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The speed of quantum evolution is limited under finite energy resources. While most quantum speed limits (QSLs) are formulated in terms of quantum states, they can be extended to the evolution operator itself, and thus impose fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Hunter Nelson , Edwin Barnes

We discuss a class of quantum speed limits (QSLs) based on unified quantum ($\alpha,\mu$)-entropy for nonunitary physical processes. The bounds depend on both the Schatten speed and the smallest eigenvalue of the evolved state, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Diego Paiva Pires

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

Quantum mechanics dictates bounds for the minimal evolution time between predetermined initial and final states. Several of these Quantum Speed Limit (QSL) bounds were derived for non-unitary dynamics using different approaches. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Nicolás Mirkin , Fabricio Toscano , Diego A. Wisniacki

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

The quantum speed limit is a fundamental upper bound on the speed of quantum evolution. However, the actual mathematical expression of this fundamental limit depends on the choice of a measure of distinguishability of quantum states. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 Sebastian Deffner

We derive a Geometric quantum speed limit (QSL) for imaginary-time evolution, where the dynamics is governed by a non-unitary Schr\"{o}dinger equation. By introducing a cost function based on the angular distance between the normalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Kohei Kobayashi

Characterizing the most efficient evolution, the quantum speed limit (QSL) plays a significant role in quantum technology. How to generalize the well-established QSL from closed systems to open systems has attracted much attention. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Wei Wu , Jun-Hong An

The quantum speed limit (QSL) refers to the maximum speed of a quantum system to evolve from an initial state to its orthogonal states. The bound on the QSL for Hermitian systems, for example the Mandelstam-Tamm (MT) and Margolus-Levitin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhanxi Wang , Xiaozhe Hao , X. X. Yi

The quantum speed limit provides fundamental bound on how fast a quantum system can evolve between the initial and the final states. For the unitary evolution, the celebrated Mandelstam-Tamm (MT) bound has been widely studied for various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Dimpi Thakuria , Arun Kumar Pati

The minimum evolution time between multi-qubit quantum states is estimated for non-Markovian quantum channels. We consider the maximally coherent pure and mixed states as well as multi-qubit $X$ states as initial states and discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 K. G. Paulson , Subhashish Banerjee

We introduce action quantum speed limits (QSLs) as a family of bounds on the minimal time to connect two states that, unlike the usual geometric approach, crucially depend on how the path is traversed, i.e. on the instantaneous speed. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Eoin O'Connor , Giacomo Guarnieri , Steve Campbell

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

The traditional quantum speed limits are not attainable for many physical processes, as they tend to be loose and fail to determine the exact time taken by quantum systems to evolve. To address this, we derive exact quantum speed limits for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-30 Arun K. Pati , Brij Mohan , Sahil , Samuel L. Braunstein

The quantum speed limit (QSL), or the energy-time uncertainty relation, gives a fundamental speed limit for quantum dynamics. Recently, Kieu [arXiv:1702.00603] derived a new class of QSL which is not only formal but also suitable for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-26 Manaka Okuyama , Masayuki Ohzeki

The pace of evolution of physical systems is fundamentally constrained by quantum speed limits (QSL), which have found broad applications in quantum science and technology. We consider the speed of evolution for quantum systems undergoing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Luis Pedro García-Pintos , Adolfo del Campo

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

Quantum speed limit (QSL) is the lower bound on the time required for a state to evolve to a desired final state under a given Hamiltonian evolution. Three well-known QSLs exist Mandelstam-Tamm (MT), Margolus-Levitin (ML), and dual ML…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 M Suman , S. Aravinda , Ranjan Modak

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

Quantum speed limit (QSL) defines the theoretical upper bound on how fast a quantum system can evolve between states. It imposes a fundamental constraint on the rate of quantum information processing. For a relativistic spin-up electron in…