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High-Power Collective Charging of a Solid-State Quantum Battery
Dario Ferraro1, Michele Campisi1, Gian Marcello Andolina1,2
1Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Graphene Labs, Via Morego 30, I-16163 Genova, Italy.
Abstract:
Quantum information theorems state that it is possible to exploit collective quantum resources to greatly enhance the charging power of quantum batteries (QBs) made of many identical elementary units. We here present and solve a model of a QB that can be engineered in solid-state architectures. It consists of N two-level systems coupled to a single photonic mode in a cavity. We contrast this collective model ("Dicke QB"), whereby entanglement is genuinely created by the common photonic mode, to the one in which each two-level system is coupled to its own separate cavity mode ("Rabi QB"). By employing exact diagonalization, we demonstrate the emergence of a quantum advantage in the charging power of Dicke QBs, which scales like sqrt[N] for N≫1.
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