Harnessing Environmental Noise for Quantum Energy Storage

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Hauptverfasser: Ahmadi, Borhan, Ravichandran, Aravinth Balaji, Mazurek, Paweł, Barzanjeh, Shabir, Horodecki, Paweł
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author Ahmadi, Borhan
Ravichandran, Aravinth Balaji
Mazurek, Paweł
Barzanjeh, Shabir
Horodecki, Paweł
author_facet Ahmadi, Borhan
Ravichandran, Aravinth Balaji
Mazurek, Paweł
Barzanjeh, Shabir
Horodecki, Paweł
contents Quantum hardware increasingly relies on energy reserves that can later be converted into useful work; yet, most battery-like proposals demand coherent drives or engineered non-equilibrium resources, limiting practicality in noisy settings. We develop an autonomous charging paradigm in which an ensemble of identical two-level units, collectively coupled to a thermal environment, acquires work capacity without any external control. The common bath mediates interference between emission and absorption pathways, steering the many-body state away from passivity and into a steady regime with nonzero extractable work. The full charging dynamics and closed-form expressions are obtained for the steady-state, showing favorable scaling with the number of cells that approach the many-body optimum. We show that the mechanism is robust to local noise: under a convex mixture of collective and local dissipation, non-zero steady-state ergotropy persists, exhibits counterintuitive finite-temperature optima, and remains operative when the collective channel is comparable to or stronger than the local one. We show that environmental fluctuations can be harnessed to realize drive-free, scalable quantum batteries compatible with circuit- and cavity-QED platforms. Used as local work buffers, such batteries could potentially enable rapid ancilla reset, bias dissipative stabilizer pumps, and reduce syndrome-extraction overhead in fault-tolerant quantum computing.
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spellingShingle Harnessing Environmental Noise for Quantum Energy Storage
Ahmadi, Borhan
Ravichandran, Aravinth Balaji
Mazurek, Paweł
Barzanjeh, Shabir
Horodecki, Paweł
Quantum Physics
Quantum hardware increasingly relies on energy reserves that can later be converted into useful work; yet, most battery-like proposals demand coherent drives or engineered non-equilibrium resources, limiting practicality in noisy settings. We develop an autonomous charging paradigm in which an ensemble of identical two-level units, collectively coupled to a thermal environment, acquires work capacity without any external control. The common bath mediates interference between emission and absorption pathways, steering the many-body state away from passivity and into a steady regime with nonzero extractable work. The full charging dynamics and closed-form expressions are obtained for the steady-state, showing favorable scaling with the number of cells that approach the many-body optimum. We show that the mechanism is robust to local noise: under a convex mixture of collective and local dissipation, non-zero steady-state ergotropy persists, exhibits counterintuitive finite-temperature optima, and remains operative when the collective channel is comparable to or stronger than the local one. We show that environmental fluctuations can be harnessed to realize drive-free, scalable quantum batteries compatible with circuit- and cavity-QED platforms. Used as local work buffers, such batteries could potentially enable rapid ancilla reset, bias dissipative stabilizer pumps, and reduce syndrome-extraction overhead in fault-tolerant quantum computing.
title Harnessing Environmental Noise for Quantum Energy Storage
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06384