2017/12/10 by Thao P. Le, Jesper Levinsen, Kavan Modi +2 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph #cond-mat.other
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.97.022106
published as Phys. Rev. A 97, 022106 (2018) · 9 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2017/12/10 · arxiv updated 2018/02/21
Recently, it has been shown that energy can be deposited on a collection of quantum systems at a rate that scales super-extensively. Some of these schemes for `quantum batteries' rely on the use of global many-body interactions that take the batteries through a correlated short cut 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 non-interacting case, and we demonstrate that this advantage can grow super-extensively 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.