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The generic bound of quantum speed limit time (the minimal evolution time) for a qubit system interacting with structural environment is investigated. We define a new bound for the quantum speed limit. It is shown that the non-Markovianity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 Shao-xiong Wu , Yang Zhang , Chang-shui Yu , He-shan Song

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

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

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 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

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

In this work, we consider the fundamental task of quantum state certification: given copies of an unknown quantum state $\rho$, test whether it matches some target state $\sigma$ or is $\epsilon$-far from it. For certifying $d$-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Chirag Wadhwa , Sitan Chen

The minimum time required for a quantum system to evolve from an arbitrary initial state to its orthogonal state is known as the quantum speed limit (QSL) time. In this work, we consider the model in which a single qubit moves inside a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Maryam Hadipour , Soroush Haseli , Hazhir Dolatkhah , Saeed Haddadi

We derive a new quantum speed limit (QSL) for open quantum systems governed by Markovian dynamics. By analyzing the time derivative of the Bures angle between the initial pure state and its time-evolved state, we obtain an analytically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Kohei Kobayashi

We present a characterization of the Hamiltonians that generate optimal-speed unitary time evolution and the associated dynamical trajectory, where the initial states are either pure states or quasi-pure quantum states. We construct the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 John A. Mora Rodríguez , Brian Grajales , Marcelo Terra Cunha , Lino Grama

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

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 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

The optimal quantum control theory is employed to determine electric pulses capable of producing quantum gates with high fidelity (higher than 0.9997). Particularly, these quantum gates were chosen to perform the permutation algorithm (Z.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 C. M. Rivera-Ruiz , E. F. de Lima , F. F. Fanchini , V. Lopez-Richard , L. K. Castelano

Quantum speed limits are the boundaries that define how quickly one quantum state can transform into another. Instead of focusing on the transformation between pairs of states, we provide bounds on the speed limit of quantum evolution by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Abolfazl Farmanian , Vahid Karimipour

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 indicates the maximal evolution speed of the quantum system. In this work, we determine speed limits on the informational measures, namely the von Neumann entropy, maximal information, and coherence of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 Brij Mohan , Siddhartha Das , Arun Kumar Pati

Probabilistic quantum state transformations can be characterized by the degree of state separation they provide. This, in turn, sets limits on the success rate of these transformations. We consider optimum state separation of two known pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Emilio Bagan , Vadim Yerokhin , Andi Shehu , Edgar Feldman , Janos A. Bergou

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

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