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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…

In practical measurements, it is widely recognized that reducing the measurement time leads to decreased accuracy. However, whether an inherent speed-accuracy trade-off exists as a fundamental physical constraint for quantum measurements is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-30 Satoshi Nakajima , Hiroyasu Tajima

The speed limit provides an upper bound for the dynamical evolution time of a quantum system. Here, we introduce the notion of quantum acceleration limit for unitary time evolution of quantum systems under time-dependent Hamiltonian. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Arun Kumar Pati

We introduce action quantum speed limits (QSLs) as a family of bounds on the minimal time to connect two states that, unlike the usual geometric approach, crucially depend on how the path is traversed, i.e. on the instantaneous speed. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Eoin O'Connor , Giacomo Guarnieri , Steve Campbell

Given the initial and final states of a quantum system, the speed of transportation of state vector in the projective Hilbert space governs the quantum speed limit. Here, we ask the question what happens to the quantum speed limit under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Abhay Srivastav , Vivek Pandey , Arun K Pati

Lieb-Robinson bounds show that the speed of propagation of information under the Heisenberg dynamics in a wide class of non-relativistic quantum lattice systems is essentially bounded. We review work of the past dozen years that has turned…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Bruno Nachtergaele , Robert Sims , Amanda Young

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

A unified bound on the quantum speed limit is obtained for open quantum systems with the mixed initial state by utilizing the function of relative purity proposed in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060409 (2018)]. As applications, it is found that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Shao-xiong Wu , Chang-shui Yu

We propose a new approach concerning the introduction of time-irreversibility in statistical mechanics. It is based on a transition function defined in terms of path integral and verifying a time-irreversible equation. We show first how…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-02 J. P. Badiali

Optimal processes in stochastic thermodynamics are a frontier for understanding the control and design of non-equilibrium systems, with broad practical applications in biology, chemistry, and nanoscale/mesoscale systems. Optimal mass…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-15 Atul Tanaji Mohite , Heiko Rieger

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

We consider the problem of distinguishing between a set of arbitrary quantum states in a setting in which the time available to perform the measurement is limited. We provide simple upper bounds on how well we can perform state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Andrew C. Doherty , Stephanie Wehner

We present a geometric optimization method for implementing quantum gates by optimally controlling the Hamiltonian parameters, with the goal of approaching the Mandelstam-Tamm Quantum Speed Limit (MT-QSL). Achieving this bound requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 F. Impens , D. Guéry-Odelin

Achieving effectively adiabatic dynamics is a ubiquitous goal in almost all areas of quantum physics. Here, we study the speed with which a quantum system can be driven when employing transitionless quantum driving. As a main result, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Steve Campbell , Sebastian Deffner

When the boundary condition of a quantum system changes, how fast will it affect the state of the system? Here we show that if the response takes place immediately, then it can allow superluminal signal transfer. Else if the response…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-15 Guang Ping He

We investigate the quantum speed limit (QSL) of a single superconducting qubit subjected to pure dephasing induced by bistable random telegraph noise (RTN), a common environmental disturbance in solid state quantum systems. Using an exactly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Maryam Hadipour

Metastable transitions in Langevin dynamics can exhibit rich behaviors that are markedly different from its overdamped limit. In addition to local alterations of the transition path geometry, more fundamental global changes may exist. For…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-28 Andre Souza , Molei Tao

Existing quantum speed limits for controlled open quantum systems depend on the specified trajectory. For example, lower bounds on quantum annealing times in the presence of dissipation depend explicitly on the chosen annealing schedule.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 James B. Larsen , Tameem Albash , Alicia B. Magann , Christian Arenz

Can the properties of the thermodynamic limit of a many-body quantum system be extrapolated by analysing a sequence of finite-size cases? We present a model for which such an approach gives completely misleading results: a translationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Johannes Bausch , Toby S. Cubitt , Angelo Lucia , David Perez-Garcia , Michael M. Wolf

Nonequilibrium states of closed quantum many-body systems defy a thermodynamic description. As a consequence, constraints such as the principle of equal a priori probabilities in the microcanonical ensemble can be relaxed, which can lead to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Markus Heyl
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