Quantum battery in nonequilibrium reservoirs

Abstract

We investigate a quantum battery system in which the coupled two-level charger and battery are immersed in nonequilbrium boson or fermion reservoirs. Based on the Redfield master equation, we consider the change of the energy spectrum induced by the external driving to the charger. When the charger and the battery possess the same transition frequency and the charger is driven in resonance, a bistability can emerge with the closure of the Liouvillian gap. As a result, the efficiency of the battery depends on the initial state of the charger-battery system, and certain types of entangled initial states can enhance the efficiency. In the non-resonance driving regime, the efficiency of the quantum battery can be optimized by the compensation mechanism for both the boson and fermion reservoirs. Our investigation is helpful to the design and optimization of quantum battery in the nonequlibrium open system.