Switchable coherent state stored quantum batteries with large ergotropies

TL;DR

This paper proposes a switchable quantum battery design that allows for lossless charging and energy monitoring, leveraging cavity and qubit interactions to store large ergotropy in a coherent state.

Contribution

It introduces a novel cavity-based quantum battery with switchable charging and non-destructive energy detection using eigenfrequency tuning.

Findings

The cavity-based QB can be switched on and off by adjusting the qubit eigenfrequency.

Stored energy can be non-destructively monitored via electromagnetic spectrum probing.

The design enables large ergotropy by storing coherent state energy, not just single photons.

Abstract

Quantum battery (QB) is a conceptually new energy storage and conversion device, which consists usually of a quantum charger and an energy store (called usually as the QB for simplicity). The demonstrated advantage of QB, over its classical counterpart, is that its charging efficiency can be significantly enhanced by using quantum entanglement resources. In this letter, we investigate alternatively how to realize the switchable charging and the lossless power detection of the charged QB. With the proposed QB configuration we show that, by adjusting the eigenfrequency of the qubit-based charger, the cavity-based QB can be switched on between the charging and power-off states and its stored energy can be non-destructively monitored by probing the transmitted spectrum of the external electromagnetic waves scattered by the qubit-based charger. As the qubit-based charger has never been excited, the proposed cavity-based QB could directly store the coherent state energy (rather than the single-photon one) and thus possess significantly large ergotropy. The physical realization of the proposed switchable QB configuration is demonstrated specifically with the experimental circuit quantum electrodynamical devices.