Entanglement in Bipartite Quantum Systems with Fast Local Unitary Control

The well-known Schmidt decomposition, or equivalently, the complex singular value decomposition, states that a pure quantum state of a bipartite system can always be brought into a "diagonal" form using local unitary transformations. In this work we consider a finite-dimensional closed bipartite system with fast local unitary control. In this setting one can define a reduced control system on the singular values of the state which is equivalent to the original control system. We explicitly describe this reduced control system and prove equivalence to the original system. Moreover, using the reduced control system, we prove that the original system is controllable and stabilizable and we deduce quantum speed limits. We also treat the fermionic and bosonic cases in parallel, which are related to the Autonne-Takagi and Hua factorization respectively.