Certifying ergotropy under partial information

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Autores principales: Pagliaro, Egle, Zambrano, Leonardo, Alimuddin, Mir, Hamma, Alioscia, Acín, Antonio, Farina, Donato
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Publicado: 2026
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author Pagliaro, Egle
Zambrano, Leonardo
Alimuddin, Mir
Hamma, Alioscia
Acín, Antonio
Farina, Donato
author_facet Pagliaro, Egle
Zambrano, Leonardo
Alimuddin, Mir
Hamma, Alioscia
Acín, Antonio
Farina, Donato
contents Ergotropy, the maximum work extractable from a quantum system, is a central resource in quantum physics. Computing ergotropy is well established when the system state is fully known, but its estimation under partial information remains an open problem. Here we introduce a general certification framework that lower bounds ergotropy using only the expectation values of a limited set of arbitrary observables. The method naturally applies in the finite-statistics regime, yielding confidence-certified bounds that explicitly incorporate shot noise. We benchmark our approach on both synthetic data and experimental measurements from an IBM quantum processor. This establishes a robust and experimentally accessible tool for certifying extractable work in realistic quantum settings.
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spellingShingle Certifying ergotropy under partial information
Pagliaro, Egle
Zambrano, Leonardo
Alimuddin, Mir
Hamma, Alioscia
Acín, Antonio
Farina, Donato
Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Ergotropy, the maximum work extractable from a quantum system, is a central resource in quantum physics. Computing ergotropy is well established when the system state is fully known, but its estimation under partial information remains an open problem. Here we introduce a general certification framework that lower bounds ergotropy using only the expectation values of a limited set of arbitrary observables. The method naturally applies in the finite-statistics regime, yielding confidence-certified bounds that explicitly incorporate shot noise. We benchmark our approach on both synthetic data and experimental measurements from an IBM quantum processor. This establishes a robust and experimentally accessible tool for certifying extractable work in realistic quantum settings.
title Certifying ergotropy under partial information
topic Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18828