Cooperative isentropic charging of hybrid quantum batteries
Yohan Vianna de Almeida, Tiago F. F. Santos, Marcelo F. Santos
Abstract
Quantum batteries are quantum systems used to store energy to be later extracted by an external agent in the form of work to perform some task. Here we study the charging of a hybrid quantum battery via a collisional model mediated by an anti-Jaynes-Cummings interaction obtained from an off-resonant Raman configuration. The battery is made of two distinct components: a stationary infinite-dimensional single quantum system (e.g., a harmonic oscillator) and a stream of small-dimensional ones (e.g., qutrits). The charging protocol consists of sequentially interacting the harmonic oscillator with each element of the stream, one at a time, under the action of an external energy source and the goal is to analyze how the charging of both the harmonic oscillator and the qutrits is affected by the correlation properties of the stream.