Quantum Energy Teleportation across a three-spin Ising chain in a Gibbs State

TL;DR

This paper investigates quantum energy teleportation in a three-spin Ising chain at thermal equilibrium, analyzing how quantum correlations like mutual information and discord serve as resources for energy transfer.

Contribution

It demonstrates that quantum discord is not always the resource for QET, and explores the roles of various correlations in a minimal three-spin model.

Findings

Quantum discord is not always the resource for QET.

Two-body correlations influence energy transfer at different temperatures.

The minimal three-spin model allows optimization of QET protocols.

Abstract

In general, it is important to identify what is the informational resource for quantum tasks. Quantum energy teleportation (QET) is a quantum task, which attains energy transfer in an operational meaning by local operations and classical communication, and is expected to play a role in future development of nano scale smart grids. We consider QET protocols in a three-element Ising spin system with non periodic boundary conditions coupled to a thermal bath. The open chain is the minimal model of QET between two edge spins that allows the measurement and operation steps of the QET protocol to be optimized without restriction. It is possible to analyze how two-body correlations of the system, like mutual information, entanglement and quantum discord, can be resources of this QET at each temperature. In particular, we stress that quantum discord is not the QET resource in some cases even if arbitrary measurements and operations are available.