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The minimal time a system requires to transform from an initial state to target state is defined as the quantum speed limit time. quantum speed limit time can be applied to quantify the maximum speed of the evolution of a quantum system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 S. Haseli

We introduce a framework for computing time-dependent quantum transition rates (QTRs) that describe the pace of evolution of a quantum state from a given subspace to a target subspace. QTRs are expressed in terms of flux-flux correlators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Adolfo del Campo , András Grabarits , Dmitrii Makarov , Seong-Ho Shinn

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

The energy-time uncertainty relation limits the maximum speed of quantum system evolution and is crucial for determining whether quantum tasks can be accelerated. However, multiparticle quantum speed limits have not been experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Rui-Heng Miao , Zhao-Di Liu , Chen-Xi Ning , Yu-Cong Hu , Hao Zhang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

The laws of quantum physics place a limit on the speed of computation. In particular, the evolution time of a system from an initial state to a final state cannot be arbitrarily short. Bounds on the speed of evolution for unitary dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Zihao Hu , Haidong Yuan , Zigui Zhang , Chi-Hang Fred Fung , Zibo Miao

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

The authors of the comment[Phys. Rev. A 97, 046101 (2018)] raise that the inconsistency in calculating some common quantum-speed-limit (QSL) bounds, which is presented in our paper [Phys. Rev. A 95, 052118 (2017)], does not exist in their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 Xin Liu , Wei Wu , Chao Wang

Quantum speed limits provide upper bounds on the rate with which a quantum system can move away from its initial state. Here, we provide a different kind of speed limit, describing the divergence of a perturbed open system from its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Benjamin Yadin , Satoya Imai , Otfried Gühne

A remarkably simple result is derived for the minimal time $T_{\rm min}$ required to drive a general initial state to a final target state by a Landau-Zener type Hamiltonian or, equivalently, by time-dependent laser driving. The associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt

One of the fundamental physical limits on the speed of time evolution of a quantum state is known in the form of the celebrated Mandelstam-Tamm inequality. This inequality gives an answer to the question on how fast an isolated quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Sergio Albeverio , Alexander K. Motovilov

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

We analyze the influence of relativistic effects on the minimum evolution time between two orthogonal states of a quantum system. Defining the initial state as an homogeneous superposition between two Hamiltonian eigenstates of an electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 David V. Villamizar , Eduardo I. Duzzioni

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

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 concept of quantum complexity has far-reaching implications spanning theoretical computer science, quantum many-body physics, and high energy physics. The quantum complexity of a unitary transformation or quantum state is defined as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-02 Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Wissam Chemissany , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Richard Kueng , John Preskill

The quantum speed limit indicates the maximal evolution speed of the quantum system. In this work, we determine speed limits on the informational measures, namely the von Neumann entropy, maximal information, and coherence of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 Brij Mohan , Siddhartha Das , Arun Kumar Pati

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

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

Distance to Uncontrollability is a crucial concept in classical control theory. Here, we introduce Quantum Distance to Uncontrollability as a measure how close a universal quantum system is to a non-universal one. This allows us to provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Daniel Burgarth , Jeff Borggaard , Zoltán Zimborás

How multiple observables mutually influence their dynamics has been a crucial issue in statistical mechanics. We introduce a new concept, "quantum velocity limits," to establish a quantitative and rigorous theory for non-equilibrium quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-10 Ryusuke Hamazaki