- Accepted Paper
Charging quantum batteries with chiral squeezing
Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 1 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/zg87-t4y5
Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 1 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/zg87-t4y5
We propose a quantum-battery charger based on a driven bosonic Kitaev chain (BKC), where chiral squeezing converts passive input fluctuations into ordered, non-passive battery states. While a coherent input pulse exhibits phase-sensitive chiral transport, the charging dynamics is dominated by bidirectionally propagating fluctuations that are amplified and squeezed into orthogonal quadratures at opposite chain ends. In contrast to conventional phase-preserving amplifiers, our scheme stores largely extractable energy and achieves a work-like signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) near unity, even in the presence of thermal noise and moderate symmetry-preserving disorder.
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