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Quantum speed limits set fundamental lower bounds on the time required for a quantum system to evolve between states. Traditional bounds, such as those by Mandelstam-Tamm and Margolus-Levitin, rely on state distinguishability and become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Ole Sönnerborn

Quantum physics dictates fundamental speed limits during time evolution. We present a quantum speed limit governing the generation of nonclassicality and the mutual incompatibility of two states connected by time evolution. This result is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Jun Jing , Lian-Ao Wu , Adolfo del Campo

In this article, we consider single, and two-qubit central spin systems interacting with spin baths and discuss their dynamical properties. We consider the cases of interacting and non-interacting spin baths and investigate the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Devvrat Tiwari , K. G. Paulson , Subhashish Banerjee

Standard quantum speed limits presuppose exactly known parameters, overestimating operational speed under calibration uncertainty. We introduce a projected speed limit based on the quantum Fisher information that profiles out these nuisance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Salman Sajad Wani , Saif Al-Kuwari

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

In ultracold gases many experiments use atom imaging as a basic observable. The resulting image is averaged over a number of realizations and mostly only this average is used. Only recently the noise has been measured to extract physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. E. Astrakharchik , R. Combescot , L. P. Pitaevskii

This paper reports on some new inequalities of Margolus-Levitin-Mandelstam-Tamm-type involving the speed of quantum evolution between two orthogonal pure states. The clear determinant of the qualitative behavior of this time scale is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ulvi Yurtsever

We probe the quantum speed limit (QSL) of an electron when it is trapped in a non-uniform magnetic field. We show that the QSL increases to a large value, but within the regime of causality, by choosing a proper variation in magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Srishty Aggarwal , Subhashish Banerjee , Arindam Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Quantum speed limit focuses on the minimum time scale for a fixed mission and hence is important in quantum information where fast dynamics is usually beneficial. Most existing tools for the depiction of quantum speed limit are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Mao Zhang , Huai-Ming Yu , Jing Liu

The laws of quantum physics place a limit on the speed of computation. In particular, the evolution time of a system from an initial state to a final state cannot be arbitrarily short. Bounds on the speed of evolution for unitary dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Zihao Hu , Haidong Yuan , Zigui Zhang , Chi-Hang Fred Fung , Zibo Miao

Distance to Uncontrollability is a crucial concept in classical control theory. Here, we introduce Quantum Distance to Uncontrollability as a measure how close a universal quantum system is to a non-universal one. This allows us to provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Daniel Burgarth , Jeff Borggaard , Zoltán Zimborás

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

The quantum speed limit is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics, which aims at finding the minimum time scale or the maximum dynamical speed for some fixed targets. In a large number of studies in this field, the construction of valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Yanyan Shao , Bo Liu , Mao Zhang , Haidong Yuan , Jing Liu

Dissipation has traditionally been considered a hindrance to quantum information processing, but recent studies have shown that it can be harnessed to generate desired quantum states. To be useful for practical applications, the ability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Junjie Liu , Hanlin Nie

Quantum mechanics is an inherently linear theory. However, collective effects in many body quantum systems can give rise to effectively nonlinear dynamics. In the present work, we analyze whether and to what extent such nonlinear effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Sebastian Deffner

Entangled states of rotating, trapped ultracold bosons form a very promising scenario for quantum metrology. In order to employ such states for metrology, it is vital to understand their detailed form and the enhanced accuracy with which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 L. M. Rico-Gutierrez , T. P. Spiller , J. A. Dunningham

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

In quantum control, quantum speed limits provide fundamental lower bounds on the time that is needed to implement certain unitary transformations. Using Lie algebraic methods, we link these speed limits to symmetries of the control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Marco Wiedmann , Daniel Burgarth

Ultracold quantum gases are ideal sources for high-precision space-borne sensing as proposed for Earth observation, relativistic geodesy and tests of fundamental physical laws as well as for studying new phenomena in many-body physics…

We introduce a quantum charging distance as the minimal time that it takes to reach one state (charged state) from another state (depleted state) via a unitary evolution, assuming limits on the resources invested into the driving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Ju-Yeon Gyhm , Dario Rosa , Dominik Šafránek