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In the geometry of quantum evolutions, a geodesic path is viewed as a path of minimal statistical length connecting two pure quantum states along which the maximal number of statistically distinguishable states is minimum. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Carlo Cafaro , Paul M. Alsing

We derive universal thermodynamic inequalities that bound from below the moments of first-passage times of stochastic currents in nonequilibrium stationary states of Markov jump processes in the limit where the thresholds that define the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-03 Izaak Neri

The quantum speed limit is a fundamental upper bound on the speed of quantum evolution. However, the actual mathematical expression of this fundamental limit depends on the choice of a measure of distinguishability of quantum states. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 Sebastian Deffner

Bounds of the minimum evolution time between two distinguishable states of a system can help to assess the maximal speed of quantum computers and communication channels. We study the quantum speed limit time of a composite quantum states in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-16 Ying-Jie Zhang , Wei Han , Yun-Jie Xia , Ke-Xia Jiang , Jun-Peng Cao , Heng Fan

We establish the minimum time it takes for an initial state of mean energy E and energy spread DE to move from its initial configuration by a predetermined amount. Distances in Hilbert space are estimated by the fidelity between the initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vittorio Giovannetti , Seth Lloyd , Lorenzo Maccone

Any physical system evolves at a finite speed that is constrained not only by the energetic cost but also by the topological structure of the underlying dynamics. In this Letter, by considering such structural information, we derive a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 Tan Van Vu , Keiji Saito

Standard quantum speed limits presuppose exactly known parameters, overestimating operational speed under calibration uncertainty. We introduce a projected speed limit based on the quantum Fisher information that profiles out these nuisance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Salman Sajad Wani , Saif Al-Kuwari

A quantum mechanical limit on the speed of orthogonality evolution justifies the last remaining assumption in Caianiello's derivation of the maximal acceleration. The limit is perfectly compatible with the behaviour of superconductors of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 G. Papini

The geometrical description of Quantum Mechanics is reviewed and proposed as an alternative picture to the standard ones. The basic notions of observables, states, evolution and composition of systems are analised from this perspective, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Florio M. Ciaglia , Alberto Ibort , Giuseppe Marmo

We derive a quantum speed limit for mixed quantum states using the stronger uncertainty relation for mixed quantum states and unitary evolution. We also show that this bound can be optimized over different choices of operators for obtaining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Shrobona Bagchi , Dimpi Thakuria , Arun Kumar Pati

We establish a previously unexplored conservation law for the Quantum Fisher Information Matrix (QFIM) expressed as follows; when the QFIM is constructed from a set of observables closed under commutation, i.e., a Lie algebra, the spectrum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Christopher Wilson , John Drew Wilson , Luke Coffman , Shah Saad Alam , Murray J. Holland

The quantum speed limit sets a fundamental restriction on the evolution time of quantum systems. We explore the relationship between quantum imaginarity and the quantum speed limit by utilizing measures such as relative entropy, trace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Dong-Ping Xuan , Zhong-Xi Shen , Wen Zhou , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

We construct a general measure for detecting the quantum speedup in both closed and open systems. The speed measure is based on the changing rate of the position of quantum states on a manifold with appropriate monotone Riemannian metrics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-07 Zhen-Yu Xu

In this paper, we derive sharp lower bounds, also known as quantum speed limits, for the time it takes to transform a quantum system into a state such that an observable assumes its lowest average value. We assume that the system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Dan Allan , Niklas Hörnedal , Ole Andersson

In the geometry of quantum-mechanical processes, the time-varying curvature coefficient of a quantum evolution is specified by the magnitude squared of the covariant derivative of the tangent vector to the state vector. In particular, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Carlo Cafaro , Leonardo Rossetti , Paul M. Alsing

We study characteristics of quantum evolution which can be called curvature and torsion. The curvature shows a deviation of the state vector in quantum evolution from the geodesic line. The torsion shows a deviation of state vector from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-03 H. P. Laba , V. M. Tkachuk

What can one infer about the dynamical evolution of quantum systems just by symmetry considerations? For Markovian dynamics in finite dimensions, we present a simple construction that assigns to each symmetry of the generator a family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Georgios Styliaris , Paolo Zanardi

The concept of quantum speed limit-time (QSL) was initially introduced as a lower bound to the time interval that a given initial state $\psi_I$ may need so as to evolve into a state orthogonal to itself. Recently [V. Giovannetti, S. Lloyd,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Borrás , M. Casas , A. R. Plastino , A. Plastino

The space of density matrices is embedded in a Euclidean space to deduce the dynamical equation satisfied by the state of an open quantum system. The Euclidean norm is used to obtain an explicit expression for the speed of the evolution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Dorje C Brody , Bradley Longstaff

We compare two approaches to non-Markovian quantum evolution: one based on the concept of divisible maps and the other one based on distinguishability of quantum states. The former concept is fully characterized in terms of local generator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Dariusz Chruściński , Filip A. Wudarski