborated with the aim of characterizing miniaturized devices able to exploit purely non-classical features in order to outperform their classical counterparts in terms of energy storage, charging power and work extraction. These investigations represent a radical change of perspective in the framework of energy storage and transfer with respect to the electrochemical principles developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the scenarios opened by these research are still largely uncharted.
The majority of the proposals discussed so far are designed to be implemented on existing platforms such as set-ups for quantum computation, arrays of artificial atoms and systems for cavity and circuit quantum electrodynamics. Very remarkably, the first experimental evidence based on these proposals started to appear during the last two years.
However, the research on quantum batteries and more generally devices for energy manipulation at the quantum level is still in its infancy and various relevant aspects remain unexplored. For example, even if very important results have been derived starting from simplified models, additional ingredients such sample dependent features and inhomogeneities in the parameters of the building blocks composing the quantum batteries need to be carefully included in order to fill the gap between theoretical analysis and experimental implementations. Moreover, even if the experience maturated in the domain of quantum computing and quantum information has been very precious, the possibility to investigate new experimental platforms and designs could be open interesting new perspectives in this field.
In this spirit, the present Special Issue is devoted to collecting the current theoretical and experimental state-of-the-art on the domain of quantum batteries to settle a common background for future development in the subject acquiring new insight into the manipulation of energy at the quantum level.
Dr. Dario Ferraro
Guest Editor
Alba Crescente
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- quantum batteries
- quantum advantage
- charging power
- ergotropy
- quantum simulations
- coherent energy transfer and manipulation
