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Quantum speed limits are relations yielding lower bounds on the evolution time of quantum systems. These results have been generalized in some ways, in particular by including evolutions to non-orthogonal states. However, there was a gap in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-17 M. M. Taddei

We introduce the notion of reverse quantum speed limit for arbitrary quantum evolution which answers a fundamental question: ``how slow a quantum system can evolve in time?" Using the geometrical approach to quantum mechanics, the reverse…

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

In quantum control, quantum speed limits provide fundamental lower bounds on the time that is needed to implement certain unitary transformations. Using Lie algebraic methods, we link these speed limits to symmetries of the control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Marco Wiedmann , Daniel Burgarth

I report a tight upper bound of the maximum speed of evolution from one quantum state $\rho$ to another $\rho'$ with fidelity $F(\rho,\rho')$ less than or equal to an arbitrary but fixed value under the action of a time-independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 H. F. Chau

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

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

The speed of evolution between perfectly distinguishable states is thoroughly analyzed in a closed three-level (qutrit) quantum system. Considering an evolution under an arbitrary time-independent Hamiltonian, we fully characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jesica Espino-González , Francisco J. Sevilla , Andrea Valdés-Hernández

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

Given the initial and final states of a quantum system, the speed of transportation of state vector in the projective Hilbert space governs the quantum speed limit. Here, we ask the question what happens to the quantum speed limit under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Abhay Srivastav , Vivek Pandey , Arun K Pati

Adiabatic passage employs a slowly varying time-dependent Hamiltonian to control the evolution of a quantum system along the Hamiltonian eigenstates. For processes of finite duration, the exact time evolving state may deviate from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Albert Benseny , Klaus Mølmer

Quantum theory sets a bound on the minimal time evolution between initial and target states. This bound is called as quantum speed limit time. It is used to quantify maximal speed of quantum evolution. The quantum evolution will be faster,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 S. Haseli , S. Salimi , H. Dolatkhah , A. S. Khorashad

The quantum speed limit is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics, which aims at finding the minimum time scale or the maximum dynamical speed for some fixed targets. In a large number of studies in this field, the construction of valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Yanyan Shao , Bo Liu , Mao Zhang , Haidong Yuan , Jing Liu

Quantum speed limit is a fundamental speed limit for the evolution of quantum states. It is the single-most important interpretation of the time energy uncertainty relation. Recently the speed limit of quantum correlations have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Shrobona Bagchi

The quantum speed limit provides a fundamental bound on how fast a quantum system can evolve between the initial and the final states under any physical operation. The celebrated Mandelstam-Tamm (MT) bound has been widely studied for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Shrobona Bagchi , Abhay Srivastav , Arun Kumar Pati

Quantum mechanics establishes a fundamental bound for the minimum evolution time between two states of a given system. Known as the quantum speed limit (QSL), it is a useful tool in the context of quantum control, where the speed of some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-25 P. M. Poggi , F. C. Lombardo , D. A. Wisniacki

We analyze state preparation within a restricted space of local control parameters between adiabatically connected states of control Hamiltonians. We formulate a conjecture that the time integral of energy fluctuations over the protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 Marin Bukov , Dries Sels , Anatoli Polkovnikov

Quantum speed limits are the boundaries that define how quickly one quantum state can transform into another. Instead of focusing on the transformation between pairs of states, we provide bounds on the speed limit of quantum evolution by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Abolfazl Farmanian , Vahid Karimipour

Quantum theory sets the bound on the minimal evolution time between initial and final states of the quantum system. This minimal evolution time can be used to specify the maximal speed of the evolution in open and closed quantum systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 S. Haseli

Quantum mechanics imposes a fundamental bound on the minimum time required for the quantum systems to evolve between two states of interest. This bound introduces a limit on the speed of the dynamical evolution of the systems, known as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-19 Yusef Maleki , Alireza Maleki

We investigate the generic bound on the minimal evolution time of the open dynamical quantum system. This quantum speed limit time is applicable to both mixed and pure initial states. We then apply this result to the damped Jaynes-Cummings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 Yingjie Zhang , Wei Han , Yunjie Xia , Junpeng Cao , Heng Fan