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The speed limits on entanglement are defined as the maximal rate at which entanglement can be generated or degraded in a physical process. We derive the speed limits on entanglement, using the relative entropy of entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Vivek Pandey , Swapnil Bhowmick , Brij Mohan , Sohail , Ujjwal Sen

We investigated the quantum speed limit time of a qubit system with non-Hermitian detuning. Our results show that, with respect to two distinguishable states of the non-Hermitian system, the evolutionary time does not have a nonzero lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Yan-Yi Wang , Mao-Fa Fang

The speed of quantum evolution is limited under finite energy resources. While most quantum speed limits (QSLs) are formulated in terms of quantum states, they can be extended to the evolution operator itself, and thus impose fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Hunter Nelson , Edwin Barnes

According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle between time and energy fluctuation, a concept of the quantum speed limit (QSL) has been established to determine the minimum evolutionary time between quantum states. Considerable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Fu-Quan Dou , Min-Peng Han , Chuan-Cun Shu

Quantum mechanics establishes a fundamental bound for the minimum evolution time between two states of a given system. Known as the quantum speed limit (QSL), it is a useful tool in the context of quantum control, where the speed of some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-25 P. M. Poggi , F. C. Lombardo , D. A. Wisniacki

The quantum speed limit provides fundamental bound on how fast a quantum system can evolve between the initial and the final states. For the unitary evolution, the celebrated Mandelstam-Tamm (MT) bound has been widely studied for various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Dimpi Thakuria , Arun Kumar Pati

The quantum speed limit is a fundamental upper bound on the speed of quantum evolution. However, the actual mathematical expression of this fundamental limit depends on the choice of a measure of distinguishability of quantum states. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 Sebastian Deffner

Memory effects play a fundamental role in the dynamics of open quantum systems. There exist two different views on memory for quantum noises. In the first view, the quantum channel has memory when there exist correlations between successive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 N. Awasthi , S. Haseli , U. C. Johri , S. Salimi , H. Dolatkhah , A. S. Khorashad

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

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…

The quantum speed of evolution for the phase covariant map is investigated. This involves absorption, emission and dephasing processes. We consider the maps under various combinations of the above processes to investigate the effect of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Riya Baruah , K. G. Paulson , Subhashish Banerjee

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

What is the minimal time until a quantum system can exhibit genuine quantum features? To answer this question we derive quantum speed limits for two-time correlation functions arising from statistics of measurements. Generally, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Sagar Silva Pratapsi , Sebastian Deffner , Stefano Gherardini

Conventional quantum speed limits perform poorly for mixed quantum states: They are generally not tight and often significantly underestimate the fastest possible evolution speed. To remedy this, for unitary driving, we derive two quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Francesco Campaioli , Felix A. Pollock , Felix C. Binder , Kavan Modi

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

How fast can a quantum system evolve? We answer this question focusing on the role of entanglement and interactions among subsystems. In particular, we analyze how the order of the interactions shapes the dynamics.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vittorio Giovannetti , Seth Lloyd , Lorenzo Maccone

The quantum speed limit specifies a universal bound of the fidelity between the initial state and the time-evolved state. We apply this method to find a bound of the fidelity between the adiabatic state and the time-evolved state. The bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Keisuke Suzuki , Kazutaka Takahashi

We derive generic upper bounds on the rate of purity change and entropy increase for open quantum systems. These bounds depend solely on the generators of the nonunitary dynamics and are independent of the particular states of the systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Raam Uzdin , Eric Lutz , Ronnie Kosloff

One of the fundamental physical limits on the speed of time evolution of a quantum state is known in the form of the celebrated Mandelstam-Tamm inequality. This inequality gives an answer to the question on how fast an isolated quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Sergio Albeverio , Alexander K. Motovilov

The quantum speed limit (QSL) is the theoretical lower limit of the time for a quantum system to evolve from a given state to another one. Interestingly, it has been shown that non-Markovianity can be used to speed-up the dynamics and to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Jose Teittinen , Sabrina Maniscalco