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Quantum speed limits (QSLs) identify fundamental time scales of physical processes by providing lower bounds on the rate of change of a quantum state or the expectation value of an observable. We introduce a generalization of QSL for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Nicoletta Carabba , Niklas Hörnedal , Adolfo del Campo

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 reverse quantum speed limit (RQSL) gives an upper limit to the time for evolution between initial and final quantum states. We show that, in conjunction with the existence of a minimum time scale, the RQSL implies a lower limit to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Mark A. Rubin

We establish a comprehensive theoretical framework for coherent quantum speed limits (QSLs), deriving fundamental bounds on the rate of quantum evolution that explicitly isolate the contribution of quantum coherence. By applying H\"older's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Xuhui Xiao , Hai Wang , Xingze Qiu

We investigate if physical laws can impose limit on computational time and speed of a quantum computer built from elementary particles. We show that the product of the speed and the running time of a quantum computer is limited by the type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. K. Pati , S. R. Jain , A. Mitra , R. Ramanna

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…

In this paper, we introduce a new alternative quantum fidelity for quantum states which perfectly satisfies all Jozsas axioms and is zero for orthogonal states. By employing this fidelity, we derive an improved bound for quantum speed limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Abbas Ektesabi , Naghi Behzadi , Esfandyar Faizi

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

Non-classical features of quantum systems can degrade when subjected to environment and noise. Here, we ask a fundamental question: What is the minimum amount of time it takes for a quantum system to exhibit non-classical features in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Divyansh Shrimali , Swapnil Bhowmick , Arun Kumar Pati

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

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

The quantum speed limit specifies a universal bound of the fidelity between the initial state and the time-evolved state. We apply this method to find a bound of the fidelity between the adiabatic state and the time-evolved state. The bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Keisuke Suzuki , Kazutaka Takahashi

Quantum mechanics imposes fundamental constraints known as quantum speed limits (QSLs) on the information processing speed of all quantum systems. Every QSL known to date comes from the restriction imposed on the evolution time between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 H. F. Chau

Quantum speed limit (QSL) is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics and provides a lower bound on the evolution time. The attainability of QSL, greatly depending on the understanding of QSL, is a long-standing open problem especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Zi-yi Mai , Chang-shui Yu

Quantum speed limit is bound on the minimum time a quantum system requires to evolve from an initial state to final state under a given dynamical process. It sheds light on how fast a desired state transformation can take place which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Vivek Pandey , Divyansh Shrimali , Brij Mohan , Siddhartha Das , Arun Kumar Pati

In quantum mechanics, the expectation value of a quantity on a quantum state, provided that the state itself gives in the classical limit a motion of a particle in a definite path, in classical limit goes over to Fourier series form of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Q. H. Liu

We derive generalized quantum speed limit inequalities that represent limitations on the time evolution of quantum states. They are extensions of the original inequality and are applied to the overlap between the time-evolved state and an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Kazutaka Takahashi

According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle between time and energy fluctuation, a concept of the quantum speed limit (QSL) has been established to determine the minimum evolutionary time between quantum states. Considerable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Fu-Quan Dou , Min-Peng Han , Chuan-Cun Shu

We derive the classical limit of quantum mechanics by describing the center of mass of a system constituted by a large number of particles. We will show that in that limit the commutator between the position and velocity of the center of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-03 Gabriele Carcassi

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