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arXiv:2303.07415 · Physical Review A

Fundamental speed limits on entanglement dynamics of bipartite quantum systems

Vivek Pandey, Swapnil Bhowmick, Brij Mohan, S Sohail, Ujjwal Sen

Published Nov 14, 2024• 8 citations
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Abstract

The speed limit on entanglement is defined as the maximal rate at which entanglement can be generated or degraded in a physical process. We derive the speed limits on entanglement, using the relative entropy of entanglement and trace-distance entanglement, for unitary and arbitrary quantum dynamics, where we assume that the dynamics of the closest separable state can be approximately described by the closest separable dynamics of the actual dynamics of the system. For the unitary dynamics of isolated bipartite systems which are described by pure states, the rate of entanglement production is bounded by the product of fluctuations of the system's driving Hamiltonian and the surprisal operator, with an additional term reflecting the time-dependent nature of the closest separable state. Removing restrictions on the purity of the input and on the unitarity of the evolution, the two terms in the bound get suitably altered. Furthermore, we find a lower bound on the time required to generate or degrade a certain amount of entanglement by arbitrary quantum dynamics. We demonstrate the tightness of our speed limits on entanglement by considering quantum processes of practical interest.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.110.052420

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