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arxiv: 2604.24409 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-27 · 🪐 quant-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech· nlin.CD

Impact of thermal and dissipative effects in a periodically-kicked quantum battery

Sebasti\'an V. Romero , Xi Chen , Yue Ban This is my paper

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classification 🪐 quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mechnlin.CD
keywords quantum batteriesFloquet systemskicked Ising modelergotropythermal effectsdissipationopen quantum systemsquantum thermodynamics
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Periodically kicked quantum batteries maintain robust charging under thermal and dissipative effects in specific regimes.

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This paper studies quantum batteries as energy storage devices in realistic open conditions using the kicked-Ising model as a solvable example. It initializes the system in thermal Gibbs states of the transverse-field Ising chain and then evolves it with periodic kicks while adding finite temperature and Markovian dissipation. Ergotropy serves as the key quantity to track how much work can be stored and later extracted. The authors map out driving and temperature ranges where performance holds up, showing that environmental noise does not always destroy the battery function. This matters for moving quantum energy storage from ideal theory toward devices that must operate amid decoherence and heat.

Core claim

Starting from Gibbs states of the transverse-field Ising model, the periodically kicked Ising chain under thermal and dissipative evolution exhibits substantial ergotropy in identified regimes of driving strength, frequency, and temperature, allowing characterization of injected energy, extractable work, and robustness windows via both analytic and numeric methods.

What carries the argument

The kicked-Ising model, a periodically driven spin chain initialized in Gibbs states, that incorporates thermal fluctuations and decoherence during Floquet evolution while using ergotropy to quantify stored and extractable energy.

If this is right

  • Charging protocols for quantum batteries can be optimized to lie inside the identified low-dissipation robustness windows.
  • Ergotropy serves as a practical diagnostic for evaluating battery performance when both thermal and decoherence effects are present.
  • The analytic and numeric framework developed for energy injection and extraction extends directly to other periodically driven open spin systems.
  • Finite temperature can be counteracted by appropriate choice of kicking parameters without eliminating net extractable work.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The robustness windows may guide design of periodic driving protocols that protect other quantum resources, such as coherence in quantum sensors or gates, against similar environmental noise.
  • Testing the same model on platforms with tunable non-Markovian baths could reveal whether memory effects enlarge or shrink the identified robust regimes.
  • If the model predictions hold experimentally, periodic kicking could become a general tool for mitigating dissipation in small-scale quantum thermodynamic devices.

Load-bearing premise

The kicked-Ising model initialized in Gibbs states of the transverse-field Ising model accurately captures the dynamics of realistic open Floquet quantum batteries under thermal and dissipative effects.

What would settle it

An experiment on a controllable kicked spin system (such as trapped ions) that measures ergotropy across temperature and dissipation strengths and finds either no robust regimes or quantitative mismatch with the model's predicted windows.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.24409 by Sebasti\'an V. Romero, Xi Chen, Yue Ban.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. Schematic of a dissipative kicked-Ising QB. Start view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. Normalized injected energies using ( view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. (a) Normalized injected energies (solid) and ergotropies (dash-dotted) in the presence of dephasing using ( view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. (a) Normalized injected energies (solid) and ergotropies (dash-dotted) in the presence of thermal dissipation using view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Quantum batteries (QBs) have emerged as a promising route for fast energy storage and on-chip power supply in quantum devices. Given the limited analytical understanding of open Floquet QBs, we employ the kicked-Ising model as a tractable platform to systematically study its performance under realistic conditions, including finite temperature effects and environmental dissipation. Starting from Gibbs states of the transverse-field Ising model, we incorporate thermal and decoherence effects along the evolution, using both analytical and numerical approaches. Taking ergotropy as a central figure of merit, we characterize the injected and extractable energy, and identify regimes where charging remains robust despite environmental effects. Our results provide a systematic framework for assessing QB performance under thermal and dissipative effects.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

1 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript studies the performance of a periodically-kicked quantum battery realized via the kicked-Ising model under thermal and dissipative effects. It initializes the system in Gibbs states of the transverse-field Ising model, incorporates finite-temperature and decoherence effects during the Floquet evolution using both analytical and numerical methods, and employs ergotropy as the primary figure of merit to quantify injected and extractable energy while identifying parameter regimes in which charging remains robust against environmental noise.

Significance. If the reported robust regimes are quantitatively substantiated, the work supplies a concrete, tractable platform for assessing open Floquet quantum batteries, which is relevant for the development of realistic quantum energy-storage devices. The explicit scoping of the kicked-Ising model as a solvable testbed rather than a universal proxy, together with the use of ergotropy, strengthens the contribution.

major comments (1)
  1. Abstract and §3 (Results): the central claim that 'regimes where charging remains robust' have been identified is not supported by any displayed derivations, numerical data, error bars, or specific parameter values for ergotropy versus temperature or dissipation strength. Without these, the identification of robust regimes cannot be verified or reproduced.
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract states that both analytical and numerical approaches are employed but does not indicate which quantities are obtained analytically versus numerically or which approximations are used; this should be clarified in the main text.
  2. Notation for the kick strength, transverse field, and dissipation rates should be introduced once and used consistently; currently the abstract mixes 'thermal and dissipative effects' without defining the corresponding operators or master-equation terms.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We are grateful to the referee for the careful reading of our manuscript and the constructive comments provided. We respond to the major comment as follows, and will make the necessary revisions to strengthen the presentation of our results.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [—] Abstract and §3 (Results): the central claim that 'regimes where charging remains robust' have been identified is not supported by any displayed derivations, numerical data, error bars, or specific parameter values for ergotropy versus temperature or dissipation strength. Without these, the identification of robust regimes cannot be verified or reproduced.

    Authors: We acknowledge the validity of this observation. Although our manuscript employs both analytical and numerical methods to study the ergotropy under thermal and dissipative effects, we agree that the specific supporting data, such as plots of ergotropy versus temperature and dissipation strength with error bars and concrete parameter values, are not adequately displayed to allow verification of the robust regimes. In the revised version of the manuscript, we will include additional figures and tables in §3 that explicitly show these quantities for the identified parameter regimes. This will provide the necessary quantitative substantiation for the claims made in the abstract and results section. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity detected

full rationale

The paper selects the kicked-Ising model explicitly as a tractable platform rather than claiming it derives from or equals the target physical system. It begins with standard Gibbs states of the transverse-field Ising model, applies periodic kicks, and incorporates thermal/dissipative effects via established master-equation and numerical methods while tracking the independently defined ergotropy. No equation reduces a claimed prediction to a fitted parameter or self-referential definition, no load-bearing uniqueness theorem is imported via self-citation, and no ansatz is smuggled through prior work by the same authors. The regime-identification results therefore remain model-specific outputs rather than tautological restatements of the inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No free parameters, axioms, or invented entities can be identified from the abstract alone; full text would be required to audit the model assumptions and any fitted quantities.

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