Powerful harmonic charging in quantum batteries

Abstract: We consider a classical harmonic driving field as the energy charger for the quantum batteries, which consist of an ensemble of two-level atoms. The maximum stored energy and the final state are derived analytically with the optimal driving frequency. At the end of charging procedure, each of atoms is in the upper state and the batteries are charging completely, which exhibits a substantial improvement over the square-wave charger. Involving the interatomic correlations, we find that the repulsive couplings show an advantage in achieving fully charging with shorter charging period. However, the attractive interactions induce a negative effects on the charging, since the ground state undergoes a quantum phase transition from a separable state to a doubly degenerate state. Approaching to the phase transition regime, the maximum stored energy drops sharply from the fully-charging value. The phase transition favors to suppress the charging of the battery and prevents the final state to be a separable state due to quantum fluctuations in our quantum batteries.