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arXiv:1409.4144

Quantum speed limits for Bell-diagonal states

Zhang, Ying-Jie, Han, Wei, Yun‐Jie Xia, Ke-Xia Jiang, Cao, Jun-Peng, Heng Fan

Published Sep 15, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

Bounds of the minimum evolution time between two distinguishable states of a system can help to assess the maximal speed of quantum computers and communication channels. We study the quantum speed limit time of a composite quantum states in the presence of nondissipative decoherence. For the initial states with maximally mixed marginals, we obtain the exactly expressions of quantum speed limit time which mainly depend on the parameters of the initial states and the decoherence channels. Furthermore, by calculating quantum speed limit time for the time-dependent states started from a class of initial states, we discover that the quantum speed limit time gradually decreases in time, and the decay rate of the quantum speed limit time would show a sudden change at a certain critical time. Interestingly, at the same critical time, the composite system dynamics would exhibit a sudden transition from classical to quantum decoherence.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1409.4144

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The minimal time a system needs to evolve from an initial state to its one orthogonal state is defined as the quantum speed limit time, which can be used to characterize the maximal speed of evolution of a quantum system. This is a fundamental question of quantum physics. We investigate the generic bound on the minimal evolution time of the open dynamical quantum system. This quantum speed limit time is applicable to both mixed and pure initial states. We then apply this result to the damped Jaynes-Cummings model and the Ohimc-like dephasing model starting from a general time-evolution state. The bound of this time-dependent state at any point in time can be found. For the damped Jaynes-Cummings model, when the system starts from the excited state, the corresponding bound first decreases and then increases in the Markovian dynamics. While in the non-Markovian regime, the speed limit time shows an interesting periodic oscillatory behavior. For the case of Ohimc-like dephasing model, this bound would be gradually trapped to a fixed value. In addition, the roles of the relativistic effects on the speed limit time for the observer in non-inertial frames are discussed.
Abstract Quantum theory sets a fundamental bound for the minimal time evolution between initial and final state of a system . This bound is called quantum speed limit time , which is used to quantify the speed of evolution of a quantum system. If quantum speed limit time decreases, the evolution keeps on increasing. In this paper, we study the effect of quantum speed limit time in terms of correlated and uncorrelated noise channels like amplitude damping and phase damping channel. We use maximally entangled mixed state as our initial state. We observe the behavior of quantum speed limit time under Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics. We prove that for the special class of our inital state and for the dynamical evolution of a system, there exist a link between quantum speed limit time and non-Markovianity. However, an interesting results were also observed regarding the tightness of bound in Markovian region. Our results shed light on the information back-flow between system and environment in terms of quantum evolution which is useful as a resource in quantum information processing task.
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Abstract 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 impact of initial coherence and the behaviour of coherence on their speed of evolution for both dephasing and dissipative processes. The role of the non-zero value of initial coherence under information backflow conditions for the non-unital dissipative process is revealed by the flow of quantum speed limit time ( τ QSL ). The trade-off between mixedness and coherence on the speed limit time reveals the nature of the quantum process the states undergo. The complementarity effect between mixedness and coherence is more prominent in the quantum non-unital dissipation process. The parametric trajectory of speed limit time vividly depicts the difference in the evolution of pure and mixed initial states, and this could be used to distinguish between the unital and non-unital channels studied in this work. Our investigation of quantum speed limit time on multi-qubit entangled X states reveals that τ QSL can be identified as a potential dynamical witness to distinguish multi-qubit states in the course of evolution.
The time needed by a quantum system to reach a state fully distinguishable from the original one provides a natural way of determining how fast the corresponding dynamical evolution is. This orthogonality time admits a lower bound, expressible in terms of the energy's expectation value and the energy's standard deviation, that yields a 'quantum speed limit'. Composite quantum systems need entanglement in order to achieve this limit. So far, most studies on the connection between entanglement and the quantum speed limit have focused on the case of non-interacting systems. The connection between quantum speed and entanglement is systematically investigated here for the case of a system of two interacting qubits, taking into consideration all possible initial states that evolve into an orthogonal one.