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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…

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For a quantum system governed by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, we studied the problem of obtaining an optimum Hamiltonian that generates nonunitary transformations of a given initial state into a certain final state in the smallest time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-15 Alexander I Nesterov

Optimal realizations of quantum technology tasks lead to the necessity of a detailed analytical study of the behavior of a $d$-level quantum system (qudit) under a time-dependent Hamiltonian. In the present article, we introduce a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Elena R. Loubenets , Christian Käding

We derive a sharp bound as the quantum speed limit (QSL) for the minimal evolution time of quantum open systems in the non-Markovian strong-coupling regime with initial mixed states by considering the effects of both renormalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Xiangyi Meng , Chengjun Wu , Hong Guo

It is shown how any Lindbladian evolution with selfadjoint Lindblad operators, either Markovian or nonMarkovian, can be understood as an averaged random unitary evolution. Both mathematical and physical consequences are analyzed. First a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Salgado , J. L. Sanchez-Gomez

The analysis of the time evolution of unstable states which are linear superposition of other, observable, states can, in principle, be carried out in two distinct, non-equivalent ways. One of the methods, usually employed for the neutral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Marek Nowakowski

We present a method for obtaining a hierarchy of rigorous bounds on the time-evolution of a quantum mechanical system from an arbitrary initial state, systematically generalizing Mandelstam-Tamm-like relations. For any fixed level in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Scott Lawrence , Brian McPeak , Duff Neill

Fast and reliable manipulation with qubits is fundamental for any quantum technology. The implementation of these manipulations in physical systems is the focus of studies involving optimal control theory. Realistic physical devices are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Haoran Sun , Michael Galperin

A non-Hermitian operator with a real spectrum and a complete set of eigenvectors may serve as the Hamiltonian operator for a unitary quantum system provided that one makes an appropriate choice for the defining inner product of the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Mostafazadeh

We present a general approach to derive Lindblad master equations for a subsystem whose dynamics is coupled to dissipative bosonic modes. The derivation relies on a Schrieffer-Wolff transformation which allows to eliminate the bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Simon B. Jäger , Tom Schmit , Giovanna Morigi , Murray J. Holland , Ralf Betzholz

We show that quantum nondemolition (QND) measurements can be used to realize measurement-based imaginary time evolution. In our proposed scheme, repeated weak QND measurements are used to estimate the energy of a given Hamiltonian. Based on…

Thermal state preparation is a central challenge in the simulation of quantum many-body systems. Yet, provably efficient algorithms for this task were only introduced recently [Chen et al. Nature 646, 561 (2025)]. These algorithms are based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Christopher Ong , S. A. Parameswaran , Benedikt Placke , Dominik Hahn

The simulation of quantum dynamics calls for quantum algorithms working in first quantized grid encodings. Here, we propose a variational quantum algorithm for performing quantum dynamics in first quantization. In addition to the usual…

Given a generic time-dependent many-body quantum state, we determine the associated parent Hamiltonian. This procedure may require, in general, interactions of any sort. Enforcing the requirement of a fixed set of engineerable Hamiltonians,…

We present an effective operator formalism for open quantum systems. Employing perturbation theory and adiabatic elimination of excited states for a weakly driven system, we derive an effective master equation which reduces the evolution to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 Florentin Reiter , Anders S. Sørensen

We study the problem of mapping an unknown mixed quantum state onto a known pure state without the use of unitary transformations. This is achieved with the help of sequential measurements of two non-commuting observables only. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Roa , M. L. Ladron de Guevara , A. Delgado , A. Klimov

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

The time evolution of an open quantum system is governed by the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindlad equation for the reduced density operator of the system. This operator is obtained from the full density operator of the composite system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Aleek Maity , V V Sreedhar

We establish a generic method to analyze the time evolution of open quantum many-body systems. Our approach is based on a variational integration of the quantum master equation describing the dynamics and naturally connects to a variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-29 Vincent R. Overbeck , Hendrik Weimer

This paper explores the use of laboratory closed-loop learning control to either fight or cooperate with decoherence in the optimal manipulation of quantum dynamics. Simulations of the processes are performed in a Lindblad formulation on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Feng Shuang , Herschel Rabitz