Physics: Quantum speed limit

Benjamin Russell, Susan Stepney

We study the maximum speed of quantum computation and how it is affected by limitations on physical resources. We show how the resulting concepts generalize to a broader class of physical models of computation within dynamical systems and introduce a specific algebraic structure representing these speed limits. We derive a family of quantum speed limit results in resource-constrained quantum systems with pure states and a finite dimensional state space, by using a geometric method based on right invariant action functionals on [Formula: see text]. We show that when the action functional is bi-invariant, the minimum time for implementing any quantum gate using a potentially time-dependent Hamiltonian is equal to the minimum time when using a constant Hamiltonian, thus constant Hamiltonians are time optimal for these constraints. We give an explicit formula for the time in these cases, in terms of the resource constraint. We show how our method produces a rich family of speed limit results, of which the generalized Margolus–Levitin theorem and the Mandelstam–Tamm inequality are special cases. We discuss the broader context of geometric approaches to speed limits in physical computation, including the way geometric approaches to quantum speed limits are a model for physical speed limits to computation arising from a limited resource.

Andreas H. Trabesinger

Shrobona Bagchi

Quantum speed limit is a fundamental speed limit for the evolution of quantum states. It is the single-most important interpretation of the time energy uncertainty relation. Recently the speed limit of quantum correlations have been proposed like the concurrence for pure quantum states. In this direction, we derive a speed limit bound for a quantum correlation named the concurrence for the generally mixed quantum states of two qubits. By this we mean that we find an expression for the minimum time required to reach a given value of entanglement starting from an arbitrary initial generally mixed state. We discuss the connection of the findings of this article in the interdisciplinary area of the condensed matter physics or the many body physics and quantum information science such as on the topic of Lieb-Robinson bound in a quantitative manner.

Durrani, Ijaz

Michael R. Frey

Arun Kumar Pati, Brij Mohan, Sahil +1 more

The traditional quantum speed limits are not attainable for many physical processes, as they tend to be loose and fail to determine the exact time taken by quantum systems to evolve. To address this we derive exact quantum speed limits for the unitary dynamics of pure-state quantum systems that outperform the existing quantum speed limits. Using these exact quantum speed limits, we can precisely estimate the evolution time for two- and higher-dimensional quantum systems. Additionally, for both finite- and infinite-dimensional quantum systems, we derive an improved Mandelstam-Tamm bound for pure states and show that this bound always saturates for any unitary generated by self-inverse Hamiltonians. Furthermore, we show that our speed limits establish an upper bound on the quantum computational circuit complexity and yield a tighter quantum Cramér-Rao bound. These results will have a significant impact on our understanding of quantum physics as well as rapidly developing quantum technologies, such as quantum computing, quantum control, and quantum batteries.