ANALYSIS OF LOWER BOUNDS FOR QUANTUM CONTROL TIMES AND THEIRRELATION TO THE QUANTUM SPEED LIMIT

Limitations to the speed of evolution of quantum systems, typically referred to as quantum speed limits (QSLs), have important consequences for quantum control problems. However, in its standard formulation, is not straightforward to obtain meaningful QSL bounds for time-dependent Hamiltonians with...

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Main Author: P. M. Poggi
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: CEILAP-UNIDEF-CONICET-CITEDEF 2020-04-01
Series:Anales (Asociación Física Argentina)
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Online Access:https://anales.fisica.org.ar/index.php/analesafa/article/view/2254/2581
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Summary:Limitations to the speed of evolution of quantum systems, typically referred to as quantum speed limits (QSLs), have important consequences for quantum control problems. However, in its standard formulation, is not straightforward to obtain meaningful QSL bounds for time-dependent Hamiltonians with unknown control parameters. In this paper we present a short introductory overview of quantum speed limit for unitary dynamics and its connection to quantum control. We then analyze potential methods for obtaining new bounds on control times inspired by the QSL. We finally extend the work in [Poggi, Lombardo and WisniackiEPL104 40005 (2013)] by studying the properties and limitations of these new bounds in the context of a driven two-level quantum system.
ISSN:0327-358X
1850-1168