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Entanglement boost for extractable work from ensembles of quantum batteries
Phys. Rev. E 87, 042123 – Published 25 April, 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042123
Abstract
Motivated by the recent interest in thermodynamics of micro- and mesoscopic quantum systems we study the maximal amount of work that can be reversibly extracted from a quantum system used to temporarily store energy. Guided by the notion of passivity of a quantum state we show that entangling unitary controls extract in general more work than independent ones. In the limit of a large number of copies one can reach the thermodynamical bound given by the variational principle for the free energy.
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