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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 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 Bhatia-Davis theorem provides a useful upper bound for the variance in mathematics, and in quantum mechanics, the variance of a Hamiltonian is naturally connected to the quantum speed limit due to the Mandelstam-Tamm bound. Inspired by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Jing Liu , Zibo Miao , Libin Fu , Xiaoguang Wang

We construct a general measure for detecting the quantum speedup in both closed and open systems. The speed measure is based on the changing rate of the position of quantum states on a manifold with appropriate monotone Riemannian metrics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-07 Zhen-Yu Xu

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

In this work we derive a lower bound for the minimum time required to implement a target unitary transformation through a classical time-dependent field in a closed quantum system. The bound depends on the target gate, the strength of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Christian Arenz , Benjamin Russell , Daniel Burgarth , Herschel Rabitz

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

We investigate different quantum parameter estimation scenarios in the presence of noise, and identify optimal probe states. For frequency estimation of local Hamiltonians with dephasing noise, we determine optimal probe states for up to 70…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-10 F. Fröwis , M. Skotiniotis , B. Kraus , W. Dür

The quantum navigation problem of finding the time-optimal control Hamiltonian that transports a given initial state to a target state through quantum wind, that is, under the influence of external fields or potentials, is analysed. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dorje C. Brody , Gary W. Gibbons , David M. Meier

We derive a set of functionals for optimization towards an arbitrary cat state and demonstrate their application by optimizing the dynamics of a Kerr-nonlinear Hamiltonian with two-photon driving. The versatility of our framework allows us…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Matthias G. Krauss , Christiane P. Koch , Daniel M. Reich

Quantum speed limit time defines the limit on the minimum time required for a quantum system to evolve between two states. Investigation of bounds on speed limit time of quantum system under non-unitary evolution is of fundamental interest,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 K. G Paulson , Subhashish Banerjee , R. Srikanth

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

We derive a Geometric quantum speed limit (QSL) for imaginary-time evolution, where the dynamics is governed by a non-unitary Schr\"{o}dinger equation. By introducing a cost function based on the angular distance between the normalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Kohei Kobayashi

Quantum speed limit (QSL) defines the theoretical upper bound on how fast a quantum system can evolve between states. It imposes a fundamental constraint on the rate of quantum information processing. For a relativistic spin-up electron in…

We use analytical and numerical calculations to obtain speed limits for various unitary quantum operations in multiqubit systems under typical experimental conditions. The operations that we consider include single-, two-, and three-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-01 S. Ashhab , P. C. de Groot , Franco Nori

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 derive fundamental bounds for general quantum metrological models involving both temporal or spatial correlations (mathematically described by quantum combs), which may be effectively computed in the limit of a large number of probes or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Stanislaw Kurdzialek , Francesco Albarelli , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

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

The study and control of coherence in quantum systems is one of the most exciting recent developments in physics. Quantum coherence plays a crucial role in emerging quantum technologies as well as fundamental experiments. A major obstacle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 Daniel Oi , Sophie Schirmer

We prove that the time required for sustained information scrambling in any Hamiltonian quantum system is universally at least logarithmic in the entanglement entropy of scrambled states. This addresses two foundational problems in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Amit Vikram , Laura Shou , Victor Galitski