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Finding minimal time and establishing the structure of the corresponding optimal controls which can transfer a given initial state of a quantum system into a given target state is a key problem of quantum control. In this work, this problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 L. V. Lokutsievskiy , A. N. Pechen , M. I. Zelikin

Even if a logical network consists of thermodynamically reversible gate operations, the computation process may have high dissipation rate if the gate implementation is controlled by external clock signals. It is an open question whether…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik Janzing , Thomas Beth

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

New exact results about the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open quantum systems at arbitrary timescales are obtained by considering all possible variations of initial conditions of a system, its environment, and correlations between them.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Paul M. Riechers , Mile Gu

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

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

We derive algebraic bounds on achievable rates for quantum state transfer and entanglement generation in general quantum systems. We apply these bounds to graph-based models of local quantum spin systems to obtain speed limits on these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Jeffrey M. Epstein , K. Birgitta Whaley

We prove that the time required for sustained information scrambling in any Hamiltonian quantum system is universally at least logarithmic in the entanglement entropy of scrambled states. This addresses two foundational problems in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Amit Vikram , Laura Shou , Victor Galitski

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

Qubit reset is crucial in quantum technology and is typically achieved by coupling the qubit to a dissipative environment. However, the achievable speed and fidelity are limited by qubit-environment entanglement. We use exact tensor-network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Carlos Ortega-Taberner , Eoin O'Neill , Paul Eastham

We study the quantum speed limit time for a two-qubit system interacts with indepen- dent and common reservoir. The system is initially prepared in a class of X-structure density matrix, namely the extended Werner-like states (EWL). We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 N. Behzadi , A. Ektesabi , B. Ahansaz , E. Faizi

We extend the speed limit of a distance between two states evolving by different generators for quantum systems [K. Suzuki and K. Takahashi, Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 032016(R) (2020)] to the classical stochastic processes described by the master…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-31 Kazutaka Takahashi , Yasuhiro Utsumi

The Lindblad quantum master equation is one of the central approaches to the physics of open quantum systems. In particular, boundary driving enables the study of transport, where a steady state emerges in the long-time limit, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-20 Markus Kraft , Mariel Kempa , Jiaozi Wang , Robin Steinigeweg

We study relaxation times, also called mixing times, of quantum many-body systems described by a Lindblad master equation. We in particular study the scaling of the spectral gap with the system length, the so-called dynamical exponent,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-30 Marko Znidaric

Counter-diabatic driving protocols were proposed as a means to do fast changes in the Hamiltonian without exciting transitions. Such driving in principle allows one to realize arbitrarily fast annealing protocols or implement fast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Dries Sels , Anatoli Polkovnikov

What is the minimal time until a quantum system can exhibit genuine quantum features? To answer this question we derive quantum speed limits for two-time correlation functions arising from statistics of measurements. Generally, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Sagar Silva Pratapsi , Sebastian Deffner , Stefano Gherardini

Setting the minimal-time bound for a quantum system to evolve between two distinguishable states, the quantum speed limit (QSL) characterizes the latent capability in speeding up of the system. It has found applications in determining the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Wei Wu , Jun-Hong An

Quantum computers have recently become available as noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. Already these machines yield a useful environment for research on quantum systems and dynamics. Building on this opportunity, we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Marcel Cech , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

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 provide upper bound on the maximal rate at which irreversible quantum dynamics can generate entanglement in a bipartite system. The generator of irreversible dynamics consists of a Hamiltonian and dissipative terms in Lindblad form. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Anna Vershynina