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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, furnishing a lower bound on the required time for the evolution of a quantum system through the state space, imposes an ultimate natural limitation to the dynamics of physical devices. Quantum absorption refrigerators,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Avijit Misra , Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Arun Kumar Pati

In the context of quantum speed limits, it has been shown that the minimum time required to cause a desired state conversion via the open quantum dynamics can be estimated using the entropy production. However, the established entropy-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Kotaro Sekiguchi , Satoshi Nakajima , Ken Funo , Hiroyasu Tajima

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

How fast an observable can evolve in time is answered by so-called ``observable speed limit". Here, we prove a stronger version of the observable speed limit and show that the previously obtained bound is a special case of the new bound.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Divyansh Shrimali , Biswaranjan Panda , Arun Kumar Pati

The minimum evolution time between multi-qubit quantum states is estimated for non-Markovian quantum channels. We consider the maximally coherent pure and mixed states as well as multi-qubit $X$ states as initial states and discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 K. G. Paulson , Subhashish Banerjee

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

The Bremermann-Bekenstein bound is a fundamental bound on the maximal rate with which information can be transmitted. However, its derivation relies on rather weak estimates and plausibility arguments, which make the application of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Thiago V. Acconcia , Sebastian Deffner

In quantum adiabatic evolution algorithms, the quantum computer follows the ground state of a slowly varying Hamiltonian. The ground state of the initial Hamiltonian is easy to construct; the ground state of the final Hamiltonian encodes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann

The quantum speed limit (QSL) of the Jaynes-Cummings model with detuning for arbitrary initial states is investigated. We mainly focus on the influences of the detuning, width of Lorentzian spectral density, and coherence of the initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Yasin Shahri , Maryam Hadipour , Saeed Haddadi , Hazhir Dolatkhah , Soroush Haseli

For Schroedinger equations with both time-independent and time-dependent Kato potentials, we give a simple proof of the maximal speed bound. The latter states that the probability to find the quantum system outside the ball of radius…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Jack Arbunich , Fabio Pusateri , Israel Michael Sigal , Avraham Soffer

We decompose the quantum adiabatic evolution as the products of gauge invariant unitary operators and obtain the exact nonadiabatic correction in the adiabatic approximation. A necessary and sufficient condition that leads to adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 Zhen-Yu Wang , Martin B. Plenio

Existing quantum speed limits for controlled open quantum systems depend on the specified trajectory. For example, lower bounds on quantum annealing times in the presence of dissipation depend explicitly on the chosen annealing schedule.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 James B. Larsen , Tameem Albash , Alicia B. Magann , Christian Arenz

This paper reports on some new inequalities of Margolus-Levitin-Mandelstam-Tamm-type involving the speed of quantum evolution between two orthogonal pure states. The clear determinant of the qualitative behavior of this time scale is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ulvi Yurtsever

Quantum Speed Limits (QSLs) rule the minimum time for a quantum state to evolve into a distinguishable state in an arbitrary physical process. These fundamental results constrain a notion of distance travelled by the quantum state, known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Adolfo del Campo

Quantum adiabatic evolution is a dynamical evolution of a quantum system under slow external driving. According to the quantum adiabatic theorem, no transitions occur between non-degenerate instantaneous eigen-energy levels in such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Qi Zhang , Jiangbin Gong , Biao Wu

Deriving minimum evolution times is of paramount importance in quantum mechanics. Bounds on the speed of evolution are given by the so called quantum speed limit (QSL). In this work we use quantum optimal control methods to study the QSL…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 P. M. Poggi , F. C. Lombardo , D. A. Wisniacki

We introduce the concept of Magic Subspaces for the control of dissipative N- level quantum systems whose dynamics are governed by Lindblad equation. For a given purity, these subspaces can be defined as the set of density matrices for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 A. A. Diaz V. , V. Martikyan , S. J. Glaser , D. Sugny

The adiabatic theorem provides sufficient conditions for the time needed to prepare a target ground state. While it is possible to prepare a target state much faster with more general quantum annealing protocols, rigorous results beyond the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Luis Pedro García-Pintos , Lucas T. Brady , Jacob Bringewatt , Yi-Kai Liu

We generalize the standard quantum adiabatic approximation to the case of open quantum systems. We define the adiabatic limit of an open quantum system as the regime in which its dynamical superoperator can be decomposed in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Sarandy , D. A. Lidar