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The Margolus-Levitin Theorem is a limitation on the minimal evolving time of a quantum system from its initial state to its orthogonal state. It also supplies a bound on the maximal operations or events can occur within a volume of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-05-29 Qiaojun Cao , Yi-Xin Chen , Jian-Long Li

Quantum speed limits such as the Mandelstam-Tamm or Margolus-Levitin bounds offer a quantitative formulation of the energy-time uncertainty principle that constrains dynamics over short times. We show that the spectral form factor, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Amit Vikram , Victor Galitski

The Mandelstam-Tamm quantum speed limit puts a bound on how fast a closed system in a pure state can evolve. In this paper, we derive several extensions of this quantum speed limit to closed systems in mixed states. We also compare the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Niklas Hörnedal , Dan Allan , Ole Sönnerborn

We establish a comprehensive theoretical framework for coherent quantum speed limits (QSLs), deriving fundamental bounds on the rate of quantum evolution that explicitly isolate the contribution of quantum coherence. By applying H\"older's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Xuhui Xiao , Hai Wang , Xingze Qiu

Quantum mechanics is an inherently linear theory. However, collective effects in many body quantum systems can give rise to effectively nonlinear dynamics. In the present work, we analyze whether and to what extent such nonlinear effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Sebastian Deffner

We derive a new quantum speed limit (QSL) for open quantum systems governed by Markovian dynamics. By analyzing the time derivative of the Bures angle between the initial pure state and its time-evolved state, we obtain an analytically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Kohei Kobayashi

We analyze the influence of relativistic effects on the minimum evolution time between two orthogonal states of a quantum system. Defining the initial state as an homogeneous superposition between two Hamiltonian eigenstates of an electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 David V. Villamizar , Eduardo I. Duzzioni

The new bound on quantum speed limit (in terms of relative purity) is derived by applying the original Mandelstam-Tamm one to the evolution in the space of Hilbert-Schmidt operators acting in the initial space of states. It is shown that it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Katarzyna Bolonek-Lason , Joanna Gonera , Piotr Kosinski

The quantum speed limit (QSL) is the theoretical lower limit of the time for a quantum system to evolve from a given state to another one. Interestingly, it has been shown that non-Markovianity can be used to speed-up the dynamics and to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Jose Teittinen , Sabrina Maniscalco

Starting from a geometric perspective, we derive a quantum speed limit for arbitrary open quantum evolution, which could be Markovian or non-Markovian, providing a fundamental bound on the time taken for the most general quantum dynamics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Francesco Campaioli , Felix A. Pollock , Kavan Modi

We present a class of generalized entropic quantum speed limits based on $\alpha$-$z$-R\'{e}nyi relative entropy, a real-valued, contractive, two-parameter family of distinguishability measures. The quantum speed limit (QSL) falls into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Jucelino Ferreira de Sousa , Diego Paiva Pires

In this work, we investigate the role of functionals of generalized fidelity measures in deriving quantum speed limits (QSLs) within a geometric approach. We establish a general theoretical framework and show that, once a specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Tristán M. Osán , Yanet Álvarez , Mariela Portesi , Pedro Walter Lamberti

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the set of parameters $\{r_{i}\}$ that provide the energy distribution of pure qutrits that evolve towards a distinguishable state at a finite time $\tau$, when evolving under an arbitrary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Francisco J. Sevilla , Andrea Valdés-Hernández , Alan J. Barrios

The quantum speed limit sets a bound on the minimum time required for a quantum system to evolve between two states. For open quantum systems this quantity depends on the dynamical map describing the time evolution in presence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-11 Jose Teittinen , Henri Lyyra , Sabrina Maniscalco

How multiple observables mutually influence their dynamics has been a crucial issue in statistical mechanics. We introduce a new concept, "quantum velocity limits," to establish a quantitative and rigorous theory for non-equilibrium quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-10 Ryusuke Hamazaki

Timing and phase resolution in satellite QKD, kilometre-scale gravitational-wave detectors, and space-borne clock networks hinge on quantum-speed limits (QSLs), yet benchmarks omit relativistic effects for coherent and squeezed probes. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Salman Sajad Wani , Aatif Kaisar Khan , Saif Al-Kuwari , Mir Faizal

Quantum speed limit time defines the limit on the minimum time required for a quantum system to evolve between two states. Investigation of bounds on speed limit time of quantum system under non-unitary evolution is of fundamental interest,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 K. G Paulson , Subhashish Banerjee , R. Srikanth

Recently, the notion of a quantum acceleration limit has been proposed for any unitary time evolution of quantum systems governed by arbitrary nonstationary Hamiltonians. This limit articulates that the rate of change over time of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Carlo Cafaro , Walid Redjem , Paul M. Alsing , Newshaw Bahreyni , Christian Corda

In this study, we investigate the bound on the speed of state transformation in the quantum and classical systems that are coupled to general environment with arbitrary coupling interactions. We show that a Mandelstam-Tamm type speed limit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Naoto Shiraishi , Keiji Saito

We theoretically study the geometric effect of quantum dynamical evolution in the presence of a nonequilibrium noisy environment. We derive the expression of the time dependent geometric phase in terms of the dynamical evolution and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Xiangji Cai , Ruixuan Meng , Yanhui Zhang , Lifei Wang