Exact Entanglement-Depth Speed Frontier for Complete Quantum Charging
Abstract
Complete quantum charging provides a sharp setting in which to ask how much multipartite entanglement is forced by speed itself. For a closed -qubit battery evolving from to under a time-independent Hamiltonian, we exactly solve the pure-state depth-constrained speed problem. If the realized trajectory has entanglement depth at most , then the largest possible QSL-normalized rate is . Conversely, an observed rate certifies trajectory entanglement depth at least . The mechanism is block orthogonalization: under a fixed product partition, complete charging forces all blocks to orthogonalize simultaneously, and the quantum speed limit converts this counting constraint into the speed bound. Balanced cluster-flip evolutions saturate the bound, establishing an exact integer staircase frontier. Thus fast complete charging cannot be explained by many small independently charging blocks; in particular, crossing the threshold certifies, for , the generation of genuine -partite entanglement.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.16935,
title = {Exact Entanglement-Depth Speed Frontier for Complete Quantum Charging},
author = {Wenlong Sun and Gang Lu and Yuanfeng Jin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.16935},
year = {2026}
}