High-efficiency and noise-immune quantum battery

Abstract: Nowadays, quantum batteries (QBs) have been designed to outperform their classical counterparts by leveraging quantum advantages. For instance, the charging power greatly benefits from the entanglement generation of a collective charging scheme (e.g., the Dicke QB), especially in the ultrastrong coupling (USC) regime or even larger. However, apart from the fragility of the QB under intrinsic decoherence effects, another critical drawback emerges inevitably. Specifically, the non-negligible counter-rotating (CR) term in the USC regime would induce coherence in the energy basis of QB, thus remarkably degrading the charging efficiency. To tackle these challenges, we propose a high-efficiency and noise-immune QB boosted by dynamical modulation. It is demonstrated that the time-varying modulation can effectively reduce the CR coupling, resulting in a notable improvement in charging efficiency. Particularly, for a judicious choice of modulation parameters that entirely eliminate the CR interaction, the Dicke QB can be charged optimally, resembling the behavior of the Tavis-Cummings QB. In the subsequent storage process, beyond the natural robustness to pure dephasing noise, our scenario is also highly resilient to the dissipation noise and thus can achieve perfect energy storage by effective bath engineering. While feasible with current experimental platforms, our proposal offers a solid foundation for the implementation of a powerful QB and may drastically promote the development of energy storage and delivery techniques in the future.