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We study the minimum time related to the quantum speed limit that characterizes the evolution of an open quantum system with the help of a simple model in the short and long time limits. We compare in particular the situation corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Jean Richert , Tarek Khalil

Quantum speed limits are relations yielding lower bounds on the evolution time of quantum systems. These results have been generalized in some ways, in particular by including evolutions to non-orthogonal states. However, there was a gap in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-17 M. M. Taddei

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

In this paper, we derive sharp lower bounds, also known as quantum speed limits, for the time it takes to transform a quantum system into a state such that an observable assumes its lowest average value. We assume that the system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Dan Allan , Niklas Hörnedal , Ole Andersson

Inequalities of Mandelstam-Tamm and Margolus-Levitin type provide lower bounds on the time it takes for a quantum system to evolve from one state into another. Knowledge of such bounds, called quantum speed limits, is of utmost importance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-08 Ole Andersson , Hoshang Heydari

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 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 describes how quickly a quantum system can evolve in time from an initial state to a final state under a given dynamics. Here, we derive a generalised quantum speed limit (GQSL) for arbitrary time-continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Dimpi Thakuria , Abhay Srivastav , Brij Mohan , Asmita Kumari , Arun Kumar Pati

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

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

By a quantum speed limit one usually understands an estimate on how fast a quantum system can evolve between two distinguishable states. The most known quantum speed limit is given in the form of the celebrated Mandelstam-Tamm inequality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Sergio Albeverio , Alexander K. Motovilov

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…

Quantum speed limits set an upper bound to the rate at which a quantum system can evolve. Adopting a phase-space approach we explore quantum speed limits across the quantum to classical transition and identify equivalent bounds in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 B. Shanahan , A. Chenu , N. Margolus , A. del Campo

We establish a comprehensive theoretical framework for coherent quantum speed limits (QSLs), deriving fundamental bounds on the rate of quantum evolution that explicitly isolate the contribution of quantum coherence. By applying H\"older's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Xuhui Xiao , Hai Wang , Xingze Qiu

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

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

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

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 limits provide upper bounds on the rate with which a quantum system can move away from its initial state. Here, we provide a different kind of speed limit, describing the divergence of a perturbed open system from its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Benjamin Yadin , Satoya Imai , Otfried Gühne

Quantum speed limit (QSL) is the study of fundamental limits on the evolution time of quantum systems. For instance, under the action of a time-independent Hamiltonian, the evolution time between an initial and a final quantum state obeys…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 H. F. Chau , Wenxin Zeng
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