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Recently, the notion of a quantum acceleration limit has been proposed for any unitary time evolution of quantum systems governed by arbitrary nonstationary Hamiltonians. This limit articulates that the rate of change over time of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Carlo Cafaro , Walid Redjem , Paul M. Alsing , Newshaw Bahreyni , Christian Corda

We present explicit evaluations of quantum speed limit times pertinent to the Markovian dynamics of an open continuous-variable system. Specifically, we consider the standard setting of a cavity mode of the quantum radiation field weakly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Paulina Marian , Tudor A. Marian

We use geometric concepts originally proposed by Anandan and Aharonov to show that the Farhi-Gutmann time optimal analog quantum search evolution between two orthogonal quantum states is characterized by unit efficiency dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Carlo Cafaro , Shannon Ray , Paul M. Alsing

Evolution time of a qubit under a Hamiltonian operation is one of the key issues in quantum control, quantum information processing and quantum computing. It has a lower bound in Hermitian system, which is limited by the coupling between…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Pengfei Lu , Teng liu , Yang Liu , Xinxin Rao , Qifeng Lao , Hao Wu , Feng Zhu , Le Luo

We present a general formalism based on the variational principle for finding the time-optimal quantum evolution of mixed states governed by a master equation, when the Hamiltonian and the Lindblad operators are subject to certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 A. Carlini , A. Hosoya , T. Koike , Y. Okudaira

Recently, Bender et al. have considered the quantum brachistochrone problem for the non-Hermitian $\cal PT$-symmetric quantum system and have shown that the optimal time evolution required to transform a given initial state $|\psi_i\rangle$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-07 Alexander I. Nesterov

We present a general framework for finding the time-optimal evolution and the optimal Hamiltonian for a quantum system with a given set of initial and final states. Our formulation is based on the variational principle and is analogous to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Carlini , Akio Hosoya , Tatsuhiko Koike , Yosuke Okudaira

We introduce a novel approach for estimating the spectrum of quantum many-body Hamiltonians, and more generally, of Hermitian operators, using quantum time evolution. In our approach we are evolving a maximally mixed state under the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Kaelyn J. Ferris , Zihang Wang , Itay Hen , Amir Kalev , Nicholas T. Bronn , Vojtech Vlcek

Geometric effects make evolution time vary for different evolution curves that connect the same two quantum states. Thus, it is important to be able to control along which path a quantum state evolve to achieve maximal speed in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-01 Ole Andersson , Hoshang Heydari

The question of how fast a quantum state can evolve is considered. Using the definition of squared speed based on the Euclidean distance given in [Phys. Rev. Research, {\bf 2}, 033127 (2019)], we present a systematic framework to obtain the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Ashraf Naderzadeh-ostad , Seyed Javad Akhtarshenas

Quantum speed limit (QSL) is the study of fundamental limits on the evolution time of quantum systems. For instance, under the action of a time-independent Hamiltonian, the evolution time between an initial and a final quantum state obeys…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 H. F. Chau , Wenxin Zeng

For any pair of quantum states, an initial state |I> and a final quantum state |F>, in a Hilbert space, there are many Hamiltonians H under which |I> evolves into |F>. Let us impose the constraint that the difference between the largest and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-04-25 Carl M. Bender

Given a quantum Hamiltonian and its evolution time, the corresponding unitary evolution operator can be constructed in many different ways, corresponding to different trajectories between the desired end-points. A choice among these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 Apoorva Patel

A condition on the Hamiltonian of a time-dependent quantum mechanical system is derived which, if satisfied, implies optimal adiabaticity (defined below). The condition is expressed in terms of the Hamiltonian and in terms of the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 R. MacKenzie , M. Pineault , L. Renaud-Desjardins

We present a general theoretical framework for finding the time-optimal unitary evolution of the quantum systems when the Hamiltonian is subject to arbitrary constraints. Quantum brachistochrone (QB) is such a framework based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Hiroaki Wakamura , Tatsuhiko Koike

On a two-level quantum system driven by an external field, we consider the population transfer problem from the first to the second level, minimizing the time of transfer, with bounded field amplitude. On the Bloch sphere (i.e. after a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ugo Boscain , Paolo Mason

Recently Bender, Brody, Jones and Meister found that in the quantum brachistochrone problem the passage time needed for the evolution of certain initial states into specified final states can be made arbitrarily small, when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paulo E. G. Assis , Andreas Fring

The optimal implementation of quantum gates for closed $N$-qubit systems is one of the key challenges for practical realization of many quantum information processing tasks. In the present article, based on the generalized Bloch vectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Elena R. Loubenets , Sergey Kuznetsov

For both unitary and open qubit dynamics, we compare asymmetry monotone-based bounds on the minimal time required for an initial qubit state to evolve to a final qubit state from which it is probabilistically distinguishable with fixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 T. J. Volkoff , K. B. Whaley

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating the time evolution generated by any bounded, time-dependent operator $-A$ with non-positive logarithmic norm, thereby serving as a natural generalization of the Hamiltonian simulation problem.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Guang Hao Low , Rolando D. Somma