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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

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians play a crucial role in describing open quantum systems and nonequilibrium dynamics. In this paper, we derive trade-off relations for systems governed by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, focusing on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Tomohiro Nishiyama , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

The quantum speed limit sets a bound on the minimum time required for a quantum system to evolve between two states. For open quantum systems this quantity depends on the dynamical map describing the time evolution in presence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-11 Jose Teittinen , Henri Lyyra , Sabrina Maniscalco

We propose a quantum state distance and develop a family of geometrical quantum speed limits (QSLs) for open and closed systems. The QSL time includes an alternative function by which we derive three QSL times with particularly chosen…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Zi-yi Mai , Zheng Liu , Chang-shui Yu

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

The quantum speed limit sets a fundamental restriction on the evolution time of quantum systems. We explore the relationship between quantum imaginarity and the quantum speed limit by utilizing measures such as relative entropy, trace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Dong-Ping Xuan , Zhong-Xi Shen , Wen Zhou , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

We derive Margolus-Levitin and Mandelstamm-Tamm type bound on the quantum speed limit time for the creation and decay of quantum correlations by an amount in a quantum system evolving under the influence of its ambient environment. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 K. G Paulson , Subhashish Banerjee

Quantum speed limit is bound on the minimum time a quantum system requires to evolve from an initial state to final state under a given dynamical process. It sheds light on how fast a desired state transformation can take place which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Vivek Pandey , Divyansh Shrimali , Brij Mohan , Siddhartha Das , Arun Kumar Pati

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

Non-classical features of quantum systems can degrade when subjected to environment and noise. Here, we ask a fundamental question: What is the minimum amount of time it takes for a quantum system to exhibit non-classical features in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Divyansh Shrimali , Swapnil Bhowmick , Arun Kumar Pati

Quantum speed limit is a fundamental speed limit for the evolution of quantum states. It is the single-most important interpretation of the time energy uncertainty relation. Recently the speed limit of quantum correlations have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Shrobona Bagchi

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

The speed limit provides an upper bound for the dynamical evolution time of a quantum system. Here, we introduce the notion of quantum acceleration limit for unitary time evolution of quantum systems under time-dependent Hamiltonian. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Arun Kumar Pati

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

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

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

Nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation has been proposed as a method to implement quantum logic gates with robustness comparable to that of adiabatic holonomic gates but with shorter execution times. In this paper, we establish an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Ole Sönnerborn

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

The resource theory of asymmetry is a framework for classifying and quantifying the symmetry-breaking properties of both states and operations relative to a given symmetry. In the special case where the symmetry is the set of translations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Iman Marvian , Robert W. Spekkens , Paolo Zanardi

The Mandelstam-Tamm and Margolus-Levitin quantum speed limits are two well-known evolution time estimates for isolated quantum systems. These bounds are usually formulated for fully distinguishable initial and final states, but both have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Niklas Hörnedal , Ole Sönnerborn