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We extend the work in New J. Phys. 19, 103015 (2017) by deriving a lower bound for the minimum time necessary to implement a unitary transformation on a generic, closed quantum system with an arbitrary number of classical control fields.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Juneseo Lee , Christian Arenz , Herschel Rabitz , Benjamin Russell

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

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

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

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 prove fundamental rigorous bounds on the speed of quantum evolution for a quantum system coupled to a thermal bath. The bounds are formulated in terms of expectation values of few-body observables derived from the system-bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 N. Il'in , A. Aristova , O. Lychkovskiy

Quantum sensors capitalize on advanced control sequences for maximizing sensitivity and precision. However, protocols are not usually optimized for temporal resolution. Here, we establish the limits for time-resolved sensing of dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Konstantin Herb , Christian L. Degen

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 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

One often needs to estimate how fast an evolving state of a quantum system can depart from some target state or target subspace of a Hilbert space. Such estimates are known as quantum speed limits. We derive a quantum speed limit for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 N. Il`in , O. Lychkovskiy

Quantum asymmetry and coherence are genuinely quantum resources that are essential to realize quantum advantage in information technologies. However, all quantum processes are fundamentally constrained by quantum speed limits, which raises…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Agung Budiyono , Michael Moody , Hadyan L. Prihadi , Rafika Rahmawati , Sebastian Deffner

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

Quantum speed limit (QSL) is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics and provides a lower bound on the evolution time. The attainability of QSL, greatly depending on the understanding of QSL, is a long-standing open problem especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Zi-yi Mai , Chang-shui Yu

We analyze the influence of relativistic effects on the minimum evolution time between two orthogonal states of a quantum system. Defining the initial state as an homogeneous superposition between two Hamiltonian eigenstates of an electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 David V. Villamizar , Eduardo I. Duzzioni

We theoretically study the quantum speed limit of a single atom trapped in a Fabry-Perot microresonator. The cavity mode will be squeezed when a driving laser is applied to the second-order nonlinear medium, and the effective Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Ya-Jie Ma , Xue-Chen Gao , Shao-Xiong Wu , Chang-shui Yu

Coherence is the most fundamental quantum resource in quantum information processing. How fast a physical system gets coherence or decoherence is a critical ingredient. We present an attainable quantum speed limit based on the variation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Zi-yi Mai , CHang-shui Yu

We investigate if physical laws can impose limit on computational time and speed of a quantum computer built from elementary particles. We show that the product of the speed and the running time of a quantum computer is limited by the type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. K. Pati , S. R. Jain , A. Mitra , R. Ramanna

A remarkably simple result is derived for the minimal time $T_{\rm min}$ required to drive a general initial state to a final target state by a Landau-Zener type Hamiltonian or, equivalently, by time-dependent laser driving. The associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt

The speed limit of quantum state transfer (QST) in a system of interacting particles is not only important for quantum information processing, but also directly linked to Lieb-Robinson-type bounds that are crucial for understanding various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Casey Jameson , Bora Basyildiz , Daniel Moore , Kyle Clark , Zhexuan Gong

We derive algebraic bounds on achievable rates for quantum state transfer and entanglement generation in general quantum systems. We apply these bounds to graph-based models of local quantum spin systems to obtain speed limits on these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Jeffrey M. Epstein , K. Birgitta Whaley