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    Collective dynamics versus entanglement in quantum battery performance

    Rohit Kumar Shukla1,*, Sunil K. Mishra2,†, and Ujjwal Sen3,‡

    • *Contact author: rohitkrshukla.rs.phy17@itbhu.ac.in
    • †Contact author: sunilkm.app@iitbhu.ac.in
    • ‡Contact author: ujjwal@hri.res.in

    Phys. Rev. A 114, 022624 – Published 31 August, 2026

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/595w-rwr4

    Abstract

    We investigate charging dynamics in many-body quantum batteries by examining the relationship between instantaneous charging power and the emergence of bipartite, tripartite, and multipartite quantum correlations across different battery-charger configurations. We find that the charging power reaches its maximum before the correlation measures peak, revealing a temporal separation between rapid energy transfer and the buildup of quantum correlations. We further study the role of interaction structure using local and many-body charging Hamiltonians under both unconstrained and constrained charging Hamiltonians, in which the total available charging resources are fixed to scale proportionally with the number of spins, thereby isolating the influence of interaction geometry and particle participation on the charging dynamics. In the unconstrained case, the enhanced charging energy observed for higher-order interactions originates primarily from the larger energy scale of the charging Hamiltonian. Under constrained conditions, however, increasing the interaction order alone provides no advantage over parallel charging when interaction and local spin-flip contributions are balanced, whereas interaction-dominated protocols significantly enhance charging performance, highlighting the importance of collective many-body dynamics. Fully collective interactions are found to yield the largest enhancement in charging power together with stronger multipartite correlations, while partially collective interactions provide only limited improvements. Finally, extending the interaction range through next-nearest-neighbor couplings suppresses charging power, demonstrating that, under constrained energetic resources, charging performance is governed primarily by interaction structure, particle participation, and collective many-body dynamics rather than by interaction order alone.

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