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We studied geometric quantum speed limits (QSL) of a qubit subject to decoherence in an ensemble of chloroform molecules in a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance experiment. The QSL is a fundamental lower bound on the evolution time for quantum…

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

We derive generalizations of the energy-time uncertainty relation for driven quantum systems. Using a geometric approach based on the Bures length between mixed quantum states, we obtain explicit expressions for the quantum speed limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 Sebastian Deffner , Eric Lutz

The problem of the time of arrival of a quantum system in a specified state is considered in the framework of the repeated measurement protocol and in particular the limit of continuous measurements is discussed. It is shown that for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Varun Dubey , Cedric Bernardin , Abhishek Dhar

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 investigate the limits of control for mixed-state quantum systems. The constraint of unitary evolution for non-dissipative quantum systems imposes kinematical bounds on the optimization of arbitrary observables. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-05 S. G. Schirmer , J. V. Leahy

The quantum mechanical time-evolution is studied for a particle under the influence of an explicitly time-dependent rotating potential. We discuss the existence of the propagator and we show that in the limit of rapid rotation it converges…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Volker Enss , Vadim Kostrykin , Robert Schrader

We theoretically study the quantum speed limits (QSLs) of a qubit system coupled to a thermal dephasing environment with an Ohmic-like spectral density. Based on the geometric QSLs time bound, which is derived by employing the trace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Xiangji Cai , Yanyan Feng , Jing Ren , Kang Lan , Shuning Sun , Xiangjia Meng , Artur Czerwinski

Quantum observables can be identified with vector fields on the sphere of normalized states. The resulting vector representation is used in the paper to undertake a simultaneous treatment of macroscopic and microscopic bodies in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Alexey A. Kryukov

The quantum speed limit (QSL) time for open system characterizes the most efficient response of the system to the environmental influences. Previous results showed that the non-Markovianity governs the quantum speedup. Via studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 Hai-Bin Liu , W. L. Yang , Jun-Hong An , Zhen-Yu Xu

Timing and phase resolution in satellite QKD, kilometre-scale gravitational-wave detectors, and space-borne clock networks hinge on quantum-speed limits (QSLs), yet benchmarks omit relativistic effects for coherent and squeezed probes. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Salman Sajad Wani , Aatif Kaisar Khan , Saif Al-Kuwari , Mir Faizal

We consider the simplest identical-fermion system that exhibits the phenomenon of entanglement (beyond exchange correlations) to analyze its speed of evolution towards an orthogonal state, and revisit the relation between this latter and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Sahory Canseco J. , Andrea Valdés-Hernández

A fundamental problem in quantum engineering is determining the lowest time required to ensure that all possible unitaries can be generated with the tools available, which is one of a number of possible quantum speed limits. We examine this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Mattias T. Johnsson , Lauritz van Luijk , Daniel Burgarth

The Mandelstam-Tamm quantum speed limit puts a bound on how fast a closed system in a pure state can evolve. In this paper, we derive several extensions of this quantum speed limit to closed systems in mixed states. We also compare the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Niklas Hörnedal , Dan Allan , Ole Sönnerborn

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

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

The reverse quantum speed limit (RQSL) gives an upper limit to the time for evolution between initial and final quantum states. We show that, in conjunction with the existence of a minimum time scale, the RQSL implies a lower limit to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Mark A. Rubin

We investigate the speed limit of the state transformation in open quantum systems described by the Lindblad type quantum master equation. We obtain universal bounds of the total entropy production described by the trace distance between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-05 Satoshi Nakajima , Yasuhiro Utsumi

We investigate the quantum evolution speed of a qubit in two kinds of finite-temperature environments. The first environment is a bosonic bath with Ohmic-like spectrum. It is found that the high temperature not only leads to the speed-up…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Jun-Qing Cheng , Guo-Qing Zhang , Jing-Bo Xu

A common feature of collapse models and an expected signature of the quantization of gravity at energies well below the Planck scale is the deviation from ordinary quantum-mechanical behavior. Here, we analyze the general consequences of…