Quantum Battery with Ultracold Atoms: Bosons vs. Fermions

TL;DR

This paper compares bosonic and fermionic ultracold-atom quantum batteries, analyzing their performance under various conditions, and finds that fermions outperform bosons at low temperatures, while bosons excel at higher temperatures, with robustness against disorder.

Contribution

It introduces a comparative analysis of bosonic and fermionic quantum batteries using Hubbard models, highlighting conditions where each outperforms the other and examining effects of disorder.

Findings

Fermions outperform bosons at low initial temperatures.

Bosons outperform fermions at higher initial temperatures.

Maximum power is robust against disorder and can be enhanced by tuning parameters.

Abstract

We design a quantum battery made up of bosons or fermions in an ultracold-atom setup, described by Fermi-Hubbard and Bose-Hubbard models, respectively. We compare the performance of bosons and fermions to determine which can function as a quantum battery more effectively given a particular on-site interaction and initial state temperature. The performance of a quantum battery is quantified by the maximum energy stored per unit time over the evolution under an on-site charging Hamiltonian. We report that when the initial battery state is in the ground state, fermions outperform bosons in a certain configuration over a large range of on-site interactions which are shown analytically for a smaller number of lattice sites and numerically for a considerable number of sites. Bosons take the lead when the temperature is comparatively high in the initial state for a longer range of on-site interaction. We study a number of up and down fermions as well as the number of bosons per site to find the optimal filling factor for maximizing the average power of the battery. We also introduce disorder in both on-site and hopping parameters and demonstrate that the maximum average power is robust against impurities. Moreover, we identify a range of tuning parameters in the fermionic and bosonic systems where the disorder-enhanced power is observed.