Fast charging of quantum battery assisted by noise

Abstract

We investigate the performance of a quantum battery exposed to local Markovian and non-Markovian dephasing noises. The battery is initially prepared as the ground state of a one-dimensional transverse XY model with open boundary condition and is charged (discharged) via interactions with local bosonic reservoirs. We show that in the transient regime, quantum battery (QB) can store energy faster when it is affected by local phase-flip or bit-flip Markovian noise compared to the case when there is no noise in the system. In both the charging and discharging processes, we report the enhancement in work-output when all the spins are affected by non-Markovian Ohmic bath both in transient and steady-state regimes, thereby showing a counter-intuitive advantage of decoherence in QB. Among all the system parameters, we find that if the system is prepared in the paramagnetic phase and is affected by the bit-flip noise, we get the maximum improvement both in Markovian and non-Markovian cases. Moreover, we show that the benefit due to noise persists even with the initial state prepared at a moderate temperature.Comment: 10 pages, 9 Figure