Gian Marcello Andolina

Scuola Normale Superiore

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Tuesday Oct 20, 2020 / 09:30-10:00 CEST

Quantum advantage in Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev batteries

The exactly-solvable Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has recently received considerable attention in both condensed matter and high energy physics because it describes quantum matter without quasiparticles, while being at the same time the holographic dual of a quantum black hole. In this talk, I will present SYK-based charging protocols of quantum batteries with N quantum cells. I will provide numerical evidence that the optimal charging power of our SYK quantum batteries displays a super-extensive scaling with N that stems from genuine quantum mechanical effects.