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arXiv:2410.08514 · Physical Review A

Quantum speed limit in terms of coherence variations

Zi-yi Mai, Chang‐shui Yu

Published Oct 22, 2024• 11 citations
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Abstract

Coherence is the most fundamental quantum resource in quantum information processing. How fast a physical system gets coherence or decoherence is a critical ingredient. We present an attainable quantum speed limit based on the variation of quantum coherence subject to a dynamical process. It indicates that for a two-dimensional quantum state, one can always find corresponding dynamics driving it to evolve along the geodesic to another state with certain coherence variation. As applications, we study the coherence quantum speed limits of the dephasing and dissipative dynamics. It is shown that the dephasing dynamics can saturate our coherence quantum speed limit, and the decoherence of the state with identical populations will be faster than others. However, the dissipative dynamics have the opposite behavior. In addition, we illustrate a stronger tightness of our bound for the mentioned dynamics by comparison.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.110.042425

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