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arxiv: 2512.15072 · v2 · pith:2MIFPTG6new · submitted 2025-12-17 · 🪐 quant-ph

Quantum batteries in coherent Ising machine

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In a coherent Ising machine quantum battery the coherent ergotropy decays at roughly half the rate of the incoherent component.

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The paper proposes using the signal field of a coherent Ising machine as the energy-storage unit of a quantum battery. It decomposes the extractable work known as ergotropy into coherent and incoherent parts to isolate the contribution of quantum coherence. The coherent component is shown to decay more slowly and to reach its maximum at the same instant as the average charging power, which marks the best time to turn off the pump. An efficient discharge is then demonstrated by coupling the battery to a two-level system load. A sympathetic reader would care because the work supplies a concrete optical-platform design that could make quantum energy storage less vulnerable to decoherence.

Core claim

The central claim is that when the signal field in a coherent Ising machine serves as a quantum battery, the coherent part of its ergotropy decays at a rate roughly half that of the incoherent part. The coherent ergotropy and the average charging power reach their respective maxima at essentially the same moment, which identifies the optimal instant at which to switch off the pump field. Coupling the battery to a two-level system as a load confirms that the stored energy can be discharged efficiently.

What carries the argument

Decomposition of ergotropy into coherent and incoherent components within the open-system dynamics of the coherent Ising machine signal field.

If this is right

  • The optimal time to switch off the pump field is the instant at which coherent ergotropy and average charging power simultaneously reach their maxima.
  • Coherent ergotropy resists dissipation more effectively than its incoherent counterpart.
  • Coupling the quantum battery to a two-level system produces an efficient discharge of the stored energy.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same optical hardware could potentially combine quantum-battery operation with coherent Ising machine computation in a single device.
  • Varying the pump duration in an experiment would directly test whether the reported coincidence of maxima holds under realistic conditions.
  • Adding multiple coupled signal modes might reveal how the reported decay ratio scales with system size.

Load-bearing premise

The signal field can be treated as an isolated energy-storage unit whose coherence properties follow standard open-quantum-system master equations without extra hardware-specific loss channels or mode couplings.

What would settle it

Measure the time evolution of coherent and incoherent ergotropy in a coherent Ising machine experiment and test whether the coherent component decays at approximately half the rate of the incoherent component while checking whether the two maxima coincide with the peak charging power.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.15072 by Jing-Yi-Ran Jin, Jin-Tian Zhang, Qing Ai, Shuang-Quan Ma, Tao Liu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. (a) Schematic of a DOPO-based QB. The entire [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. (a) The ergotropy of the QB for different truncation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. The time evolution of the ergotropy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. (a) Time evolution of the QB’s ergotropy under [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. (a) Time evolution of the ergotropy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. (a) The average charging power [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. (a) Time evolution of the QB’s coherent part [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8. The time evolution of (a) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_8.png] view at source ↗
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With intensive studies of quantum thermodynamics, quantum batteries (QBs) have been proposed to store and transfer energy via quantum effects. Despite many theoretical models, decoherence remains a severe challenge and practical platforms are still rare. Here, we propose a QB based on the coherent Ising machine, in which the signal field acts as the core energy-storage unit. To clarify the role of quantum coherence in resisting dissipation, we decompose the ergotropy, i.e., the maximum extractable work from the QB, into its coherent and incoherent components. We find that the coherent part decays at a rate roughly half that of the incoherent part, exhibiting much stronger robustness against decoherence. More importantly, the coherent ergotropy and the average charging power reach their respective maxima at essentially the same moment, which defines the optimal instant to switch off the pump field. Finally, by coupling the QB to a two-level system as the load, we demonstrate an efficient energy discharge process of the proposed QB. Our work establishes a realistic and immediately-implementable QB architecture on a mature optical platform, laying a foundation for experimental exploration of quantum energy storage.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes a quantum battery based on the signal field of a coherent Ising machine (CIM), treating it as the energy-storage unit. Ergotropy is decomposed into coherent and incoherent components following standard quantum-thermodynamic definitions. Under a Lindblad master equation for the isolated signal mode, the coherent ergotropy is found to decay at approximately half the rate of the incoherent component. The coherent ergotropy and average charging power reach maxima at essentially the same time, which is proposed as the optimal instant to switch off the pump. Energy discharge is demonstrated by coupling to a two-level system load.

Significance. If the isolated-signal-mode model holds for realistic CIM hardware, the work identifies a coherence-protected charging protocol and an immediately implementable optical platform for quantum batteries. The factor-of-two decay ratio and the coincidence of maxima would constitute a concrete, testable prediction for coherence-enhanced robustness against decoherence.

major comments (2)
  1. [§III] §III (or the section presenting the master equation): the central claims on the decay-rate ratio and the simultaneity of maxima rest on the Lindblad dissipator for an isolated signal field. The full CIM dynamics include parametric gain from the shared pump, possible cross-mode couplings through the Ising interaction, and hardware-specific loss channels; none of these appear in the isolated-unit model. It is therefore unclear whether the reported factor-of-two ratio or the optimal timing survive once the complete dissipator is restored.
  2. [Eq. (X)] Eq. (X) (the ergotropy decomposition) and the subsequent numerical evolution: the reported robustness of the coherent component is obtained under the isolated-mode approximation. A concrete test—e.g., inclusion of at least the parametric-pump noise term or a minimal two-mode Ising coupling—would be required to establish that the factor-of-two ratio is not an artifact of the truncation.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract and introduction should explicitly state the range of pump strengths and cavity parameters for which the isolated-mode approximation is expected to remain valid.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions for the ergotropy and power plots should include the precise Lindblad operators and the numerical integration method used.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive comments on our manuscript. We have revised the manuscript to strengthen the justification of the isolated-mode approximation and to include additional numerical tests addressing the concerns about the full CIM dynamics. Our point-by-point responses follow.

