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Quantum decoherence is seen as an undesired source of irreversibility that destroys quantum resources. Quantum coherences seem to be a property that vanishes at thermodynamic equilibrium. Away from equilibrium, quantum coherences challenge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 César A. Rodríguez-Rosario , Thomas Frauenheim , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

The quantum speed limit (QSL) is the theoretical lower limit of the time for a quantum system to evolve from a given state to another one. Interestingly, it has been shown that non-Markovianity can be used to speed-up the dynamics and to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Jose Teittinen , Sabrina Maniscalco

Quantum coherence allows the computation of an arbitrary number of distinct computational paths in parallel. Based on quantum parallelism it has been conjectured that exponential or even larger speedups of computations are possible. Here it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Svozil

Discoveries of fundamental limits for the rates of physical processes, from the speed of light to the Lieb-Robinson bound for information propagation, often lead to breakthroughs in the our understanding of the underlying physics. Here we…

The emergence of irreversibility in physical processes, despite the fundamentally reversible nature of quantum mechanics, remains an open question in physics. This thesis explores the intricate relationship between quantum mechanics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Alberto Rolandi

We obtain an upper bound on the time available for quantum computation for a given quantum computer and decohering environment with quantum error correction implemented. First, we derive an explicit quantum evolution operator for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. Novais , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Harold U. Baranger

One of the fundamental physical limits on the speed of time evolution of a quantum state is known in the form of the celebrated Mandelstam-Tamm inequality. This inequality gives an answer to the question on how fast an isolated quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Sergio Albeverio , Alexander K. Motovilov

Despite intensive research, the physical origin of the speed-up offered by quantum algorithms remains mysterious. No general physical quantity, like, for instance, entanglement, can be singled out as the essential useful resource. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 Valentin Gebhart , Luca Pezzè , Augusto Smerzi

Temporal resolution is a critical figure of merit in quantum sensing. This study combines the distinguishable condition of quantum states with quantum speed limits to establish a lower bound on interrogation time. When the interrogation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Cong-Gang Song , Qing-yu Cai

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

We show that in any relativistic system, entanglement entropy obeys a speed limit set by the entanglement in thermal equilibrium. The bound is derived from inequalities on relative entropy with respect to a thermal reference state. Thus the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-10 Thomas Hartman , Nima Afkhami-Jeddi

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

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 describe quantum controllability under the influences of the quantum decoherence induced by the quantum control itself. It is shown that, when the controller is considered as a quantum system, it will entangle with its controlled system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fei Xue , S. X. Yu , C. P. Sun

Quantum fluctuations are fundamental in quantum technologies, affecting computing, sensing, cryptography, and thermodynamics. These include fluctuations in the variation of energy, charge, and other observables driven by interactions with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Thales Augusto Barbosa Pinto Silva , David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky

Quantum coherence has wide-ranging applications from quantum thermodynamics to quantum metrology, quantum channel discrimination and even quantum biology. Thus, detecting and quantifying coherence are two fundamental problems in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Zhao Ma , Zhou Zhang , Yue Dai , Yuli Dong , Chengjie Zhang

The effects of the measurement apparatus on quantum coherence are studied by considering a purely dephasing model of a qubit. The initial state is prepared from a thermal state of the whole system by performing a nonselective measurement on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Filippo Giraldi

Quantum coherence, the ability of a quantum system to be in a superposition of orthogonal quantum states, is a distinct feature of the quantum mechanics, thus marking a deviation from classical physics. Coherence finds its applications in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Najmeh Etehadi Abari , Andrey Rakhubovsky , Radim Filip

Existing quantum speed limits for controlled open quantum systems depend on the specified trajectory. For example, lower bounds on quantum annealing times in the presence of dissipation depend explicitly on the chosen annealing schedule.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 James B. Larsen , Tameem Albash , Alicia B. Magann , Christian Arenz

The speed limit of quantum state transfer (QST) in a system of interacting particles is not only important for quantum information processing, but also directly linked to Lieb-Robinson-type bounds that are crucial for understanding various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Casey Jameson , Bora Basyildiz , Daniel Moore , Kyle Clark , Zhexuan Gong