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The Mandelstam-Tamm and Margolus-Levitin inequalities play an important role in the study of quantum mechanical processes in Nature, since they provide general limits on the speed of dynamical evolution. However, to date there has been only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 Philip J. Jones , Pieter Kok

Quantum speed limits (QSLs) provide an upper bound for the speed of evolution of quantum states in any physical process. Based on the Stratonovich-Weyl correspondence, we derive a universal QSL bound in arbitrary phase spaces that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Weiquan Meng , Zhenyu Xu

It is remarkable that Heisenberg's position-momentum uncertainty relation leads to the existence of a maximal acceleration for a physical particle in the context of a geometric reformulation of quantum mechanics. It is also known that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Paul M. Alsing , Carlo Cafaro

The concept of quantum speed limit-time (QSL) was initially introduced as a lower bound to the time interval that a given initial state $\psi_I$ may need so as to evolve into a state orthogonal to itself. Recently [V. Giovannetti, S. Lloyd,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Borrás , M. Casas , A. R. Plastino , A. Plastino

Quantum speed limit (QSL) is the lower bound on the time required for a state to evolve to a desired final state under a given Hamiltonian evolution. Three well-known QSLs exist Mandelstam-Tamm (MT), Margolus-Levitin (ML), and dual ML…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 M Suman , S. Aravinda , Ranjan Modak

The generic bound of quantum speed limit time (the minimal evolution time) for a qubit system interacting with structural environment is investigated. We define a new bound for the quantum speed limit. It is shown that the non-Markovianity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 Shao-xiong Wu , Yang Zhang , Chang-shui Yu , He-shan Song

Tracking the time evolution of a quantum state allows one to verify the thermalization rate or the propagation speed of correlations in generic quantum systems. Inspired by the energy-time uncertainty principle, bounds have been…

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

Quantum speed limits provide ultimate bounds on the time required to transform one quantum state into another. Here, we extend the notion of quantum speed limits to collections of quantum states, investigating the time for converting a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Moein Naseri , Chiara Macchiavello , Dagmar Bruß , Paweł Horodecki , Alexander Streltsov

Bounds of the minimum evolution time between two distinguishable states of a system can help to assess the maximal speed of quantum computers and communication channels. We study the quantum speed limit time of a composite quantum states in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-16 Ying-Jie Zhang , Wei Han , Yun-Jie Xia , Ke-Xia Jiang , Jun-Peng Cao , Heng Fan

The attempt to gain a theoretical understanding of the concept of time in quantum mechanics has triggered significant progress towards the search for faster and more efficient quantum technologies. One of such advances consists in the…

Quantum mechanics dictates bounds for the minimal evolution time between predetermined initial and final states. Several of these Quantum Speed Limit (QSL) bounds were derived for non-unitary dynamics using different approaches. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Nicolás Mirkin , Fabricio Toscano , Diego A. Wisniacki

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

For Schroedinger equations with both time-independent and time-dependent Kato potentials, we give a simple proof of the maximal speed bound. The latter states that the probability to find the quantum system outside the ball of radius…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Jack Arbunich , Fabio Pusateri , Israel Michael Sigal , Avraham Soffer

The quantum speed limit sets a fundamental restriction on the evolution time of quantum systems. We explore the relationship between quantum imaginarity and the quantum speed limit by utilizing measures such as relative entropy, trace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Dong-Ping Xuan , Zhong-Xi Shen , Wen Zhou , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

The evaluation of the minimal evolution time between two distinguishable states of a system is important for assessing the maximal speed of quantum computers and communication channels. Lower bounds for this minimal time have been proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 M. M. Taddei , B. M. Escher , L. Davidovich , R. L. de Matos Filho

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

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

We derive Margolus-Levitin and Mandelstamm-Tamm type bound on the quantum speed limit time for the creation and decay of quantum correlations by an amount in a quantum system evolving under the influence of its ambient environment. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 K. G Paulson , Subhashish Banerjee

Quantum speed limit is a fundamental speed limit for the evolution of quantum states. It is the single-most important interpretation of the time energy uncertainty relation. Recently the speed limit of quantum correlations have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Shrobona Bagchi