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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

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

Optimal control theory is a promising candidate for a drastic improvement of the performance of quantum information tasks. We explore its ultimate limit in paradigmatic cases, and demonstrate that it coincides with the maximum speed limit…

The speed limit of quantum state transfer (QST) in a system of interacting particles is not only important for quantum information processing, but also directly linked to Lieb-Robinson-type bounds that are crucial for understanding various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Casey Jameson , Bora Basyildiz , Daniel Moore , Kyle Clark , Zhexuan Gong

Utilizing the program of expectation values in coherent states and its recently developed algorithmic tools, this letter investigates the dynamical properties of cosmological coherent states for Loop Quantum Gravity. To this end, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Klaus Liegener , Łukasz Rudnicki

The quantum speed limit sets the minimum time required to transfer a quantum system completely into a given target state. At shorter times the higher operation speed has to be paid with a loss of fidelity. Here we quantify the trade-off…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Miroslav Gajdacz , Kunal K. Das , Jan Arlt , Jacob F. Sherson , Tomáš Opatrný

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

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the set of parameters $\{r_{i}\}$ that provide the energy distribution of pure qutrits that evolve towards a distinguishable state at a finite time $\tau$, when evolving under an arbitrary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Francisco J. Sevilla , Andrea Valdés-Hernández , Alan J. Barrios

In this paper, we propose a concept to use a quantum speed limit (QSL) as a measure of robustness of states, defining that a state with bigger QSL is more robust. In this perspective, it is important to have an explicitly-computable QSL,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Kohei Kobayashi , Naoki Yamamoto

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

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

Lack of knowledge about the detailed many-particle motion on the microscopic scale is a key issue in any theoretical description of a macroscopic experiment. For systems at or close to thermal equilibrium, statistical mechanics provides a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-03 Peter Reimann

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…

Recently, Jones and Kok [P. J. Jones and P. Kok, Phys. Rev. A 82, 022107 (2010)] presented alternative geometric derivations of the Mandelstam-Tamm [L. Mandelstam and I. Tamm, J. Phys. (USSR) 9, 249 (1945)] and Margolus-Levitin [N. Margolus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-11 Marcin Zwierz

The minimal set of thermodynamic control parameters consists of a statistical (thermal) and a mechanical one. These suffice to introduce all the pertinent thermodynamic variables; thermodynamic processes can then be defined as paths on this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jan Birjukov , Thomas Jahnke , Günter Mahler

We derive algebraic bounds on achievable rates for quantum state transfer and entanglement generation in general quantum systems. We apply these bounds to graph-based models of local quantum spin systems to obtain speed limits on these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Jeffrey M. Epstein , K. Birgitta Whaley

We review the mathematical speed limits on quantum information processing in many-body systems. After the proof of the Lieb-Robinson Theorem in 1972, the past two decades have seen substantial developments in its application to other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Chi-Fang Chen , Andrew Lucas , Chao Yin

We analyze state preparation within a restricted space of local control parameters between adiabatically connected states of control Hamiltonians. We formulate a conjecture that the time integral of energy fluctuations over the protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 Marin Bukov , Dries Sels , Anatoli Polkovnikov

The Time-Fractional Schr\"odinger Equation (TFSE) is well-adjusted to study a quantum system interacting with its dissipative environment. The Quantum Speed Limit (QSL) time captures the shortest time required for a quantum system to evolve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Dongmei Wei , Hailing Liu , Yongmei Li , Fei Gao , Sujuan Qin , Qiaoyan Wen

The rate of the trace distance is used to evaluate quantum speed-up for arbitrary mixed states. Compared with some present methods, the approach based on trace distance can provide an optimal bound to the speed of the evolution. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Xiang Hao , Wenjiong Wu