As in the past years, and always with the goal of promoting the original contributions of young researchers on relevant research topics, the SPIN institute has assigned the Best Young Research Article (BYRA) award in 2025 to a scientist under the age of 35 who is part of the SPIN community.
This year’s BYRA edition selected Riccardo Grazi as winner for his paper “Controlling Energy Storage Crossing Quantum Phase Transitions in an Integrable Spin Quantum Battery” published in Physical Review Letters (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.197001).
In this article, Riccardo and co-workers have theoretically shown a connection between the zero temperature properties of complex quantum systems and their ability to store energy. More specifically, they have considered quantum systems being characterized, at very low temperatures, by competing orders such as paramagnetism and ferromagnetism. Such competition can be exploited to achieve an enhancement of the stability of the energy trapped into the quantum systems. Their results might lead to interesting advancements in the development of quantum batteries, devices that are able to store energy at the quantum level and that can hence naturally be integrated in quantum platforms relevant for quantum technological applications.
The 2025 BYRA award was presented during the recent SPIN workshop held in Naples on 24–25 November where Riccardo gave an oral presentation summarizing the main achievements discussed in the paper.
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