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Variational quantum time evolution allows us to simulate the time dynamics of quantum systems with near-term compatible quantum circuits. Due to the variational nature of this method the accuracy of the simulation is a priori unknown. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Christa Zoufal , David Sutter , Stefan Woerner

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

A relevant problem in quantum computing concerns how fast a source state can be driven into a target state according to Schr\"odinger's quantum mechanical evolution specified by a suitable driving Hamiltonian. In this paper, we study in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Steven Gassner , Carlo Cafaro , Salvatore Capozziello

The quantum speed limit (QSL) refers to the maximum speed of a quantum system to evolve from an initial state to its orthogonal states. The bound on the QSL for Hermitian systems, for example the Mandelstam-Tamm (MT) and Margolus-Levitin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhanxi Wang , Xiaozhe Hao , X. X. Yi

One version of the energy-time uncertainty principle states that the minimum time $T_{\perp}$ for a quantum system to evolve from a given state to any orthogonal state is $h/(4 \Delta E)$ where $\Delta E$ is the energy uncertainty. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 Stephen P. Jordan

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

Quantum speed limits for two time-evolved states are introduced and applied to overlap between true dynamics and approximate dynamics. In particular, we point out that the present idea is suitable for invariant-based inverse engineering,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Takuya Hatomura

Research in quantum information science aims to surpass the scaling limitations of classical information processing. From a physicist's perspective, performance improvement involves a physical speedup in the quantum domain, achieved by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Farha Yasmin , Jan Sperling

Quantum critical states exhibit strong quantum fluctuations and are therefore highly susceptible to perturbations. In this work we study the dynamical stability against a sudden coupling to these strong fluctuations by quenching the order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-21 Markus Heyl

In this article we explore a modification in the problem of controlling the rotation of a two level quantum system from an initial state to a final state in minimum time. Specifically we consider the case where the qubit is being weakly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-09 Srinivas Sridharan

Quantum adiabatic evolution algorithm suggested by Farhi et al. was effective in solving instances of NP-complete problems. The algorithm is governed by the adiabatic theorem. Therefore, in order to reduce the running time, it is essential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Joonwoo Bae , Younghun Kwon

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 apply an extension of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle to derive time-optimal controls of two-level quantum systems by means of piecewise constant pulses. Global optimal solutions are obtained for state-to-state transfer in the cases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 E. Dionis , D. Sugny

Quantum speed limits (QSLs) establish intrinsic bounds on the minimum time required for the evolution of quantum systems. We present a class of QSLs formulated in terms of the two-parameter Sharma-Mittal entropy (SME), applicable to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Dong-Ping Xuan , Zhi-Xi Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

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

While recent breakthroughs in quantum computing promise the nascence of the quantum information age, quantum states remain delicate to control. Moreover, the required energy budget for large scale quantum applications has only sparely been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Maxwell Aifer , Sebastian Deffner

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

The number of defects which are generated on crossing a quantum phase transition can be minimized by choosing properly designed time-dependent pulses. In this work we determine what are the ultimate limits of this optimization. We discuss…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 T. Caneva , T. Calarco , R. Fazio , G. E. Santoro , S. Montangero

Quantum speed limit (QSL) under noise has drawn considerable attention in real quantum computational processes and quantum communication. Though non-Markovian noise is proven to be able to accelerate quantum evolution for a damped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Z. Y. Xu , S. Q. Zhu

We derive a Margolus-Levitin type bound on the minimal evolution time of an arbitrarily driven open quantum system. We express this quantum speed limit time in terms of the operator norm of the nonunitary generator of the dynamics. We apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-04 Sebastian Deffner , Eric Lutz