Metastability-Induced Solid-State Quantum Batteries for Powering Microwave Quantum Electronics

TL;DR

This paper introduces a solid-state quantum battery leveraging metastable states for stable, efficient energy storage and controlled microwave emission, demonstrating robustness against dissipation in a practical organic maser platform.

Contribution

It presents a novel quantum battery design utilizing metastability for stable charging and energy release, advancing practical quantum energy storage devices.

Findings

Metastable states enable stable superextensive charging.

Controlled work extraction allows on-demand microwave emission.

Demonstrates robustness of quantum batteries against energy losses.

Abstract

Metastability is ubiquitous in diverse complex systems. In open quantum systems, metastability offers protection against dissipation and decoherence, yet its application in quantum batteries remains unexplored. We propose a solid-state open quantum battery where metastable states enable stable superextensive charging without complicated protocols and energy storage with extended lifetime. Using a realistic organic maser platform, we show the controllable manner of the work extraction from the quantum battery, which can be exploited for on-demand coherent microwave emission at room temperature. These results not only demonstrate the usefulness of metastability for developing the quantum batteries robust against energy losses, but also provide a paradigm of the practical quantum device powered up by quantum batteries.