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Quantum speed limits (QSLs) impose fundamental constraints on the evolution speed of quantum systems. Traditionally, the Mandelstam-Tamm (MT) and Margolus-Levitin (ML) bounds have been widely employed, relying on the standard deviation and…

Quantum speed limits set the maximal pace of state evolution. Two well-known limits exist for a unitary time-independent Hamiltonian: the Mandelstam-Tamm and Margolus-Levitin bounds. The former restricts the rate according to the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Gal Ness , Andrea Alberti , Yoav Sagi

Quantum speed limits set an upper bound to the rate at which a quantum system can evolve. Adopting a phase-space approach we explore quantum speed limits across the quantum to classical transition and identify equivalent bounds in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 B. Shanahan , A. Chenu , N. Margolus , A. del Campo

We study the minimum time related to the quantum speed limit that characterizes the evolution of an open quantum system with the help of a simple model in the short and long time limits. We compare in particular the situation corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Jean Richert , Tarek Khalil

Inequalities of Mandelstam-Tamm and Margolus-Levitin type provide lower bounds on the time it takes for a quantum system to evolve from one state into another. Knowledge of such bounds, called quantum speed limits, is of utmost importance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-08 Ole Andersson , Hoshang Heydari

Speed of state transitions in macroscopic systems is a crucial concept for foundations of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics as well as various applications in quantum technology represented by optimal quantum control. While extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-29 Ryusuke Hamazaki

Quantum physics dictates fundamental speed limits during time evolution. We present a quantum speed limit governing the generation of nonclassicality and the mutual incompatibility of two states connected by time evolution. This result is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Jun Jing , Lian-Ao Wu , Adolfo del Campo

The dynamics of an open quantum system with balanced gain and loss is not described by a PT-symmetric Hamiltonian but rather by Lindblad operators. Nevertheless the phenomenon of PT-symmetry breaking and the impact of exceptional points can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Dorje C. Brody

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

Quantum mechanics dictates bounds for the minimal evolution time between predetermined initial and final states. Several of these Quantum Speed Limit (QSL) bounds were derived for non-unitary dynamics using different approaches. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Nicolás Mirkin , Fabricio Toscano , Diego A. Wisniacki

We prove fundamental rigorous bounds on the speed of quantum evolution for a quantum system coupled to a thermal bath. The bounds are formulated in terms of expectation values of few-body observables derived from the system-bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 N. Il'in , A. Aristova , O. Lychkovskiy

The pace of evolution of physical systems is fundamentally constrained by quantum speed limits (QSL), which have found broad applications in quantum science and technology. We consider the speed of evolution for quantum systems undergoing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Luis Pedro García-Pintos , Adolfo del Campo

In the Schr{\"o}dinger picture, the state of a quantum system evolves in time and the quantum speed limit describes how fast the state of a quantum system evolves from an initial state to a final state. However, in the Heisenberg picture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Brij Mohan , Arun Kumar Pati

The attempt to gain a theoretical understanding of the concept of time in quantum mechanics has triggered significant progress towards the search for faster and more efficient quantum technologies. One of such advances consists in the…

One often needs to estimate how fast an evolving state of a quantum system can depart from some target state or target subspace of a Hilbert space. Such estimates are known as quantum speed limits. We derive a quantum speed limit for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 N. Il`in , O. Lychkovskiy

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

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

One of the most widely known building blocks of modern physics is Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle. Among the different statements of this fundamental property of the full quantum mechanical nature of physical reality, the uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Sebastian Deffner , Steve Campbell

We report a family of quantum speed limits (QSLs) that give evolution time lower bounds between an initial and a final state whose separation is described by a certain representation basis dependent norm derived from the weighted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 H. F. Chau , Jinjie Li

The Mandelstam-Tamm and Margolus-Levitin inequalities play an important role in the study of quantum mechanical processes in Nature, since they provide general limits on the speed of dynamical evolution. However, to date there has been only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 Philip J. Jones , Pieter Kok