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Spin-chain model of a many-body quantum battery

Le, TP; Levinsen, J; Modi, K; Parish, MM; Pollock, FA; (2018) Spin-chain model of a many-body quantum battery. Physical Review A , 97 (2) , Article 022106. 10.1103/PhysRevA.97.022106. Green open access

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Abstract

Recently, it has been shown that energy can be deposited on a collection of quantum systems at a rate that scales superextensively. Some of these schemes for quantum batteries rely on the use of global many-body interactions that take the batteries through a correlated shortcut in state space. Here we extend the notion of a quantum battery from a collection of a priori isolated systems to a many-body quantum system with intrinsic interactions. Specifically, we consider a one-dimensional spin chain with physically realistic two-body interactions. We find that the spin-spin interactions can yield an advantage in charging power over the noninteracting case and we demonstrate that this advantage can grow superextensively when the interactions are long ranged. However, we show that, unlike in previous work, this advantage is a mean-field interaction effect that does not involve correlations and that relies on the interactions being intrinsic to the battery.

Type: Article
Title: Spin-chain model of a many-body quantum battery
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.97.022106
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.022106
Language: English
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UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10091809
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