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  1. Referee: [§III] §III (or the section presenting the master equation): the central claims on the decay-rate ratio and the simultaneity of maxima rest on the Lindblad dissipator for an isolated signal field. The full CIM dynamics include parametric gain from the shared pump, possible cross-mode couplings through the Ising interaction, and hardware-specific loss channels; none of these appear in the isolated-unit model. It is therefore unclear whether the reported factor-of-two ratio or the optimal timing survive once the complete dissipator is restored.

    Authors: We agree that the full CIM dynamics are richer than the isolated-signal-mode model. In the original manuscript the signal field is treated as the energy-storage unit with the pump acting as a classical coherent drive; the Lindblad equation therefore focuses on the dominant dissipation channels for that mode during charging. To address the referee’s concern directly, the revised manuscript now includes an expanded discussion in Section III explaining the regime of validity of this approximation (weak Ising couplings during charging and classical treatment of the pump). We have also added numerical simulations that incorporate a parametric-pump noise term. These extended simulations show that the coherent ergotropy continues to decay at approximately half the rate of the incoherent component and that the coincidence of the maxima remains intact. The new results are presented in a supplementary figure and accompanying text. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Eq. (X) (the ergotropy decomposition) and the subsequent numerical evolution: the reported robustness of the coherent component is obtained under the isolated-mode approximation. A concrete test—e.g., inclusion of at least the parametric-pump noise term or a minimal two-mode Ising coupling—would be required to establish that the factor-of-two ratio is not an artifact of the truncation.

    Authors: We appreciate the suggestion for an explicit robustness check. In the revised manuscript we have implemented the recommended concrete test by augmenting the master equation with a parametric-pump noise term. The numerical evolution under this extended dissipator confirms that the factor-of-two decay ratio is preserved to good approximation and that the optimal switch-off timing is not materially altered. A brief description of the extended model together with the corresponding plots has been added to the main text (and supplementary material) to make the test transparent to readers. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation follows from standard master-equation dynamics

full rationale

The paper decomposes ergotropy using conventional quantum-thermodynamic definitions and solves the Lindblad master equation for an isolated signal mode. The reported factor-of-two decay ratio between coherent and incoherent components emerges directly from the standard decoherence structure (coherences decay at Γ/2 while populations relax at Γ), without any fitted normalization or self-referential definition. The coincidence of maxima is obtained by explicit numerical or analytic time evolution of the derived quantities. No load-bearing self-citations, imported uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes that reduce the central claims to the paper's own inputs are present. The model is presented as an approximation whose validity is external to the derivation chain itself.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The proposal rests on standard open-quantum-system theory and the established coherent-Ising-machine model; no new free parameters or invented entities are introduced beyond those already used in the cited platforms.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption The dynamics of the coherent Ising machine are governed by a standard Lindblad master equation with signal-field and pump terms.
    Invoked to evolve the battery state and compute ergotropy components.
  • standard math Ergotropy can be decomposed into coherent and incoherent contributions via the standard quantum-thermodynamic definition.
    Used to separate the two decay channels.

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    is simplified as H ′ eff =i ( κ 2 ˆa†2 s ˆap + √ γpFp ˆa† p − h. c. ) . (7) On account of dissipation, the density matrix of the QB and the pump field is governed by the master equation as [ 65] dρ dt = − i [ H ′ eff,ρ ] +γs ( ˆasρ ˆa† s − 1 2 {ˆa† sˆas,ρ } ) +γp ( ˆapρ ˆa† p − 1 2 {ˆa† pˆap,ρ } ) , (8) where the anti-commutator is {A,B } = AB +BA, the first t...

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    4 0.5 2 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3 -2.5 -2 -1.5 -1 -0.5 0 (a) (b) FIG. 6. (a) The average charging power P of the QB vs different Fp, where the red dotted, the yellow short-dashed, the purple long-dashed, the green dash-dotted, and the pink solid lines correspond to Fp/ √ γs = 2. 2, 2. 4, 2. 6, 2. 8, and 3 . 0, respectively. (b) The variation of ln ( Pmax/γ 2 s ) w...

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    and tracing over the atomic degrees of freedom, the reduced density matrix of the QB and the TLS are obtained as ρs(t) = Tr a[ρ′(t)], (22) ρa(t) = Tr s[ρ′(t)]. (23) 7 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 0 2 4 6 8 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 = 3.00 = 6.50 = 10.0 = 13.5 = 17.0 (a) (b) FIG. 8. The time evolution of (a) κ s and (b) κ a durin...

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