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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 generalizations of the energy-time uncertainty relation for driven quantum systems. Using a geometric approach based on the Bures length between mixed quantum states, we obtain explicit expressions for the quantum speed limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 Sebastian Deffner , Eric Lutz

The variational quantum imaginary time evolution algorithm is efficient in finding the ground state of a quantum Hamiltonian. This algorithm involves solving a system of linear equations in a classical computer and the solution is then used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Gaurav Saxena , Ahmed Shalabi , Thi Ha Kyaw

Quantum speed limits set fundamental lower bounds on the time required for a quantum system to evolve between states. Traditional bounds, such as those by Mandelstam-Tamm and Margolus-Levitin, rely on state distinguishability and become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Ole Sönnerborn

The problem concerning the minimum time for an initial state to evolve up to a target state plays an important role in the Classic Optimal Control theory. In the quantum context, as quantum states are so sensitive to environmental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Alexandre Coutinho Lisboa , Jose Roberto Castilho Piqueira

Quantum metrology is a rapidly developing branch of quantum technologies. While various theories have been established on quantum metrology for Markovian processes, i.e., quantum channel estimation, quantum metrology for non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Anian Altherr , Yuxiang Yang

We investigate the relationship between quantum speed limit time and the non-Markovianity of an atom in structured environments. We show that there exists an inverse relation between them, which means that the non-Markovian feature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Maryam Hadipour , Soroush Haseli , Saeed Haddadi

The rate of the trace distance is used to evaluate quantum speed-up for arbitrary mixed states. Compared with some present methods, the approach based on trace distance can provide an optimal bound to the speed of the evolution. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Xiang Hao , Wenjiong Wu

Many current and near-future applications of quantum computing utilise parametric families of quantum circuits and variational methods to find optimal values for these parameters. Solving a quantum computational problem with such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen

We introduce measures of quantum coherence as the speed of evolution of a system under decoherence. That is, coherence is the ability to estimate a dephasing channel, quantified by the quantum Fisher information. We extend the analysis to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Benjamin Yadin , Pieter Bogaert , Cristian E. Susa , Davide Girolami

The study of quantum systems evolving from initial states to distinguishable, orthogonal final states is important for information processing applications such as quantum computing and quantum metrology. However, for most unitary evolutions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-19 Sam Morley-Short , Lawrence Rosenfeld , Pieter Kok

The quantum capacity of a noisy quantum channel determines the maximal rate at which we can code reliably over asymptotically many uses of the channel, and it characterizes the channel's ultimate ability to transmit quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Xin Wang

While recent breakthroughs in quantum computing promise the nascence of the quantum information age, quantum states remain delicate to control. Moreover, the required energy budget for large scale quantum applications has only sparely been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Maxwell Aifer , Sebastian Deffner

The quantum speed limit (QSL) refers to the maximum speed of a quantum system to evolve from an initial state to its orthogonal states. The bound on the QSL for Hermitian systems, for example the Mandelstam-Tamm (MT) and Margolus-Levitin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhanxi Wang , Xiaozhe Hao , X. X. Yi

Uncertainty in the initial conditions of dynamical systems can cause exponentially fast divergence of trajectories, a signature of deterministic chaos. Here, we derive a classical uncertainty relation that sets a speed limit on the rates of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-01 Swetamber Das , Jason R. Green

Finding minimal time and establishing the structure of the corresponding optimal controls which can transfer a given initial state of a quantum system into a given target state is a key problem of quantum control. In this work, this problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 L. V. Lokutsievskiy , A. N. Pechen , M. I. Zelikin

We use analytical and numerical calculations to obtain speed limits for various unitary quantum operations in multiqubit systems under typical experimental conditions. The operations that we consider include single-, two-, and three-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-01 S. Ashhab , P. C. de Groot , Franco Nori

We consider quantum formalism limited by the classical simulating computer with the fixed memory. The memory is redistributed in the course of modeling by the variation of the set of classical states and the accuracy of the representation…

General Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Yu. I. Ozhigov

The quantum speed limit (QSL), or the energy-time uncertainty relation, describes the fundamental maximum rate for quantum time evolution and has been regarded as being unique in quantum mechanics. In this study, we obtain a classical speed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Manaka Okuyama , Masayuki Ohzeki

An elementary proof is given of the bound on "ortogonalization time".

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Piotr Kosinski , Magdalena Zych