Stable Long-Range Charging and Boundary-Mediated Thresholds in a Waveguide Quantum Battery

Abstract:The waveguide-integrated architecture holds promise for scalable on-chip integration of a charger, a transmission channel, and a quantum battery in a modular, independently optimizable design. We investigate a minimal charging configuration consisting of two emitters coupled to a semi-infinite waveguide and identify the optimal charging mechanism, wherein non-Markovian dynamics driven by out-of-band bound states give rise to single-frequency oscillations of the stored energy. We show that near-unity charging efficiency is achievable at weak to moderate coupling strengths via detuning control, provided that the battery-to-boundary separation $n$ is less than three times the charger-to-boundary separation $m$ ($n<3m$)---a constraint imposed by the mirror-induced feedback---while the average charging power decays exponentially with the spatial separation $n-m$. These findings offer useful insights for monolithic solid-state quantum energy storage and transport.

arXiv:2609.32580 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2609.32580v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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