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The presence of noise or the interaction with an environment can radically change the dynamics of observables of an otherwise isolated quantum system. We derive a bound on the speed with which observables of open quantum systems evolve.…

We derive a family of quantum speed limit results in time independent systems with pure states and a finite dimensional state space, by using a geometric method based on right invariant action functionals on SU(N). The method relates speed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 Benjamin Russell , Susan Stepney

One of the most widely known building blocks of modern physics is Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle. Among the different statements of this fundamental property of the full quantum mechanical nature of physical reality, the uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Sebastian Deffner , Steve Campbell

The energy-time uncertainty relation limits the maximum speed of quantum system evolution and is crucial for determining whether quantum tasks can be accelerated. However, multiparticle quantum speed limits have not been experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Rui-Heng Miao , Zhao-Di Liu , Chen-Xi Ning , Yu-Cong Hu , Hao Zhang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We derive a Margolus-Levitin type bound on the minimal evolution time of an arbitrarily driven open quantum system. We express this quantum speed limit time in terms of the operator norm of the nonunitary generator of the dynamics. We apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-04 Sebastian Deffner , Eric Lutz

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the set of parameters $\{r_{i}\}$ that provide the energy distribution of pure qutrits that evolve towards a distinguishable state at a finite time $\tau$, when evolving under an arbitrary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Francisco J. Sevilla , Andrea Valdés-Hernández , Alan J. Barrios

While playing an important role in the foundations of quantum theory, Quantum Speed Limits (QSL) have no role in discussions about the search for quantum gravity. We fill this gap by analysing what QSL arises when superposing spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-06 Nicola Pranzini , Lorenzo Maccone

Quantum mechanics imposes fundamental constraints known as quantum speed limits (QSLs) on the information processing speed of all quantum systems. Every QSL known to date comes from the restriction imposed on the evolution time between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 H. F. Chau

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 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…

We present a geometric optimization method for implementing quantum gates by optimally controlling the Hamiltonian parameters, with the goal of approaching the Mandelstam-Tamm Quantum Speed Limit (MT-QSL). Achieving this bound requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 F. Impens , D. Guéry-Odelin

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

We analyze state preparation within a restricted space of local control parameters between adiabatically connected states of control Hamiltonians. We formulate a conjecture that the time integral of energy fluctuations over the protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 Marin Bukov , Dries Sels , Anatoli Polkovnikov

The question of how fast a quantum state can evolve has attracted a considerable attention in connection with quantum measurement, metrology, and information processing. Since only orthogonal states can be unambiguously distinguished, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lev B. Levitin , Tommaso Toffoli

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 Bhatia-Davis theorem provides a useful upper bound for the variance in mathematics, and in quantum mechanics, the variance of a Hamiltonian is naturally connected to the quantum speed limit due to the Mandelstam-Tamm bound. Inspired by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Jing Liu , Zibo Miao , Libin Fu , Xiaoguang Wang

We study the maximum speed of quantum computation and how it is affected by limitations on physical resources. We show how the resulting concepts generalize to a broader class of physical models of computation within dynamical systems and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Benjamin Russell , Susan Stepney

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

We present a class of generalized entropic quantum speed limits based on $\alpha$-$z$-R\'{e}nyi relative entropy, a real-valued, contractive, two-parameter family of distinguishability measures. The quantum speed limit (QSL) falls into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Jucelino Ferreira de Sousa , Diego Paiva Pires

The notion of quantum speed limit (QSL) refers to the fundamental fact that two quantum states become completely distinguishable upon dynamical evolution only after a finite amount time, called the QSL time. A different, but related concept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-29 Pablo M. Poggi