01-18-2022, 03:55 PM
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Sorry for thread-jacking the most recent EV post, but....
hardware.slashdot.org/story/22/01/17/2245249/proof-of-concept-verifies-physics-that-could-enable-quantum-batteries
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Atlas:
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For the first time, a team of scientists has now demonstrated the quantum mechanical principle of superabsorption that underpins quantum batteries in a proof-of-concept device. "Superabsorption is a quantum collective effect where transitions between the states of the molecules interfere constructively," .... Crucially this allows the combined molecules to absorb light more efficiently than if each molecule were acting individually." In a quantum battery, this phenomenon would have a very clear benefit. The more energy-storing molecules you have, the more efficiently they'll be able to absorb that energy -- in other words, the bigger you make the battery, the faster it will charge. At least, that's how it should work in theory. Superabsorption had yet to be demonstrated on a scale large enough to build quantum batteries, but the new study has now managed just that.
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Possibly they are conflating 'battery' and 'cell'?
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