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We consider quantum systems with energy constraints relative to a reference Hamiltonian. In general, quantum channels and continuous-time dynamics need not satisfy energy conservation. Physically meaningful channels, however, only introduce…

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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

The growth of simple operators is essential for the emergence of chaotic dynamics and quantum thermalization. Recent studies have proposed different measures, including the out-of-time-order correlator and Krylov complexity. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Liangyu Chen , Baoyuan Mu , Huajia Wang , Pengfei Zhang

It is argued that the world is a dissipative dynamic system, a phase flow of which is formed by conformally-symplectic mapping. The key assumption is that the concept of energy in microcosm makes sense only for the steady motions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-04-08 A. P. Alexandrov

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

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

Entanglement is a defining feature of many-body quantum systems and is an essential requirement for quantum computing. It is therefore useful to study physical processes which generate entanglement within a large system, as they maybe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Gaurav Rudra Malik , Rohit Kumar Shukla , S. Aravinda , Sunil Kumar Mishra

We study chaos and scrambling in unitary channels by considering their entanglement properties as states. Using out-of-time-order correlation functions to diagnose chaos, we characterize the ability of a channel to process quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Pavan Hosur , Xiao-Liang Qi , Daniel A. Roberts , Beni Yoshida

The quantum speed limit is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics, which aims at finding the minimum time scale or the maximum dynamical speed for some fixed targets. In a large number of studies in this field, the construction of valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Yanyan Shao , Bo Liu , Mao Zhang , Haidong Yuan , Jing Liu

We develop an intuitive geometric picture of quantum states, define a particular state distance, and derive a quantum speed limit (QSL) for open systems. Our QSL is attainable because any initial state can be driven to a final state by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Zi-yi Mai , Chang-shui Yu

Traditional quantum speed limits formulated in density matrix space are generally unattainable for a wide class of dynamics and it is difficult to characterize the fastest possible dynamics. To address this, we present two distinct quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Abhay Srivastav , Vivek Pandey , Brij Mohan , Arun Kumar Pati

Recently, Jones and Kok [P. J. Jones and P. Kok, Phys. Rev. A 82, 022107 (2010)] presented alternative geometric derivations of the Mandelstam-Tamm [L. Mandelstam and I. Tamm, J. Phys. (USSR) 9, 249 (1945)] and Margolus-Levitin [N. Margolus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-11 Marcin Zwierz

Quantum speed limit (QSL) for open quantum systems in the non-Markovian regime is analyzed. We provide a the lower bound for the time required to transform an initial state to a final state in terms of thermodynamic quantities such as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-11 Arpan Das , Anindita Bera , Sagnik Chakraborty , Dariusz Chruściński

This tutorial article introduces the physics of quantum information scrambling in quantum many-body systems. The goals are to understand how to precisely quantify the spreading of quantum information and how causality emerges in complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

We prove that quantum information propagates with a finite velocity in any model of interacting bosons whose (possibly time-dependent) Hamiltonian contains spatially local single-boson hopping terms along with arbitrary local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-19 Chao Yin , Andrew Lucas

We consider quantum dynamics of systems with fast spatial modulation of the Hamiltonian. Employing the formalism of supersymmetric quantum mechanics and decoupling fast and slow spatial oscillations we demonstrate that the effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Viktor Novičenko , Julius Ruseckas , Egidijus Anisimovas

Limitations to the speed of evolution of quantum systems, typically referred to as quantum speed limits (QSLs), have important consequences for quantum control problems. However, in its standard formulation, is not straightforward to obtain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Pablo M. Poggi

Lyapunov exponents, a purely classical quantity, play an important role in the evolution of quantum chaotic systems in the semiclassical limit. We conjecture the existence of an upper bound on the Lyapunov exponents that contribute to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-06 David Berenstein , Antonio M. García-García

We study the entanglement dynamics of quantum many-body systems and prove the following: (I) For any geometrically local Hamiltonian on a lattice, starting from a random product state the entanglement entropy is bounded away from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Yichen Huang

A remarkable feature of chaos in many-body quantum systems is the existence of a bound on the quantum Lyapunov exponent. An important question is to understand what is special about maximally chaotic systems which saturate this bound. Here…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Mike Blake , Hong Liu