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Quantum mechanics sets fundamental limits on how fast quantum states can be transformed in time. Two well-known quantum speed limits are the Mandelstam-Tamm and the Margolus-Levitin bounds, which relate the maximum speed of evolution to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Gal Ness , Manolo R. Lam , Wolfgang Alt , Dieter Meschede , Yoav Sagi , Andrea Alberti

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 quantum speed limit sets a bound on the minimum time required for a quantum system to evolve between two states. For open quantum systems this quantity depends on the dynamical map describing the time evolution in presence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-11 Jose Teittinen , Henri Lyyra , Sabrina Maniscalco

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

Any physical system evolves at a finite speed that is constrained not only by the energetic cost but also by the topological structure of the underlying dynamics. In this Letter, by considering such structural information, we derive a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 Tan Van Vu , Keiji Saito

The presence of noise or the interaction with an environment can radically change the dynamics of observables of an otherwise isolated quantum system. We derive a bound on the speed with which observables of open quantum systems evolve.…

The quantum speed limit time for quantum system under squeezed environment is studied. We consider two typical models, the damped Jaynes-Cummings model and the dephasing model. For the damped Jaynes-Cummings model under squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-08 Kang-ying Du , Ya-jie Ma , Shao-xiong Wu , Chang-shui Yu

Standard quantum mechanics is viewed as a limit of a cut system with artificially restricted dimension of a Hilbert space. Exact spectrum of cut momentum and coordinate operators is derived and the limiting transition to the infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Trzetrzelewski , J. Wosiek

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

The speed of elementary quantum gates ultimately sets the limit on the speed at which quantum circuits can operate. For a fixed physical interaction strength between two qubits, the speed of any two-qubit gate is limited even with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Bora Basyildiz , Casey Jameson , Zhexuan Gong

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

An effective Hamiltonian describing interaction between generic "fast" and a "slow" systems is obtained in the strong interaction limit. The result is applied for studying the effect of quantum phase transition as a bifurcation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Isabel Sainz , Andrei B. Klimov , Luis Roa

The problem concerning the minimum time for an initial state to evolve up to a target state plays an important role in the Classic Optimal Control theory. In the quantum context, as quantum states are so sensitive to environmental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Alexandre Coutinho Lisboa , Jose Roberto Castilho Piqueira

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

Thermodynamic speed limits are a set of classical uncertainty relations that, so far, place global bounds on the stochastic dissipation of energy as heat and the production of entropy. Here, instead of constraints on these thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-13 Erez Aghion , Jason R. Green

The quantum speed limit (QSL), or the energy-time uncertainty relation, gives a fundamental speed limit for quantum dynamics. Recently, Kieu [arXiv:1702.00603] derived a new class of QSL which is not only formal but also suitable for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-26 Manaka Okuyama , Masayuki Ohzeki

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

Quantum control refers to our ability to manipulate quantum systems. This tutorial-style chapter focuses on the use of classical electromagnetic fields to steer the system dynamics. In this approach, the quantum nature of the control stems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Christiane P. Koch

Giving a universal upper bound on the power output of heat engines is a long-standing open problem. We tackle this problem for generic quantum machines in self-contained formulation by carefully including the switching process of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Kosuke Ito , Takayuki Miyadera

Quantum reading refers to the task of reading out classical information stored in a read-only memory device. In any such protocol, the transmitter and receiver are in the same physical location, and the goal of such a protocol is to use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 Siddhartha Das , Mark M. Wilde