Purity and bound energy in ancilla-assisted work extraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19945v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:42:49 GMT
• Title: Purity and bound energy in ancilla-assisted work extraction
• Abstract summary: We investigate ancilla-assisted work extraction in quantum batteries.<n>We show that the bound energy of the reduced system provides a tight upper bound to the daemonic gain.<n>We introduce a purity-based gain that qualitatively predicts the daemonic gain without requiring explicit optimization over measurements.
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• Abstract: We investigate ancilla-assisted work extraction in quantum batteries from the perspective of bound energy and purity. We show that the bound energy of the reduced system provides a tight upper bound to the daemonic gain and that this bound is saturated for globally pure system--ancilla states. Motivated by this relation, we introduce a purity-based gain that qualitatively predicts the daemonic gain without requiring explicit optimization over measurements. We further introduce a protocol to analyze the role of dissipation and intrinsic interactions on daemonic gain. Under a collective environment, dissipation can dynamically generate and stabilize finite daemonic gain through environment-induced correlations. In interacting systems, level crossings and spectral restructuring strongly modify the attainable gain through their influence on the accessible bound energy. Our results demonstrate that daemonic gain is governed not only by correlations, but also by the spectral structure of the underlying Hamiltonian and information loss captured by bound energy and purity.

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