Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in quantum devices for the production,
storage, and transfer of energy. This Colloquium concentrates on the field of quantum …

The seminal work by Sadi Carnot in the early nineteenth century provided the blueprint of a
reversible heat engine and the celebrated second law of thermodynamics eventually …

The rate at which matter emits or absorbs light can be modified by its environment, as
markedly exemplified by the widely studied phenomenon of superradiance. The reverse …

We propose to use a quantum spin chain as a device to store and release energy coherently
and we investigate the interplay between its internal correlations and outside decoherence …

The exactly solvable Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has recently received considerable
attention in both condensed matter and high energy physics because it describes quantum …

Quantum batteries are miniature energy storage devices and play a very important role in
quantum thermodynamics. In recent years, quantum batteries have been extensively …

We introduce an open quantum-battery protocol using dark states to achieve both
superextensive capacity and power density, with noninteracting spins coupled to a reservoir …

We investigate the charging process of quantum battery (QB) systems in an extended Dicke
model with both atomic interactions and an external driving field. We focus on the effects of …

We present a collision model for the charging of a quantum battery by identical
nonequilibrium qubit units. When the units are prepared in a mixture of energy eigenstates …

We investigate the optimal charging processes for several models of quantum batteries,
finding how to maximize the energy stored in a given battery with a finite-time modulation of …